First major publication about UBS’s renowned art collection
in nearly a decade – UBS Art Collection: To Art its Freedom,
published by Hatje Cantz – debuts at Art Basel in Miami
Beach
Accompanying display in UBS lounge will showcase seminal
works featured in the new UBS publication including those by
artists Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, Ed Ruscha, Tracey Emin, Sarah Morris
and Doug Aitken
UBS, global Lead Partner of Art Basel, celebrates the opening of
Art Basel in Miami Beach by releasing its first major print
publication on the UBS Art Collection in nearly a decade. UBS Art
Collection: To Art its Freedom is a 274-page, deluxe hardback
overview of the UBS Art Collection that includes a text on the
history of the collection written by Mary Rozell, Global Head UBS
Art Collection, as well as an essay by noted scholar Dieter
Buchhart. The volume features more than 200 color illustrations of
works by acknowledged masters such as Cy Twombly, Alighiero Boetti,
Mary Heilmann, Ed Ruscha and Christopher Wool alongside a number of
the collection’s recent acquisitions and works by emerging
artists.
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This publication, which will be launched at Art Basel in Miami
Beach, provides the inspiration for the selection of artworks on
view within the UBS lounge.
UBS has been an active contemporary art collector since the
1960s and takes a dynamic approach to its collection, continuing to
grow and evolve its holdings, acquiring works from around the globe
in accordance with the geographical reach of its business. The
range of artwork featured in the publication and in the UBS lounge
underscores the company’s long-standing commitment to contemporary
art.
As further evidence of our commitment, UBS marks almost a
quarter of a century of partnering with Art Basel this year,
supporting the organization on a global level and across all three
shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong.
“Our long-term partnership with Art Basel is at the core of our
broad involvement with contemporary art, as art collectors and art
partners,” stated John Mathews, Group Managing Director, Head of
Private Wealth Management and Ultra High Net Worth, UBS Wealth
Management Americas. “We are delighted to release this
extraordinary publication about the UBS Art Collection, which
visually captures our more than 60-year collecting history, for our
clients and guests in Miami Beach and we look forward to presenting
many of the works in our lounge for visitors to see firsthand.”
“UBS Art Collection: To Art its Freedom is the result of a
dynamic exchange of some of the most intriguing and influential
artists and ideas from the 1960s to the present,” said Mary Rozell,
Global Head UBS Art Collection. “The selection includes works that
offer insights into the history and evolution of the UBS Art
Collection along with new acquisitions that reflect the current
moment in contemporary art practice.”
UBS Art Collection: To Art its Freedom will be available for
purchase through publisher Hatje Cantz in January 2017. The 24 × 30
cm, portrait format, hardcover volume will be available in English
at www.hatjecantz.com as well as through select retail outlets.
In addition to its well-known artworks, the UBS Art Collection
also includes a notable group of 274 photographs dating from the
1850s to 1999 on the theme of “Land Use in America” that was
assembled by photographer, curator and critic John Szarkowski,
former director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art. Also on
view, in the UBS lounge are five works that have not been on public
display before, which were created by some of the most celebrated
names of modern photography: Robert Adams, Harry Callahan, William
Eggleston, Eadweard Muybridge and Robert Weston.
Notes to editors:
Significance of the UBS Art Collection
UBS has been an active contemporary art collector since the
1960s, a practice driven by the company’s long-held belief that the
art of today provides inspiration and challenge while encouraging
the innovative thinking that has shaped UBS’s corporate culture
over the last half century.
Today the UBS Art Collection is considered one of the largest
and most important corporate collections of contemporary art in the
world. Comprised of various individual art collections with unique
attributes that have been integrated over time through a series of
mergers and acquisitions – notably between Union Bank of
Switzerland, Swiss Bank Corporation and PaineWebber Inc. – the UBS
Art Collection currently includes more than 30,000 paintings, works
on paper, photography, sculpture, video and installations by
artists from 73 countries. The vast majority of these works are
displayed in more than 800 UBS offices around the world, serving as
an inspiration for employees and a platform for dialogue with
clients and the public.
UBS takes a dynamic approach to the collection, continuing to
grow and evolve its holdings, acquiring works from around the world
in accordance with the geographical reach of its business. UBS also
actively supports artists and galleries and actively lends works to
major art museums and cultural institutions for public
exhibitions.
About the publication
UBS Art Collection: To Art its Freedom will feature more than
200 color illustrations and includes the text: “UBS Art Collection:
A History and a Moment” written by Mary Rozell, Global Head UBS Art
Collection, which presents a history of the Collection, as well as
a view to its future. The central essay by noted art historian and
curator Dieter Buchhart entitled “To Art its Freedom: A Collection
as Emblem of Post-postmodern Polyphony” which contextualizes the
Collection within the framework of art history and makes
connections among the various featured works. The title of the
publication is a quotation from the famous words above the entrance
to the Secession Building in Vienna, “To Every Age its Art, to Art
its Freedom,” which, according to Buchhart, reflects the spirit of
the UBS Art Collection – one that endures and remains relevant,
independent of changing circumstances or frameworks.
