« | Home | »

Jan Mancuska at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

January 23, 2008

Jan Mancuska at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland - video
Ján Mančuška’s solo show at Kunsthalle Basel entitled “only those wild species that appeal to people will survive” presents a selection of his recent works. As the press release states, “his film and video installations involve specially designed architecture, built to contain a range of projection devices that create specific viewing conditions for each work.” In the installation “The Other” (2007), strips of film, presented hanging in front of light boxes, document an action photographed by Jan Mancuska in which a woman applies paint to all those parts of a man’s body that he cannot see himself. In a new video work, Mancuska alludes to one of the pioneering works of the avant-garde, Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude descending a staircase” (1912). Jan Mancuska was born 1972 in Bratislava, Slovakia. He lives and works in Prague. Impressions from the opening reception, January 17, 2008.
> Click image to watch Flash video in new movie window.
> Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file.
> Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

  • Share/Bookmark

Entry filed under: Basel, VernissageTV, art, best of, no comment | Comments Off

Tags:

Comments are closed.

  • Contemporary Art Search (Beta)

    VTV's custom search engine that searches the web with a focus on contemporary art (not perfect, yet - but we are working on it).
    Loading
  • Advertisements



    sponsorship via vernissagetv

  • Categories

  • Archives

  • Artists Archive

  • Most featured Artists

    Andy Warhol Carlos Amorales Carsten Höller Chen Zhen Christian Philipp Müller Christoph Büchel David Weinstein Fernando & Humberto Campana Franz West G.H. Hovagimyan Guerra de la Paz Herzog & de Meuron Imi Knoebel Isa Genzken Jean Prouvé Jeff Wall Jenny Holzer Jonathan Meese Joseph Beuys Justin Lieberman Konstantin Grcic Liam Gillick Lisa Kirk Luigi Colani Madelon Vriesendorp Mary Heilmann Matt Freedman Michael Beutler Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset Mike Meiré Oliver Ross Patrick Meagher Paul McCarthy Random International René Burri Robert Kusmirowski Sarah Oppenheimer Tal R Terence Koh Thomas Demand Tim Spelios Tobias Rehberger Wim Delvoye Zaha Hadid Zilvinas Kempinas
  • From the Archive: Art

    • Katharina Grosse: Shadowbox / Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin / Interview

      Katharina Grosse’s work is characterized by an anarchic impulse. Since the beginning of the 1990s, she has been working on a pictorial form that disregards fixed boundaries and hierarchies. For the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Katharina Grosse has created a new group of works. The title of the show, shadowbox, gives rise to multilayered associations: from [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • David Fried: Far From Equilibrium / Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York

      Gallery Sara Tecchia Roma New York starts the Fall season with works by David Fried (born 1962 in New York City). On display are his kinetic art pieces (tables with sound-activated spheres), and color photograms. “His hand-crafted “SELF ORGANIZING STILL LIFE” objects consist of interactive, sound-activated spheres, which “dance” in real-time in response to ambient [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Interview with Jason Rubell / Rubell Family Collection

      The Rubell Family Collection is one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. It is a permanent museum of the Rubells’ extensive collection of work dating from the 1960s to the present. The Collection began soon after Don and Mera Rubell were married in 1964. At a relatively young age, their son, [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Robert Gober at Schaulager, Basel / part 1/2

      With approximately forty sculptures, five large-scale installations, several groups of drawings and photographs Robert Gober: Work 1976-2007 at Schaulager Basel is by far the largest exhibition of Robert Gober’s work to date. For this retrospective the Schaulager team has taken great care to reconstruct installations – some for the first time since they were created [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Jonathan Meese: Johnny Come Home / Contemporary Fine Arts / part 1/2

      The current exhibition at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin presents new work by Jonathan Meese. The show’s title is “Johnny Come Home”, the exhibitions runs through October 28, 2006). Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin. Impressions from the opening reception on September 30, 2006, part 1/2. Related videos: Jonathan Meese / Mama Johnny / Deichtorhallen Hamburg / [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
  • From the Archive: Architecture

