American International Fine Art Fair Palm Beach 2010 / Highlights
According to the founders of International Fine Art Expositions (IFAE) and organizers of the American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF) David and Lee Ann Lester, a record 5,200 collectors attended the opening Vernissage of the fair at the Palm Beach County Convention Center on February 2, 2010. “The 2010 edition of AIFAF looks to be the most successful show in recent years,” said David Lester. “The numerous sales reported early in the show indicate that the nadir of the recession has passed and that collectors are once again feeling comfortable with purchasing excellent works of fine art from major dealers.” In this video Bettina Krogemann visits the booths of the German dealers Terminus, Numisart, Thomas and Brenske.
American International Fine Art Fair Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, USA. Highlights, February 3, 2010.
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February 8, 2010 | Entry filed under: VernissageTV, art, interview | 0
Beam me up / Plug.in Basel
The current exhibition at the new media art institution plug.in in Basel, Switzerland, presents the online project Beam me up. Beam me up is an online project that invites artists and authors from different countries to concern themselves with the concept of space in the form of art contributions and essays. Interpretations of the concept of space are here based on both pictures and texts, on artistic and philosophical models as well as on scientific experience. The project brings together works by artists such as Alec Finlay, Samuel Herzog, Esther Hunziker, Knowbotic Research, Marc Lee, Studer / van den Berg, and many others.
The online project Beam me up has been conceived by Reinhard Storz, Xcult.org. The architectural design of the exhibition has been developed by Morger + Dettli. More information about the project is available at www.iplugin.org and www.beam-me.net.
Beam me up at Plug.in Basel. Opening reception and statements by Reinhard Storz, Fortunat Dettli, and Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg, January 14, 2010.
Claire L. Evans on “Beam me up” at Rhizome.org.
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February 5, 2010 | Entry filed under: Basel, VernissageTV, art, interview | 0
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American International Fine Art Fair 2010 / Vernissage
The American International Fine Art Fair AIFAF in Palm Beach features international dealers representing all disciplines of fine art: classic Modernist and early Contemporary Art, antiquities, and jewelry. More than 80 galleries from over 13 countries are participating in the 14th edition of the fair. Impressions from the Vernissage preview party.
American International Fine Art Fair Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, USA. Vernissage, February 2, 2010.
PS: Special thanks to James Andrew!
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February 3, 2010 | Entry filed under: VernissageTV, art, no comment | 0
Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil Jona / Stürm Wolf Architects
At the presentation of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award presentation at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel, Switzerland, another honorary award was given to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects who realized a new (day-)light concept for the museum Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona. It’s an invention whereby the main structure of the building stays untouched. The jury states that “The building task is perceived as perfectly solved for an artspace; all the daylight is coming from the built annex on the roof, resulting in perfect exhibition light. It is perceived as a playful, unpretentious, intelligent and ‘fresh’ project.” In this video, Isa Stürm talks about the challenges the architects were facing in the course of conceiving and realizing the project.
Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil Jona / Stürm Wolf Architects.
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February 1, 2010 | Entry filed under: VernissageTV, architecture, interview | 0
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Moritz Waldemeyer & Ok Go
In April 2009 Design Miami and Fendi startet the Craft Punk project that built upon the Design Miami’s Design Performance program, which was intended to showcase “design in action” and to allow Design Miami visitors to get insight into the process underlying the creation of experimental design. For Design Miami 2009, the design fair presented a collaboration between tech-designer Moritz Waldemeyer and pop group Ok Go. Moritz Waldemeyer customized Gibson guitars with laser lights and Fendi materials. When played, the guitars’ lasers interact with a video wall and leave traces that illustrate the music in real time. The guitars become like musical paintbrushes. Ok Go performed during Design Miami 2009, after the show the guitars have been given to Ok Go to use on their tour.
Widely recognized as one of the most innovative and exciting designers of his generation, Moritz Waldemeyer, aged 34, was born in East Germany. He moved to London thirteen years ago, where he has trained as an engineer at Kings College and completed his Masters degree in 2001. Since then, Waldemeyer has collaborated with many of the world’s top architects and fashion designers including Ron Arad, Zaha Hadid and Hussein Chalayan. His work fuses technology, art, fashion and design.
Gaining wide popularity with their award- winning video featuring an elaborately choreographed routine on treadmills, Ok Go is a guitar-based rock band originally from Chicago and now residing in Los Angeles. The band is composed of Damian Kulash (lead vocals and guitar), Tim Nordwind (bass guitar and backing vocals), Dan Konopka (drums and percussion), and Andy Ross (keyboards, guitar and backing vocals). Ok Go is set to release their third studio album Of the Blue Colour of the Sky in January 2010.
