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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009This year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, the sister event of Switzerland’s Art Basel, again combines an international selection of top galleries with a program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 First Choice, Preview and Vernissage, December 2, 2009.
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:mentalKLINIK: PuFF / Art Unlimited / Art 40 Basel 2009
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Turkish artist duo :mentalKLINIK’s installation PuFF reminds of a boxing ring with little black robots fighting against each other and the glitter that is sprayed on the floor of the ring. PuFF attempts to create an unidentified space, an indecisive zone of repetition replete with the absurdity of a floor, which is continually filled with [...]
Sarah Oppenheimer: VP-41 / Art 40 Basel 2009, Art Unlimited
Monday, June 22nd, 2009At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer.
Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent [...]
Art 40 Basel 2009 / Art Unlimited Preview / Part 2/2
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009Art Basel’s Art Unlimited exhibition is the art fair’s sector for large sculptures, and installation and video art. In the first part of our exhibition walkthrough we had a look at works by Elisabetta Benassi, Yoshitomo Nara, Beat Zoderer, Sislej Xhafa, Ayse Erkmen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Fabrice Gygi, Surdashan Shetty, Farhad Moshiri, Jesús Fafael Soto, [...]
Art 40 Basel Review
Sunday, June 14th, 2009A review of Art 40 Basel art fair in Basel, Switzerland by Ute Thon of German art magazine Art – Das Kunstmagazin (in German language).
Art 40 Basel, June 9, 2009.
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Art 40 Basel 2009
Saturday, June 13th, 2009More than forty years ago, a small group of Basel gallerists decided to launch an art fair. Art Basel’s debut in 1970 was an art fair with 120 exhibitors from ten countries. It then had around 16′000 visitors. Today, Art 40 Basel features galleries from 31 countries in Europe, America, and Asia and more than [...]
Takashi Murakami & Pharrell Williams: The Simple Things / Interview with Pharrell Williams / Art 40 Basel
Thursday, June 11th, 2009At Art 40 Basel, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presented a 6-foot Takashi Murakami sculpture, made in collaboration with the U.S. record producer and designer Pharrell Williams. The object is titled The Simple Things. It features a glass-fiber, steel and acrylic head based on Takashi Murakami’s cartoon-inspired signature character Mr. Dob. In its mouth you find objects [...]
Art 40 Basel 2009 / Art Unlimited Preview / Part 1/2
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009This year’s Art Unlimited exhibition of the international art fair Art 40 Basel in Basel, Switzerland, marks the tenth edition of Art Basel’s sector for large sculptures, and installation and video art. In the first part of our exhibition walkthrough we have a look at works by Elisabetta Benassi, Yoshitomo Nara, Beat Zoderer, Sislej Xhafa, [...]
Interview with Carl Ettensperger
Friday, February 6th, 2009Carl Ettensperger has been involved in some of the most prestigious projects in the hospitality industry. For Dellis Cay, he designed ten Over Water Villas, which will be the Caribbean’s first over-water villas. We spoke with Carl Ettensperger at the Dellis Cay booth he designed for O Property Collection at Art Basel Miami Beach 2008. [...]
Ana Linnemann: The Invisibles. Palm Tree / ABMB Art Projects
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Just in case that you are not yet sitting under the christmas tree with your family, singing and unpacking gifts, we have a special video for you today. The main protagonist is a tree as well, but: it’s not a fir but a palm tree with a very special talent or misbehavior. It has been [...]
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