UBS Art Collection at Art Basel in Miami Beach
This year’s selection of works from the UBS Art Collection in
the firm’s VIP lounge, inspired by the new publication, is entitled
UBS Art Collection: A History and a Moment. The selection showcases
30 artworks by 25 artists that offer insight into the history and
evolution of the Collection, as well as new acquisitions that
reflect the current moment in contemporary art. The display,
curated by Mary Rozell, Global Head UBS Art Collection, includes
seminal works by Alighiero Boetti (Mappa Del Mondo, 1978),
Carroll Dunham (Large Shape with Bands, 1989), Mary
Heilmann (Lupe’s Friends, 2001), Alex Katz (Red Coat,
1983), Sarah Morris (Midtown-PaineWebber (with Neon)),
1998), Ed Ruscha (Now Then As I Was About to Say, 1973),
Cy Twombly (Untitled, 1981) and Christopher Wool
(Untitled, 1989). These works provide the foundation and context
for a number of new acquisitions by Doug Aitken (FREE, 2016)
and Wolfgang Tillmans (Headlight (e), 2012, as well as by
emerging artists such as Sam Lewitt (Paper Citizen 4324,
2010) and Wardell Milan (The Flower No. 16, 2016). The
selection is intended to juxtapose compositions of rigorous
formality with painterly abstractions and create interplay between
conceptual photography and word art, resulting in a dynamic
exchange of some of the most intriguing and influential artists and
ideas from the 1960s to the present.
UBS Planet Art Lounge at Art Basel in Miami Beach
This year, UBS hosts the UBS Planet Art Lounge, a public space
in Hall D that will be open to all visitors throughout the duration
of the show, through 4 December. All guests are invited to
- Relax and enjoy complimentary
espresso;
- Explore UBS’s signature art news app,
Planet Art;
- Watch Facebook Live conversations with
art world leaders, conducted and produced by Artsy – the online
resource for art collecting and education – in partnership with
UBS;
- Watch the UBS Artcast to explore videos
and download a customized playlist of UBS’s contemporary art
projects, including:
- The Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art
Initiative, a program that creates direct access to contemporary
art and education on a global scale
- SI: Visions, UBS’s collaborative film
project with the Swiss Institute that shares engaging insight into
the work of some of today’s most forward-looking artists, including
some with work on view at Art Basel
- WOMEN: New Portraits, an international
tour of newly commissioned photographs by world-renowned
photographer Annie Leibovitz
UBS and contemporary art
UBS’s long and substantial record of patronage in contemporary
art enables clients and audiences to participate in the
international conversation about art and the global art world
through the firm’s global art platform. In addition to the UBS Art
Collection, considered one of the world’s largest and most
important corporate collections of contemporary art, UBS has an
extensive roster of contemporary art programs that include the
firm’s long-term support for the premier international Art
Basel shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong, for which UBS
serves as global Lead Partner; the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art
Initiative with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and a global
exhibition tour of WOMEN: New Portraits, an exhibition of
newly commissioned photographs by renowned photographer Annie
Leibovitz. These activities are complemented by a number of
regional partnerships with fine art institutions including
the Fondation Beyeler in Switzerland, Galleria d’Arte Moderna in
Milan, the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the Louisiana Museum
of Modern Art in Denmark, the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg and the Art
Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. UBS also provides
its clients with insight into the contemporary art world through
the free art news app UBS Planet Art, collaborations with
the Swiss Institute, and the online resource Artsy,
as well as through the UBS Arts Forum. For more information
about UBS’s commitment to contemporary art,
visit ubs.com/art.
UBS and Art Basel
The relationship between UBS and Art Basel began in 1994 when
the Swiss financial services firm began serving as lead sponsor for
the original edition of the show in Basel. In 1999, the partnership
was extended to include Art Basel’s Unlimited exhibition platform –
which enables artists to realize highly original and ambitious
projects – and, in 2002, the inaugural edition of Art Basel in
Miami Beach. In 2014, UBS became involved with Art Basel in Hong
Kong, officially assuming its current role as global Lead Partner
of Art Basel for all three of its acclaimed international venues.
In June 2016 it was announced that Art Basel and UBS would partner
to commission a comprehensive, new annual art-market report by
renowned cultural economist Clare McAndrew. The Art Basel and UBS
Global Art Market Report will be issued in March 2017 during Art
Basel in Hong Kong.
About Art Basel
Founded in 1970 by gallerists from Basel, Art Basel today stages
the world’s premier art shows for modern and contemporary art,
sited in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city
and region, each show is unique, as reflected in its participating
galleries, the artworks presented and the parallel programming
produced in collaboration with local institutions for each
edition.
In recent years, Art Basel’s art-world engagement has expanded
beyond art fairs. In 2014, Art Basel launched its Crowdfunding
Initiative, in collaboration with Kickstarter, which has helped
catalyze much-needed support for outstanding noncommercial art
projects worldwide and has helped pledge over USD 1.2 million to
creative projects all over the world. For Art Basel Cities,
launched in 2016, Art Basel will work with select partner cities to
develop vibrant and content-driven programs specific to the
individual city. Connecting them to the global art world through
Art Basel’s expertise and network, Art Basel Cities supports its
partner cities in developing their unique cultural landscape. The
first city Art Basel is partnering with for Art Basel Cities is
Buenos Aires. For further information, please visit
artbasel.com.
About UBS
UBS provides financial advice and solutions to wealthy,
institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as private
clients in Switzerland. The operational structure of the Group is
comprised of our Corporate Center and five business divisions:
Wealth Management, Wealth Management Americas, Personal &
Corporate Banking, Asset Management and the Investment Bank. UBS’s
strategy builds on the strengths of all of its businesses and
focuses its efforts on areas in which it excels, while seeking to
capitalize on the compelling growth prospects in the businesses and
regions in which it operates, in order to generate attractive and
sustainable returns for its shareholders. All of its businesses are
capital-efficient and benefit from a strong competitive position in
their targeted markets.
UBS is present in all major financial centers worldwide. It has
offices in 54 countries, with about 34% of its employees working in
the Americas, 35% in Switzerland, 18% in the rest of Europe, the
Middle East and Africa and 13% in Asia Pacific. UBS Group AG
employs approximately 60,000 people around the world.
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