Out now: VernissageTV PDF-magazine No. 16, April 2011.

During a trip to an evening of openings in Paris, VernissageTV had a closer look at the retrospective with the subtle works of French artist Pierrette Bloch at Karsten Greve Gallery. In Fribourg / Switzerland, we had the chance to do an extensive interview with Edith Dekyndt, who had a solo show at Fri-Art Centre d’Art Contemporain, titled “Dieu rend visite à Newton”.

Number 16 also takes a look at the London Art Scene, where a lot of local galleries showed their program at London Art Fair, and Hauser & Wirth opened new spaces with a Martin Creed solo exhibition that featured a dangerously revolving neon sculpture.

In Berlin, VernissageTV met with Agathe Snow whose solo exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim was showcasing large-scale collages and mobile sculptures. In this show the New York-based Corsican artist Agathe Snow focuses on monuments, trademarks, and historical sites and investigates how they leave their mark on collective memory and national identity.

For the first time, VernissageTV took at trip to Lithuania, to document Zilvinas Kempinas exhibition at Galerija Vartai in Vilnius. Kempinas conceived a show that presented important older and new works.

One of the main themes of the current issue of the magazine is New York. VernissageTV attended several openings such as Ivan Navarro at Paul Kasmin and Tara Donovan at The Pace Gallery. An extensive photo gallery is complemented by a text by FAD Editor at Large Ben Austin, who shares his personal experiences of Armory Week with the readers.

And finally, issue 16 gives an outlook on VernissageTV’s participation in Art Cologne and the video art program that features the artists G.H. Hovagimyan, Christina McPhee, Maria Joao Salema, Raphaele Shirley, Ultra Art Fair, and Lee Wells.

Artists in this issue: Pierrette Bloch, Alexandre Joly, Bettina Pousttchi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Agathe Snow, Edith Dekyndt, Zilvinas Kempinas, and Tara Donovan.

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In her major solo exhibition titled All Access World at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, the New York-based Corsican artist Agathe Snow focuses on monuments, trademarks, and historical sites and investigates how they leave their mark on collective memory and national identity. The exhibition presents large-scale collages, and mobile sculptures. For the sculptures Agathe Snow has taken familiar motifs such as the Eiffel Tower, Stonehenge, the New York skyline, and the bright yellow McDonalds arch and mixed them together. The sculptures are placed on a distorted pink world map and the visitors to the Deutsche Guggenheim are invited to move them around.

VernissageTV attended the opening of the exhibition and did an interview with Agathe Snow. The above video is an excerpt of the interview, the full-lenght version is available after the jump. The artist gives us an introduction to the exhibition and her work and talks about the basic idea and the elements of the show, and her working method.

Agathe Snow’s work group is the 16th artist’s commission for the Deutsche Guggenheim. The series was initiated in 1997. Since then, artists such as James Rosenquist, Jeff Wall, Anish Kapoor, and Julie Mehretu have created works for the Deutsche Guggenheim. Agathe Snow’s All Access World continues this series of large-scale installations.

For the exhibition at Deutsche Guggenheim, Snow founded the fictional enterprise “All Access World” with the stated goal of “a more democratic approach to monument ownership and distributiona.” In this conceptual context, monuments are transformed in an irreverent process into consumer products that reflect the respective taste, interest, and experiences of their “owner.”

For more information see also “All Access World” at DB ArtMag.

Agathe Snow: All Access World at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. Opening reception and interview with Agathe Snow. Berlin / Germany, January 27, 2011.

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