Moritz Waldemeyer & Ok Go Design Performance at Design Miami 2009. Miami / USA, December 1, 2009.
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January 29, 2010 | Entry filed under: Design Miami, Miami, VernissageTV, design, no comment, remix | 0
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Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus / Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin
The Deutsche Guggenheim celebrates its 50th exhibition with a show that is dedicated to utopia as an inspiration for artistic creation and as a living model for artist collectives. The exhibition is titled “Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus” and brings together exceptional and rarely shown works by artists such as Kandinsky, Klee, and Mondrian. Utopia Matters introduces a selection of international artist communities. Through nine movements spanning 130 years many of the forms utopian artistic groups can assume are explored: the Primitifs, the Nazarenes, the Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris and Arts and Crafts, the Cornish Art Colony, Neo-Impressionism, De Stijl, the Bauhaus, and Russian Constructivism.
In this video, Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early-20th-Century Art at the Guggenheim Museum and curator of “Utopia Matters” talks about her motivation to conceive this exhibition, the reason why utopian groups flourished throughout the 19th century, and contemporary movements with utopian aspirations.
Utopia Matters at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin runs through April 11, 2010. The exhibition is accompanied by the Youtopic workshop. Together with professors Hans Höger and Dominik Harborth and designer Alin Köhler, students have developed interactive objects with which visitors to the exhibition can experiment. In addition, Chinese artist Cao Fei has created a multi-media installation for the Deutsche Guggenheim, a new version of her RMB City internet-based project, and Luca Buvoli has installed a banner on the façade of the exhibition hall.
More information on the topic and a conversation between Susan Cross, Curator at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, and Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early-20th-Century Art at the Guggenheim Museum and curator of “Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus” can be found on DB Artmag. The supporting program includes lectures, guided tours and special events such as a talk with Patrik Schumacher / Zaha Hadid Architects on February 9, 2010.
Utopia Matters: From Brotherhoods to Bauhaus / Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. Interview with curator Vivien Greene. January 22, 2010.
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January 27, 2010 | Entry filed under: Berlin, VernissageTV, art, interview | 0
Annelies Štrba: icons / Galerie Eigen + Art Berlin
For her solo exhibition at the gallery Eigen + Art in Berlin, Swiss artist Annelies Štrba extracts 111 Madonnas from their initially religious context, presents them as tiny pigment prints on canvas, and arranges them like mosaics side by side on the wall.
“Thereby the holly Madonna is no more the sacrificed mother giving birth to Jesus, but a transformation of her. Annelies Štrba took away her uniqueness, placed the prints like mosaics side by side and gave them a new aura. Facing the viewer as a mighty unity, he believes to be close to them. Nevertheless, he realises the impossibility of a true physical nearness to the pretty faces almost painfully by the reason that the conditional intensity of colour and light is destructed.” (excerpt from the press release). In addition to the 111 Madonnas, Annelies Štrba presents large-scale formats, parts from the cycle “Nyima”.
Annelies Štrba: icons / Galerie Eigen + Art Berlin. Opening reception, January 21, 2010.
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January 25, 2010 | Entry filed under: Berlin, VernissageTV, art, no comment | 0
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James Turrell: Skyspace Piz Uter
James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers to view the sky through an opening in the roof. Skyspace Piz Uter was set up on the initiative of the Walter A. Bechtler foundation and specifically developed for Hotel Castell in Zuoz. Häusler Contemporary negotiated and managed the project.
In this video, Gianfranco Schiavano of Häusler Contemporary talks about the characteristics of the project (in German language). James Turrell’s works for the “Skyspace” focus on the interaction between architectural internal space and natural external space by bringing the sky into the opening in the ceiling. In principle, the artist of Skyspace Piz Uter is concerned with “structural cuts” with openings completely above the line of the horizon and cut into the ceiling and roof. The impressive change in the sky and its colors can be appreciated during the transition from day to night.
James Turrell’s Skyspace Piz Uter won an honorary award in the Daylight-Award competition of Velux Stiftung. The “Skyspace Piz Uter” of James Turrell is considered by the jury as the most poetic project. “The artwork shows the essence of light in a building in an unrivalled consequence.” On the 14th January 2010, the Velux Foundation presented the second Daylight-Award in the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. The presentation was realized in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (DARDEN ETH), Zürich and the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum. Winner of the Daylight-Award 2010 is the Therme Vals of Peter Zumthor in Vals, Switzerland. Two honorary awards go to James Turrell for his Skyspace Piz Uter in Zuoz and to Isa Stürm Urs Wolf Architects for the Kunst(Zeug)Haus in Rapperswil, both in Switzerland. An additional honorary award goes to Prof. Anna Wirz-Justice. The Daylight-Award aims to encourage developers, planners and specialists to systematically use daylight in order to increase quality of life and energy efficiency. VernissageTV realized three short documentaries for Velux Stiftung about the awarded works. The videos are already available at the website of Velux Stiftung.
