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VernissageTV interview with Helen Allen, director of Pulse Art Fair. Pulse is an invitational art fair held annualy in Miami and New York. Interview: Theodore Bouloukos. Pulse Art Fair New York, March 11, 2006.With this and following interviews with gallery owners at Pulse New York 2006 we introduce Theodore Bouloukos as VernissageTV correspondent. Theodore is [...]

Art 38 Basel, Art Unlimited sector. Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland. “The «Art Unlimited» exhibition features some 70 artists from 28 countries presenting exciting art projects as can be seen at no other art fair in the world.” (PR Art Basel). June 12, 2007. Impressions. Part 1. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime [...]

At Art Cologne 2006 Forsblom Gallery presented works by the young finnish artist HC (Hans-Christian) Berg. HC Berg was born 1971 in Esbo, Finland. He was awarded the National Young Artist of the Year Award for 2007. Frej Forsblom talks about the gallery’s program, and the work of HC Berg. Current exhibition at the gallery [...]

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 [...]

It was more than improbable that this four artists met in a common project. Nevertheless, here they are, luckily gathered: Amadeo Azar, Milo, Roberto Rey and Hernán Salamanco present this strange and seductive exhibition, at the Contemporary Art Gallery Pasaje 17. Azar, moving away from the dystopias, from neat models, axonometric drawings and faint watercolors [...]

James Turrell is famous for his work with light and space. He is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, where he is turning a volcanic crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, into a monumental work of art. In Zuoz, Switzerland, James Turrell realized one of his skyspaces, rooms that are conceived to enable viewers [...]

In one of the largest halls of the Architecture Biennale’s Arsenale exhibition space, Transsolar and Tetsuo Kondo Architects created an artificial 800sqm cloud. A spiraling cantilevered ramp allows the visitors of the installation to experience the ethereal cloudscape from below, within, and above. The cloud is created through climate engineering. Creating the cloud is based [...]

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 [...]

In the Desert of Modernity – Colonial Planning and After is an exhibition at the House of World Cultures (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, that focuses on the European modernization fantasies in colonial North Africa. The car-oriented city, the underground car park and other projects were intended as a blueprint for Europe’s metropolises, [...]

“Form is Process”. “Mass Customization”. “Infinite Infinities”. “Number is All”. “The Moral Justification for Modernist Standardization… is no more”. “Professor Lalvani is continuing to explore the fundamental principles of geometry where Fuller left off”. This is what Design Miami visitors could read on the walls of the booth of the design gallery Moss from New [...]

VTV is talking with Kenny Schachter about his gallery’s concept and his booth at ARCO 2006. Amongst others he shows works by Zaha Hadid and Vito Acconci. Untitled (2006) by Zaha Hadid is a cell / body that offers / allows multi functional uses, as a table, counter, seat, container and as a surface to [...]

“‘Gay Chic’ takes up a topical social subject. It looks at the way style and aesthetics from the homosexual subculture are affecting our everyday visual lives and setting trends. Our exhibition creates a visual dialogue showing how ‘Gay Chic’ influences advertising, fashion, mass media, films and pop music, but also the significance of historical figures [...]

At 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 [...]

The following galleries participated in Design Miami/ Basel: Antik, Demisch Danant, Barry Friedman Ltd., Magen H. Gallery, Nilufar, Galerie Italienne, R 20th Century, Galerie Kreo, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Philippe Jousse, Cristina Grajales, Contrasts Gallery, Galerie Downtown-François Laffanour, Dansk Mobelkunst, Designer’s Gallery Gabrielle Ammann, Mouvements Modernes, and Philippe Denys. Design Miami/ Basel, press tour with the [...]

Hochschule Pforzheim University is one of the world’s leading schools of design. In the final part of our Werkschau series at Hochschule Pforzheim University, Faculty of Design, Professor Thomas Gerlach talks about the University in general and specifically about the application and evaluation process at the Faculty of Design and the basic concepts of the [...]