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As part of the supporting program of ART HK, Hong Kong International Art Fair, I/O (Input/Out) and I/O Off-Site presented a performance by Hong Kong artist Samson Young. VernissageTV was on site to document Samson Young leading the iphone musicians through a music score of matrix notations on the opening day of the art fair. [...]

At Art Cologne 2009 Hans Mayer Gallery showed a piece by Nam June Paik, a painted aluminium infrastructure with a multi painted satellite dish, 24 color TV sets and laser disc player. In this video, Hans Mayer gives us a short introduction to the work. Nam June Paik (1932-2006) worked with a variety of media [...]

Facinated by all things extraterrestrial, the creative duo Comenius Roethlisberger & Admir Jahic presented their work “The Flying Saucers or In God We Trust” at Scope art fair Basel 2010. Roethlisberger and Jahic are known for their “YouTube Drawings“, a series of drawings that show stills from YouTube clips. The artists captured hundreds of individual [...]

Following the success of its inaugural show, LA Art in New York has expanded in 2007 to include 23 Los Angeles galleries. A new feature of the 2007 fair is the inclusion of 6 selected international guest galleries. LA Art in New York 2007. > Click image to watch quicktime video in new movie window. [...]

Dorsch Gallery was founded in 1991, originally located in the historic Parkway Drugs building off of Coral Way and SW 13th Avenue in Miami. It was one of the first galleries, along with Locust Projects and the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, that moved to what is now known as the Wynwood Art District. The gallery is [...]

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 [...]

Dr. Cem Kinay is the CEO and Chairman of O Property Collection, and the developer and owner of Dellis Cay. Dellis Cay is a 560-acre private island located in the Turks & Caicos, British West Indies, 575 miles south of Miami, Florida. Dr. Cem Kinay commissioned the architects / designers Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo [...]

The architect and urbanist David Rogers has been one of the speakers at the Architecture Talks Lucerne 2006: “Shopping-Miles And More”. We had the opportunity to talk with him on day one of the symposium. David Rogers is Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. He has been responsible for several of Jerde’s most innovative, award-winning [...]

The new museum for modern and contemporary art, the Museion Bozen Bolzano, Italy, was designed by the Berlin-based architects KSV Krüger Schubert Vandreike. At the occasion of the inauguration of the new museum, VernissageTV met with Torsten Krüger, Christiane Schuberth, Bertram Vandreike who guided us through the Museion and explained the concept behind the building [...]

In the second part ot the interview with David Rogers he talks about art and architecture, the partnership with ING and the mixed-use project. David Rogers is architect and urbanist and Senior Vice President of Jerde Partnership. One of his projects, Zlote Tarasy, just won the 2006 Architectural review MIPIM Future Project Award in the [...]

Global Street Food is the latest project by German designer / creative director / curator / artist Mike Meiré. At Vitra’s Art Basel Party we had the opportunity to have a look at Global Street Food and spoke with Mike Meiré and Andreas Dornbracht of kitchen and bathroom brand Dornbracht. Global Street Food is part [...]

One of the really great figures of design – Alessandro Mendini – is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Alessandro Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small [...]

On the second stop of our gallery tour in Madrid we visited La Fabrica. La Fabrica Galeria is located near the famous Museo del Prado, the newly opened CaixaForum and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía – in the heart of Madrid’s “triangle of art”. The gallery focuses on international contemporary art, with [...]

The Golden Lion for best artist in curator Daniel Birnbaum’s Fare Mondi / Making Worlds art exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale went to German artist Tobias Rehberger. Tobias Rehberger designed the cafeteria at the Biennale pavilion (formerly known as Italian Pavilion). The jury stated: “Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist [...]

Design Miami Basel left the Markthalle and is now located at the back of Art Basel. In addition to the 27 participating international design galleries, Design Miami Basel 2009 features the Designers of the Future Award Installation, a special exhibition by Marc Newson featuring several of the designers exclusive works including rare prototypes and private [...]