James Turrell: Skyspace Piz Uter, Zuoz, Switzerland.
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January 22, 2010 | Entry filed under: VernissageTV, architecture, interview | 0
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The Third Space
On December 3rd, during Design Miami 2009, Luminaire opened its showroom in Miami’s Design District. One of the highlights was the installation The Third Space conceived by 52 German interior design students. In this video, Sabine Trieloff talks with four of the students who created the installation during the opening of the exhibition at the Luminaire showroom.
The installation is meant as an experiment which combines the work of all three divisions the course „interior architecture“ at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich consists of (interior design, product design and designing in free space). To communicate the trans-disciplinary basic idea of the study course in full size, the students created an installation in order to make interior space sensible instead of just showing a retrospect of the students work. The project deals with sociological terms such as profiling, community or privacy and translates them into specific spacious situations. Is there any interior design without form, style and spirit of age? What are the real qualities of good design? How do interior corresponds with outdoor spaces? The students created the installation by their own hands during 16,870 hours of work with 1 292 300 zip ties.
The installation premiered in 2008 in Munich where it was shown at Pinakothek der Moderne and then traveled in new modification to Dresden (Ostrale 2008) and to Langenthal, Switzerland, where “The Third Space” won the Designers’ Saturday Award Best Stand Design. In 2009 it was already shown at gallery Aedes Berlin and Lothar Fischer Museum Neumarkt.
The Third Space, Luminaire showroom, Miami Design District. Opening reception and interview, December 3, 2009.
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January 21, 2010 | Entry filed under: Miami, VernissageTV, design, interview | 0
Silberkuppe: Old Ideas / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel
Silberkuppe is an independent space for contemporary art and culture located in Berlin. The gallery was founded by Dominic Eichler und Michel Ziegler. Since their inaugural opening in Spring 2008, Silberkuppe has initiated presentations, exhibitions, talks, screenings, music and performances. At the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, they present a selection of new, site-oriented productions from a diverse group of artists, titled “Old Ideas”. The show presents performative, sculptural and installative works by Phyllida Barlow, Dirk Bell, Gerry Bibby, Janette Laverrière, Shahryar Nashat und Josephine Pryde. Throughout the course of the exhibition, Silberkuppe will host a variety of social evenings and events.
From the press release: Phyllida Barlow (*1944, lives and works in London) usurps the architectural structure of the museum with her unique language of abstraction in a site specific installation “Hide”. Similarly, the artist Gerry Bibby (*1977, lives and works in Berlin) presents a landscape of spatial “citations” which were cast in concrete in his Berlin studio. With his new signage and sound work, Dirk Bell (*1969, lives and works in Berlin and London) taps the micro reverberations of light and sound emanated as a by-product of the built edifices of commerce. A new work from the Swiss artist Shahryar Nashat (*1975, lives and works in Berlin) directly involves the collection of the Kunstmuseum. Two sculptures by the Swiss artist Karl Geiser (1898 -1957) become the protagonists of Nashat’s specially produced film shot in the museum’s storage facilities. A reproduction of a two-part seating arrangement (1966) from the Swiss designer Janette Laverriére (*1909, lives and works in Paris) together with two eye- shaped coffee tables (1990) bearing the name “Black Eye”, represents the more discursive aspects of Silberkuppe agenda. Josephine Pryde (*1967, lives and works in Berlin and London) is showing new photographic works that transgress into a more sculptural medium.
In May 2009, Silberkuppe organised a two week programme with 17 international artists in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden as part of the ‘7 x 14’ exhibition series. More recently, Silberkuppe was invited by the Hayward Gallery in London to stage a project centered around the history of project-based independent and collective cultural production in a reunified Berlin. While continuing an active programme in their Berlin space, in 2010 Silberkuppe will also be mounting projects with the Kunsthall Bergen in Norway and Open Space at the Art Cologne.
Silberkuppe: Old Ideas, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel. Opening reception, January 15, 2010.
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January 20, 2010 | Entry filed under: Basel, VernissageTV, art, no comment | 0
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