Out now: VernissageTV PDF-magazine No. 15, January 2011. In this issue we look back at Art Basel Miami Beach Week with an Miami Basel Overview by FADs Editor at Large Ben Austin (click here for his article at FAD) and photos by Sabine Trieloff, Mark Vogel, and Didier Leroi. (Photos by Didier Leroi and Gregor Rieser).

What else? An art meets design exhibition in Vienna; Pipilotti Rist, Roman Signer and Marc Newson in New York; Paul McCarthy in Los Angeles; Aaron Curry and Moniker in London; Argonaut Mathilda in Istanbul; and Elmgreen & Dragset’s “Celebrity – The One & the Many” at ZKM in Karlsruhe.

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• Paul McCarthy: Three Sculptures / Inaugural Exhibition at L&M Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
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• Roman Signer: Four Rooms, One Artist at Swiss Institute, New York
• Pipilotti Rist: Heroes of Birth / Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York

Swiss Institute in New York currently presents one of the rare solo exhibitions of Roman Signer in the United States. For the show titled Four Rooms, One Artist, the Swiss artist has created a series of new works, installations and videos. On display are Piano (2010), a grand piano that is filled with table tennis balls. Two oscillating fans cause the balls to dance on the chords, creating ambient music. The second room presents Cinema (2010). The installation consists of rows of wooden chairs and a projected film that shows clips of experiments that were never constituted into artworks and shots of places or events that are of particular interest to Signer. In the back of the room, one chair mysteriously rocks back and forth. In the third room, three video projections of recent actions are shown: Shirt (2010); Two Umbrellas (2009); and Office Chair (2010). The fourth and last room hosts the installation Waiting for Harold Edgerton (2010).

The exhibition has been curated by Gianni Jetzer and runs through November 12, 2010. The above video shows impressions of the opening reception. An interview with Roman Signer on the occasion of his exhibition at the Swiss Institute is available after the jump.

Roman Signer: Four Rooms, One Artist at Swiss Institute, New York. Opening reception, September 14, 2010.

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Gakona is a small village in the center of Alaska. Gakona, that’s a few houses, a service station, a post office – and the American research program HAARP (High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program). Inspired by the work of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), researchers there are studying the possibility of the wireless transmission of electricity by means of ionizing the high strata of the atmosphere. But because of its military funding and the phantasms associated with electromagnetism since the 19th century, HAARP has also become an inexhaustible source of rumors: Climatic disruption, influence on human behavior, etc.

And that’s what the Gakona session at the contemporary art center Palais de Tokyo in Paris relates to: Gakona at the Palais de Tokyo lies at the intersection of fact and rumor, reality and phantasm, science and imagination. It is made up of four solo exhibitions: Micol Assaël, Ceal Floyer, Laurent Grasso and Roman Signer.

In this video by Christophe Ecoffet, Laurent Grasso (see also the coverage of his exhibition in New York) talks about his work and how it is different from the other works on display.

Gakona: Micol Assaël, Ceal Floyer, Laurent Grasso and Roman Signer at Palais de Tokyo, Paris. February 12, 2009.

PS: On February 19, 7.30 pm there’s a discussion and screening with the artist.

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ArteBregaglia, the art course from Maloja to Chiavenna, brought 13 artists to the Bergell, creating works that react to the special historical, cultural and political conditions of this region. In the second part of our trip we have a look at the works of Piero del Bondio, Simone Zaugg, Ariane Epars, Olaf Nicolai, Luigi Serafini, Remy Markowitsch, Bethan Huws, and Roman Signer. Click here information on the participating artists and their work (pdf file).
ArteBregaglia, An art course from Maloja to Chiavenna July 5 – September 21 2008. September 9, 2008. Part 2/2.

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