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In July/August 2006 Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, presented two solo shows: Thomas Campbell: “Yep”, and Matt Leines: “The Promise of the North”. Impressions from the opening reception and short interviews with Matt Leines and the owner of the gallery, Bennett Roberts. Roberts & Tilton gallery, Los Angeles, July 15, 2006. By VTV correspondents Parichard [...]

The Bob van Orsouw Gallery presents the first larger solo exhibition by the Armenian artist Armen Eloyan (born 1966). Armen Eloyan became known to the Swiss public through his works on paper at the group exhibition “Villa Jelmini” (2006) in the Kunsthalle Bern. On display at Bob van Orsouw are works from the cycle “Comic-related [...]

Galerie Jamileh Weber presents Robert Rauschenberg: Spread and Scale and Darryl Pottorf: A Perspective. The selection of works by Robert Rauschenberg presented in this show are all works that the artist kept for his own collection. This has been made possible thanks to the long lasting and close friendship of Jamileh Weber with Robert Rauschenberg. [...]

Edwin’s Gallery from Jakarta, Indonesia has set up an exhibition of Indonesian Kinetic Art at Singapore’s international art fair Art Stage Singapore. Titled Mechan(aesthete)ics, the show presents kinetic work by Hardiman Radjab, Rudi Hendriatno, Bagus Pandega, and Heri Dono. While Dono and Radjab are pioneers of kinetic art in Indonesia, Hendriatno and Pandega represent the [...]

Sean Kelly Gallery presents a major exhibition of new work by artist Wolfgang Laib (born 1950 in Metzingen, Germany). It’s Wolfgang Laib’s first show since joining the gallery. The exhibition entitled “Without Time – Without Body – Without Place” is organized around one of Laib’s most important new, large-scale pollen and rice installations. On display [...]

The exhibition “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape”, curated in 1972 by Emilio Ambasz at the MoMA in New York was a huge success. The show featured a selection of work, theory and historical background of twelve Italian designers and architects at a peak of the Italian radical design movement of the 1960s, early 1970s: Archizoom, [...]

The Golden Lion for the Best Project of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2010 with the title “People Meet in Architecture” was given to Junya Ishigami and Associates for their installation “Architecture as Air: Study for Château la Coste”. The jury acknowledged the “unique and uncompromising vision of its author… [...]

Until November 9, 2008, the Central Park in New York hosts Chanel Mobile Art and the Chanel Contemporary Art Container by Zaha Hadid. The futuristic pavilion designed by Prizker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid presents changing installations of works by contemporary artists from all over the world. Among the participating artists are Tabaimo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Loris [...]

On the 14th January 2010, the Velux Stiftung presented the second Daylight-Award at 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 [...]

Interview with Frank Joss, initiator and director of the ArchitectureTalks. Frank Joss has been responsible for independently organising the architecture symposium with his team since 2004. With a new name and a new location, the first edition of the ArchitectureTalks Lucerne took place in 2005 in the Culture & Convention Centre Lucerne, designed by French [...]

Interview with Monica Pozzi about Resfest Swissmix. Swissmix is the selection for young Swiss filmmakers of Resfest Switzerland. Swissmix provides young Swiss talent with a professional platform and may work as a steppingstone to reach an international audience. This year’s participants have been Dominic Lahiff / GMD Three, Jonas Meier; Oliver Conrad (Kompost); Ramon & [...]

After Jeff Koons in 2008 and Xavier Veilhan in 2009, this year Takashi Murakami takes over the Château de Versailles. It’s Takashi Murakami’s first major retrospective in France. VernissageTV correspondent Christophe Ecoffet met the artist in the garden of the palace for an exclusive interview. On display in the 15 rooms of the Château and [...]

Beyond the Screen, the current exhibition at Gallery [DAM] Berlin, offers an insight into the world of “fabbing” – digital fabrication. Fabbing allows for the production of structures and surfaces exceeding the limits of digital mass production. By using specific software to control these tools, artists and designers are able to realize unimaginable complex objects. [...]

Piero Lissoni is one of the designers who have been commissioned to give the luxury resort Dellis Cay a shape. He has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 in Seregno, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Piero Lissoni lives and [...]

rAndom International is a London-based collective set up in 2002 by Stuart Wood, Flo Ortkrass and Hannes Koch. Their work explores the conflict between reinterpreting the cold nature of digital and the often hands-on approach of analogue. Most of their work is interactive with an intense curiosity applied to experimental processes. rAndom International have won [...]