http://www.vernissage.tv | Enrico David's solo show at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel titled bears the cryptical title How do You Love Dzzzzt by Mammy? The exhibition circles around just a few elements: Two photographs showing two small boys occupied with a piano - one of them the artist himself - and a portrait of a man. A second installation presents a room with a scene based on the Surrealist photo collage vielle femme et enfant (ca. 1935) by Dora Maar.
Enrico David, born in 1966 in Ancona, lives and works in London. His work (sculptures, gouaches, embroideries, photographs and installations) feature a broad spectrum of cultural reference systems, including Arte Povera Arte Povera, assemblage, set design and graphic art motifs from the 1920s and 30s, as well as numerous literary sources and elements from craft tradition.
Exhibition walk-through, January 15, 2009.
American Streamlined Design – The World of Tomorrow at The Wolfsonian FIU is an exhibition that focuses on a design era that developed in the 1930s and ’40s, characterized by curving forms, and smooth, clean silhouettes. The style, which suggested speed and glamour invaded American design in the post-Depression years. It was widely applied in new forms of architecture, interior decoration and everyday household goods for the home and office.
American Streamlined Design offers a fresh appraisal of the aesthetic of streamlined design. On display are works by its best-known exponents – among them Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, Raymond Loewy and Walter Dorwin Teague – as well as contributions of other lesser-known designers such as Lurelle Guild, Clifford Brooks Stevens, Harold Van Doren and newly discovered practitioners like John R. Morgan, William B. Petzold and Louis Vavrik.
The exhibition at The Wolfsonian Florida International University draws primarily on the collection of ...
http://www.vernissage.tv | Known for his use of bread as a universal symbol for communication, Japanese performance artist Tatsumi Orimoto uses bread yet again as his main element in his performance Punishment. In this work, performed in the section Performing ARCO, several people are tied to a post and have their eyes blindfolded, with a box full of bread hanging from around their necks. One after another, they fall to the ground, and the bread spills out across the floor.
"Tatsumi's performance might well make allusion to the crucifixion of 26 Christian missionaries in Japan in the 16th century, as punishment for their perceived destabiliszing influence. Orimoto thus expresses how the carrier of bread, the bearer of a different other message, is seen as a threat and is persecuted and martyred. Through the bread scattered on the floor in Punishment, we are witnesses to this waste of communication." (excerpt from the press release).
Tatsumi Orimoto was born in Kawasaki City, Japan, in 1946. He studied at ...
This year’s ARCO, the international art fair in Madrid, Spain, presents 238 galleries from 32 different countries. It’s the 28th issue of the international fair for contemporary art in Madrid, Spain. This video provides a walkthrough of ARCOmadrid_2009 on the first of the two days for professionals. Apart from the General Programme with galleries like Marian Goodman Gallery and Hauser & Wirth, a team of international curators presents a selection of artists, galleries and projects in the sections Solo Projects, Performing ARCO, and Expanded Box. This year’s guest country is India, featuring 13 galleries and around fifty artists.
ARCOmadrid_2009, 28th International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid / Spain. Professional Day, February 11, 2009.
http://www.vernissage.tv | Inaugural exhibition of the gallery Katz Contemporary in Zurich, titled "Botanical Madness", based on Joseph Beuys' 1976 photoengraving of the same name. On display are works by the artists huber.huber, Lutz&Guggisberg, Martin Walde, and Claudia Wieser.
http://www.vernissage.tv | In the second part of the interview with the Campana brothers, Humberto and Fernando Campana, talk about their backgrounds, how they work together, why they admire Oscar Niemeyer, what they would love to design that they haven’t yet, and future projects. This video also features images of the installation they created for Design Miami 2008, entitled Diamantina, an evolution of their TransPlastic series. Interview with Fernando and Humberto Campana, part 1/2. Design Miami 2008. December 2, 2008.
At the 2008 edition of the design fair Design Miami, the Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana received the Designer of the Year Award. In keeping with Design Miami tradition, the Campana brothers created an installation for the fair.
VernissageTV spoke with Humberto and Fernando Campana at the HSBC VIP lounge, which they also designed. In the first part of the interview, the Campana brothers talk about their design philosophy, how they were influenced by their home country Brazil, and the topics that play an important part in their design practice.
