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One of the artworks on display in the current exhibition “Robot Dreams” at Museum Tinguely in Basel is American artist Jon Kessler’s piece “Kessler’s Circus”. Jon Kessler is best known for his kinetic sculptures that combine old analog mechanisms with digital technology such as surveillance cameras. “Kessler’s Circus” was first shown in 2009 at Deitch [...]

The current exhibition (May 16 – June 16, 2007) at Chelsea Space explores the intriguing associations between the work of Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren (1914-1987) and British-based Japanese designer Shin Azumi (born 1965). The exhibition has been curated by Jane Won, who gives us an introduction to the exhibition. Chelsea space, London, May 16, 2007. [...]

Currently, Galeria Desiré Saint Phalle in Mexico City presents new works by Mexican artist Luis Felipe Ortega. Luis Felipe Ortega was born in 1966 in Mexico City, he lives and works in Mexico. Solo shows include Horizonte Invertido at El Clauselito, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico (2010); Before the Horizon at Maison d’Art Actuel [...]

Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 is the last Art Basel under the leadership of Sam Keller. Starting in January 2008 Art Basel will be led by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (Artistic Director), Annette Schönholzer (Director of Operations and Finance), and Marc Spiegler (Director for Strategy and Development). This is part 3 of our walk through Art [...]

The American International Fine Art Fair AIFAF in Palm Beach features international dealers representing all disciplines of fine art: classic Modernist and early Contemporary Art, antiquities, and jewelry. More than 80 galleries from over 13 countries are participating in the 14th edition of the fair. Impressions from the Vernissage preview party. American International Fine Art [...]

For the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, Director and 2010 Pritzker Prize winner Kazuyo Sejima invited Hans Ulrich Obrist to realize the Now Interviews, six days of live public interviews. The Now Interviews will be on view from August 29 – November 21, 2010. 

From August 22 through 27, Obrist developed what he calls [...]

During our stay in Miami we had the chance to meet with Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni. Piero Lissoni hosted a book signing and cocktail reception at the Dellis Cay VIP booth at the Art Collectors Lounge of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Berlinomat is a platform that does not only have design from Berlin in its name. The products which are sold there are from Berlin or made by Berlin designers. The director of the shop on Frankfurter Allee, Anja Leber, talks about the concept of the shop. Owners: Jörg Wichmann and Theresa Meirer. Berlinomat, Berlin, September [...]

Chelsea space is a public gallery next to Tate Britain. Chelsea space is part of the Chelsea College of Art & Design and its programme which includes public exhibitions, lectures, concerts and events, some of which are organized in collaboration with the Tate Britain. Exhibitions director, Donald Smith says, “The intention for CHELSEA space is [...]

At Design Miami/ Basel 2007 we met Christian Labonte of Audi Design. Christian Labonte has been responsible for the design strategy of carmaker Audi since 2004. Christian Labonte trained as a cabinet-maker before studying architecture in Düsseldorf and industrial design in Essen. He has received many international design awards for the products of the Audi [...]

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 [...]

Viennese-born designer Robert Stadler studied design at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, Italy and then at ENSCI / Les Ateliers in Paris. In Paris, he co-founded the Radi Designers group. Since 2000 he has been working solo while simultaneously continuing his activity with the group. He lives and works in Paris and Rio [...]