For 'Choir,' Katharina Grosse Makes Art Basel Her Canvas

SummaryKatharina Grosse is the featured artist for this year's Messeplatz Project commission at Art Basel's marquee Swiss fair.Titled CHOIR, the immersive artwork wraps the fair entrance in blooms of magenta spray, presenting a powerful meditation on freedom and control against the clamor that awaits inside.On view through June 22, the piece revels in the ephemeral and otherwordly -- "as if a vast painting has flown through, landed briefly and left its residue behind," the artist described.Katha...