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In this video, Lenny Campello, owner of the gallery Alida Anderson Art Projects talks about the work of Tim Tate. At Art Santa Fe, the gallery is showing three pieces that are made of blown and cast glass and incorporate LCD screens (14″x6″x6″). Tim Tate is a mixed media sculptor based in Washington, DC. He [...]

Galerie Jan Wentrup participates for the second time in Liste – The Young Art Fair in Basel. Although the gallery is still very young, owner/director Jan Wentrup has already a lot of experience in the art business. Before opening his own gallery in 2004, he worked for several years for the gallery Contemporary Fine Arts [...]

Gallery Baer – space for modern art is a “The gallery’s main focus lies in painterly-interpreted paintings, objectively cool photography, and calculated installations with a definite potential to surprise.” (PR Galerie Baer). Tilman Bruhn (gallery assistant) talks about the gallery’s program and the artists presented at Preview Berlin. Among the artists represented are Theo Boettger, [...]

Kewenig Gallery presented Sandra Vasquez de la Horra in the “New Talents” section (formerly known as “Förderkoje”) of Art Cologne 2006. Wolfgang Schöddert talks about the gallery, its two venues in Cologne and Mallorca, and the work of Sandra Vasquez de la Horra. Art Cologne, November 2, 2006. > Click image to watch quicktime video [...]

Le Corbusier – The Art of Architecture is the current exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Le Corbusier (1887 – 1965) is probably the most influential architect of the 20th Century. The retrospective aims to address the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier’s work such an important point of [...]

A more contemplative view of Rudolf Stingel’s exhibition LIVE at Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin. The dominant element of the exhibition is a giant carpet, that covers the entire floor of Mies van der Rohe’s landmark building New National Gallery. The images have been taken while the press conference was held on the lower floor of the [...]

In this video, VernissageTV takes a look at the exhibition “Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei: A Collaborative Project” at the contemporary art space Para/Site in Hong Kong Island. Para/Site Art Space has invited Ai Weiwei and Vito Acconci to create a work together. Both artists have never met before, so the collaborative process is kind [...]

Since May 24, 2008 the city Bolzano / Bozen in the north of Italy is proud to present the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Museion with the opening show “Peripheral vision and collective body”. The new building corresponds to a redefinition of the entire Museion project: as an institution, Museion has been managed since [...]

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 [...]

“Nature Design – From Inspiration to Innovation” at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich / Switzerland presents more than 500 objects and projects that are inspired by nature. The visitor will find works by over 150 artists and designers, among them: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Richard Hutten, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, [...]

At Art Cologne 2006 VernissageTV had a look at the VIP Lounge which the Canadian designer Karim Rashid designed for the Deutsche Bank. “Visitors to the lounge will find themselves in a sequence of silver-white, pink, and blue rooms steeped in an ambience of mirrored floors, organically flowing walls, and computer-generated net ornaments.” (from db [...]

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 [...]

A conversation with Ambra Medda, co-founder and director of Design Miami/ Basel. In 2007, Design Miami/ Basel explores Process and Performance in contemporary and historic design. Ambra Medda talks about the new venue (the Markthalle, Basel), the participating design galleries, the special program with Design Performances, Design Exhibitions, Design Films, and Design Talks, and the [...]

After visiting the Transportation Design exhibition at Pforzheim University we also had a look at the ideas of the Industrial Design students. Prof. Thomas Gerlach kindly took us on a guided tour, presenting some of the most interesting works. In the first part he shows us a concept for the visitors of the America’s Cup, [...]

Curator Mathias Schwartz-Claus, Vitra Design Museum, talks about the current exhibition “Jean Prouvé. The poetics of the technical object”. “The most important original furniture pieces by Jean Prouvé will be exhibited together with several original architectural elements (among them a reconstructed “Maison de Sinistrés”) as well as numerous architectural models, photographs and original sketches on [...]