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In this video by VernissageTV correspondent Ania Ejsmont Pawel Janicki tells us about his recent installation, Oceanus. This work is an approach to non-linear narration. The idea of the work, on the levels of structure and story, refers to the concept of navigating the sea. Oceanus is inspired by medieval text Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis [...]

For it’s 3rd edition in Paris, DiVA Digital & Video Art Fair moved to a new location, the Louvre des Antiquaires in the middle of Paris. For the fair organizers, one of the most interesting aspect is the juxtaposition of Video and Digital Art with Antiquities. DiVA has also chosen new dates, now running concurrently [...]

Lenbachhaus Kunstbau presents an exhibition with works by Monica Bonvicini and Tom Burr. Monica Bonvicini (*1965 in Venice, lives in Berlin) and Tom Burr (*1963 in New Haven, Connecticut, lives in New York) share an interest in the functional purposes of social spaces and their psychological, social and gender-specific conventions. This mutual interest manifests itself [...]

Daniel von Sturmer represents Australia at the 52nd International Art Exhibition, the Biennale di Venezia 2007. Daniel von Sturmer was born 1972 in Auckland, New Zealand, he lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. The work he presents at the Australian Pavilion is very aesthetic and elegant. Or as the press release puts it: “With The [...]

During Art Basel Miami Beach Max Protetch Gallery and the Center for Visual Communication presented “A Eating Phylosophy”, a solo exhibition by the New York-based artist Mike Cloud. Held at the 5’000 square foot project exhibition space next door to the Margulies Collection in the Wynwood District, the show featured new paintings of two types: [...]

Since last year, we have been following the development of an ambitious project on the Caribbean island Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is the project of Dr. Cem Kinay, Chairman and CEO of the real estate development group O Property Collection. Kinay purchased the 560 acre island (part of the Turks and Caicos archipelago) and commissioned [...]

Madelon Vriesendorp is a Dutch artist best known as one of the co-founders of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in the early 1970s (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis). She is most famous for the painting “Flagrant Delit” which was the cover illustration of Delirious New York, the book that Rem Koolhaas [...]

The Canadian Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, presents Philip Beesley’s Hylozoic Ground, an immersive, interactive environment made of lightweight digitally-fabricated component fitted with meshed microprocessors and sensors. VernissageTV met with Philip Beesley on one of the preview days of the Biennale. In this interview, the [...]

Together with Jan Kaplicky Amanda Levete heads Future Systems, an architectural and design practice based in London. Future Systems realized many prestigious projects such as retails designs for Comme des Garçons in New York, Tokyo and Paris and the Selfridges department store in Birmingham. For Established & Sons Amanda Levete designed the sofa “Chester” and [...]

On March 1, 2011, the Museo Soumaya in Mexico City opened the doors of its new building with an inaugural event. The Museo Soumaya is a private art museum that was founded in 1994 by the Carlos Slim Foundation. It houses art collected by billionaire Carlos Slim and his late wife Soumaya. The collection includes [...]

Among the companies which exhibited at the Designers’ Saturday were firms like Alias, B&B Italia, Corian, Création Baumann, Delta Light, Girsberger, Glas Trösch, Hector Egger Holzbau, Lista, Moroso, Nils Holger Moormann, Ruckstuhl, USM, Vitra, and Zumtobel. Designers’ Saturday, Langenthal / Switzerland, November 4, 2006. Part 2/2. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download video [...]

Part 2 of the interview with Laurence Desarzens. This year’s festival featured a short film program, Feature Films about football and graffiti resp., an overview of motion graphics and broadcast design, retrospectives on Traktor, music videos and much more. For more information visit: Resfest Switzerland, Resfest International, Res Mag. November 27, 2005. Part 2/2 of [...]

The Design Miami satellite exhibition Architecting the Future: Buckminster Fuller & Lord Norman Foster in Miami’s Design District is dedicated to two iconic inventions by architect, designer and inventor Buckminster Fuller: the Fly’s Eye Dome and the Dymaxion 4 car. In 1961, the Fly’s Eye Dome was envisioned by Fuller as a fully functional, air [...]

“Luigi Colani is a great maverick of 20th Century design. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has placed organic design firmly on the contemporary agenda, producing biodynamic designs for cars, boats, planes, ceramics, consumer goods, as well as creating alternative futuristic concepts for the design of transport and architecture. A powerful influence on [...]

This is an interview with Hannes Koch, part of the design collective rAndom International (together with Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass). At this year’s Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presented rAndom International’s Audience. Audience is an installation conceived by rAndom International in collaboration with Chris O’Shea. It consists of around 64 head-size mirror objects. [...]