Archive for December, 2009
« Previous EntriesAsimetrías y Convergências / Colombian Artists at Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo / Brazil
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009The group show Asimetrías y Convergências at Galeria Vermelho in Sao Paulo, Brazil, brings together works by emerging Colombian artists, among them Milena Bonilla, Luis Hernández Mellizo, Icaro Zorbar, Mónica Naranjo, Diana Menestrey, Cesar Gonzalez, Daniel Santiago Salguero, María Isabel Rueda, Adriana Salazar, María Isabel Arango, Kevin Simon Mancera, Roa Luisa, Andrés Ramírez Gaviria, Angélica [...]
Dzine at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Monday, December 28th, 2009Dzine (b. Carlos Rolon, 1970) is a Chicago-based artist who appropriates elements from popular culture, Baroque design, and the Arts and Crafts movement, to develop his own language. As media, he mainly uses sculpture, painting and installation.
For his exhibition at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, Dzine created a new custom lowrider tricycle inspired [...]
Abraham Palatnik: Aparelho Cinecromático (1964)
Thursday, December 24th, 2009One the works on display in the exhibition “Dimensions of Constructive Art in Brazil – The Adolpho Leirner Collection” at Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich, Switzerland, is Abraham Palatnik’s Aparelho Cinecromático.
Abraham Palatnik is a pioneer of technological art. He was born in natal, Rio Grande do Norte, in 1928, to a family of Russian Jews that [...]
Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection / CIFO, Miami
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009For Art Basel Miami Beach 2009, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation presents Being in the World: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection curated by Berta Sichel. The exhibition features 7 media-based works by Chantal Akerman, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Muntean/Rosenblum, Shirin Neshat, Robin Rhode, Bill Viola and Francesca Woodman. The works were selected from the 63 media-based [...]
Artists Meeting Art Machine at Pulse Miami 2009
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009At Pulse Miami 2009, New York-based art group Artists Meeting presented Artists Meeting’s Art Machine, a hacked together custom fine art dispensing device inspired by self-service kiosks, Japanese automats, slot machines, ATM’s, juke boxes, shopping malls and carnival games. Artists Meeting Art Machine at random dispenses an assortment of custom made objects and drawings via [...]
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex at Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Monday, December 21st, 2009Where Do We Go From Here? at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami presents a selection of works from La Colección Jumex. The Jumex Collection, based in Mexico City, is the largest private collection of international contemporary art in Latin America. For the first time, this collection is shown in the United States. Where [...]
Interview with Designer of the Year Maarten Baas at Design Miami 2009
Friday, December 18th, 2009At Design Miami 2009, Dutch designer Maarten Baas has been awarded the Designer of the Year price. On the occasion of this award, Maarten Baas presented a retrospective of his work, including pieces of his famous Smoke and Clay furniture series. Also on display: Maarten Baas’ Real Time Project, a series of videos depicting a [...]
Beyond the Daily Life: Teresa Diehl and Guerra de la Paz at Center for Visual Communication, Miami
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Beyond the Daily Life is an exhibition at the Center for Visual Communication in Miami / USA that brings together recent works by Teresa Diehl and the artist duo Guerra de la Paz. The show has been curated by Julian Navarro. The opening reception featured live music by the Disco Monkeys.
During Art Basel Miami Beach [...]
Interview with Greg Lynn / Design Miami 2009
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009For 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 [...]
7th Mercosul Biennial 2009: Grito e Escuta / Porto Alegre, Brazil / Part 2/2
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009This is the second part of our coverage of the 7th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
The 7th Mercosul Biennial ran from October 16 to November 29, 2009, in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul / Brazil in three exhibition spaces: the Quayside Warehouses, Santander Cultural and MARGS (Rio Grande so Sul Museum of Art). [...]
