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Antony Gormley: One and Other / At Dusk

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

At 9 a.m. on Wednesday 14th October 2009, the last participant of British artist Antony Gormley’s One & Other project, Emma Burns, stepped onto the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. Two days before, when we filmed Trafalgar Square at dusk, it was a completely different scenery, as you can see in this video [...]

The Embassy / London

Monday, October 26th, 2009

During Frieze Art Fair 2009, The Embassy, a multi-disciplinary group show, presented works by Marco Brambilla, Terence Koh, Rosey Chan, Tom Gallant, Alastair Mackie, Oliver Clegg, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Bruce French, Henry Hudson, Michael Lisle-Taylor, Laurence Owen, Karim Rabik, Hugo Wilson and Yarisal & Kublitz. Curated by Dellal and Xerxes Cook, the exhibition was intended [...]

Frieze Sculpture Park 2009

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

It was beautiful autumn weather during Frieze Art Fair 2009, so we took a walk in the park: Frieze’s Sculpture Park, located in the southeast corner of Regent’s Park. This year’s Frieze Sculpture Park has been curated by David Thorp and featured works by the followning artists: Zhan Wang: Artificial Rock No. 16 (2007); Maria [...]

The Age of the Marvellous / Old Trinity Church, London

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

The Age of the Marvellous is the title of an exhibition in the former Holy Trinity Church (built in 1828 by Sir John Soane) in London. The Age of the Marvellous features over 60 works of art, most of them especially produced for the exhibition. The artists Hilary Berseth, Nicola Bolla, Paul Fryer, Adam Fuss, [...]

Antony Gormley: One & Other / Finale

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

At 9 a.m. on Wednesday 14th October 2009, the last participant of British artist Antony Gormley’s One & Other project, Emma Burns, stepped onto the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. The 30 year old medical photographer from Darlington is one of 2,400 people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures and from all over [...]

Stephanie Syjuco: Copystand / Frieze Projects, Frieze Art Fair 2009 / Interview

Monday, October 19th, 2009

This is an interview with San Francisco-based artist Stephanie Syjuco. Stephanie Syjuco has conceived a project for this year’s Projects program of Frieze Art Fair. Her project called Copystand: an autonomous manufacturing zone is a workshop in which a small group of artists are making bootleg copies of other works exhibited in the fair, and [...]

Thomas Struth: Paradise / Deutsche Bank VIP Lounge, Frieze Art Fair 2009

Friday, October 16th, 2009

As every year, Deutsche Bank is presenting an exhibition at their VIP Lounge at Frieze Art Fair. This year, the show is dedicated to the work of German photographer Thomas Struth. Deutsche Bank has over fifty of Struth’s earlier works in its collection. Many of them examine the 50s and 60s German city developments of [...]

Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell / Opening and Performance by Patti Smith

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

If she ever wondered how many people fit into her gallery space, now Alison Jacques knows. The opening of the current exhibition Robert Mapplethorpe: A Season in Hell reminded visitors more of a Guinnes Book World Record attempt than a vernissage. The reason for this rush was obviously the announcement that the American singer-songwriter and [...]

Miroslaw Balka: How It Is / Tate Modern, Turbine Hall / London

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

As the tenth work in Tate Modern’s annual series of Unilever commissions, Polish artist Miroslaw Balka installed a enormous steel container filled with – darkness. The sculpture, called How It Is is 30 meters long, 10 meters wide and 13 meters high and completely dark inside. The interior walls of the steel chamber are lined [...]

John Baldessari: Pure Beauty / Tate Modern, London

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

In June 2009, conceptual artist John Baldessari received the Venice Biennale Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, now the Tate Modern in London dedicates him the most extensive retrospective to date in the UK.
“John Baldessari: Pure Beauty will bring together more than 130 works and examine the principal concerns of this legendary Californian artist. With humour [...]

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