10 ARTISTS TO LOOK OUT FOR AT ART BASEL

LIU XIAODONG ESLITE GALLERY, TAIPEI One of the giants of Chinese contemporary art, Liu Xiaodong is renowned for his large-scale, neo-realist oil paintings of modern life in China (one example pictured above). Liu began receiving international attention in the early 2000s, when he produced a series of paintings depicting families who had been displaced by the construction of the enormous Three Gorges Dam. Since then, Liu has painted everything from communities reeling from the effects of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake to miners digging for jade in China’s northwest province of Xinjiang. EGON SCHIELE RICHARD NAGY, LONDON Austrian artist Egon Schiele might have died more than a century ago, but his work (pictured below) still feels strikingly modern. Schiele, best known for his sensuous, unapologetically erotic nude portraits, which often feature the sitter staring boldly out…