    • Peter Zumthor: Therme Vals

      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 [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Phaeno Science Center

      Phaeno is a new science museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. The Phaeno Science Center building is a work of Zaha Hadid in collaboration with Mayer Bährle architects. The museum has been officially inaugurated on November 24, 2005 by mayor Rolf Schnellecke, director Dr. Wolfgang Guthardt, the prime minister of Lower Saxony Christian Wulff, the president of [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Interview with Greg Lynn / Design Miami 2009

      For the 2009 edition of the design fair Design Miami, architect and designer Greg Lynn created the HSBC Lounge and a large installation for Swarovski Crystal Palace. Greg Lynn’s installation for Swarovski extends over 80 square metres and reaches over seven metres in heigh. The ‘walls’ and ‘ceiling’ are made of Swarovski crystal-encrusted suspended panels [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Interview with Joep van Lieshout, Atelier Van Lieshout

      On the occasion of the exhibition Design High at Louise Blouin Foundation in London VernissageTV met up with Joep van Lieshout, who presented the work Wombhouse in the show. In this video, Joep van Lieshout talks about his background, his work between the poles of art and design, how his work changed over the years, [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Mike + Doug Starn: Big Bambú

      At The Armory Show 2009 Wetterling Gallery showed two documentary videos and a digital rendering introducing a large installation called Big Bambú by the artists Mike and Doug Starn. The Starns’ Big Bambú is an artwork in the realm of architecture and performance, a massive, moving construction made out of countless bamboo poles that is [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
  • From the Archive: Design

    • Flausen at Tweakfest 2007

      On invitation of Flausen, VernissageTV presented the Art TV project at the Tweakfest 2007 in Zurich. According to the concept of “Flausen” the invited guests present their ideas within a timeframe of seven minutes. The following guests talked about their projects: Curdin Schneider: Camkiller, Chur; Andres Wanner: Pixelstorm, Zürich; Philipp Meier: GUGUS DADA Der Kunst [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Future Cars: College Exhibition at Hochschule Pforzheim University 2007 / Transportation Design / part 2

      Second part of our report on the Transportation Design exhibition of the Faculty of Design at Germany’s Hochschule Pforzheim University. We have a look at the projects “Sevenzero – an electric car based on the Lotus Super Seven”; “Rugged Feelings – Skoda goes to Monte Carlo” (Andreas Koglin); Luxury_Character_Extravagance” (Robert Maronde); a one seater vehicle [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Jean Prouvé at the Vitra Design Museum / Interview with Cathérine Prouvé

      With “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object” the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein presents the first comprehensive and systematic touring exhibition on the work of French designer and architect Jean Prouvé (1901-1984). VernissageTV talks with his daughter Cathérine Prouvé at the occasion of the opening reception of the exhibition. Vitra Design [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Naoto Fukasawa: Ideal House Cologne 07 / IMM Cologne

      Naoto Fukasawa’s cube at IMM Cologne “takes the visitor through a monumental and reduced arrangement of massive, room-high wallplates. The philosophical appearance of the furniture arrangement in his ideal house destances itself from the surroundings and radiates contemplative peace” (PR IMM Cologne). Statements by Naoto Fukasawa, IMM Cologne 2007, Ideal House Cologne 07. > Click [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
    • Alfredo Häberli Design Development – SurroundThings / Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / Interview

      Zurich-based Alfredo Häberli is one of Switzerland’s most renowned designers. The monograph exhibition at the Museum of Design Zurich presents Häberli’s work for the first time in a museum environment. Alfredo Häberli’s show “SurroundThings” provides an overview of the products and projects he realized for firms such as Alias, Iittala, Kvadrat or Moroso. In this [...]

      • Share/Bookmark
  • Upcoming Programming

  • Networks

    VTV at NetworkedBlogs VTV at NetworkedBlogs
  • VernissageTV Shops

    VTV Amazon Store US VTV Amazon Store EU VTV T-Shirts US Store VTV T-Shirts EU Store