Humberto and Fernando Campana were born in 1953 and 1961. They have different backgrounds: Humbeto was trained in law, Fernando in architecture. They began began designing furniture together in the mid-1980s. Inspired by their home city São Paolo, they have been combining high and low tech processes and using “poor” materials. Their designs have been manufactured by leading Italian companies, including Edra, Alessi and ...
http://www.vernissage.tv | Goshka Macuga: I Am Become Death at Kunsthalle Basel is the Polish-born artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in continental Europe. The show comprises an ensemble of photographic works, constructions made of wood, and a new documentary film.
The artist’s practice has always been marked by an interest in collaboration with other artists and cultural producers. Goshka Macuga also makes extensive use of existing cultural material.
“I Am Become Death investigates the aesthetic form as a weapon deployed in conflicts between political powers and the impact of official ideologies on the production of art that still aspires to autonomy. At the same time, the exhibition puts forward the possibility that aesthetic potential can be used to opposite ends, as a means of taking a critical look at the present day.” (PR Kunsthalle Basel).
Goshka Macuga was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1967. She lives and works in London. In 2008, she was one of the four nominees ...
http://www.vernissage.tv | The exhibition Gay Chic - from subculture to mainstream at the Museum of Design in Zurich takes up a topical social subject. It looks at the way style and aesthetics from the homosexual subculture are affecting our everyday visual lives and setting trends. Our exhibition creates a visual dialogue showing how ‘Gay Chic’ influences advertising, fashion, mass media, films and pop music, but also the significance of historical figures like the ‘dandy’ and the fashionable “garçonne” female type, alongside the artistic models.” (PR Museum of Design Zurich). Impressions of the opening of the show at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, April 26, 2006.
As part of The Wolfsonian Museum?s official program for Art Basel Miami Beach, Elliott Earls performed a new work in conjunction with the museum?s Thoughts on Democracy exhibition. The Thoughts on Democracy exhibition is comprised of posters created by 60 leading contemporary artists and designers, invited by The Wolfsonian to create a new graphic design inspired [...]
The current exhibition at CIFO is titled: The Prisoner?s Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. The show is curated by Leanne Mella, a contemporary art curator, specializing in American artist?s work in film, video, performance, photography and new media. The works in this exhibition comment upon, confront and challenge strategies of totalizing power and [...]
Purchase Not By Moonlight at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, MOCA, is Anri Sala?s first major museum exhibition in the US. The show features seven films from the late 1990s to the present including a new film, Answer Me, along with photographs and sculptures. The installation explores a dialogue about the interplay of [...]
Guerra de la Paz is the composite name which represents the creative team of Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. Guerra de la Paz was established in 1996, when the original idea by two individual artists of just sharing a studio transformed into a collaboration that produced a series of paintings, photography, collage-decollage, sculpture [...]
Over the past years Kunsthalle Basel has been inviting several artists to come up with a special work for its back wall next to Elisabethenkirche. After Dan Perjovschi (2007), Piotr Uklanski (2004), Sarah Morris (2002), Karim Noureldin (2001), Franz Ackermann (2000), and Esther Hiepler (1999), now Swiss artist Karin Hueber did a project titled ?The [...]
Just 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 [...]
Piero Lissoni is one of the designers who have been commissioned to give the luxury resort Dellis Cay a shape. He has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 in Seregno, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Piero Lissoni lives and [...]
The Wolfsonian design museum in the Art Deco district of Miami Beach, Florida, was founded in 1986 by Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. to show his personal design collection. In 1997 he donated the collection and its building to Florida International University. The museum mostly focuses on the late 19th to mid 20th century design. In this video, [...]
Willie Doherty?s current solo exhibition at Gallery Peter Kilchmann in Zürich, Switzerland, presents his new film, Three Potential Endings. The name of the film is at the same time the title of the show, that is Willie Doherty?s sixth exhibition at Peter Kilchmann. In addition to the film a series of photographs are on display. Three [...]
Until the 7th February 2009 the gallery Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio in Zurich, Switzerland, presents two artists, Beth Campbell and Stephen Willats. The exhibition is titled Social Interactions: Beth Campbell / Stephen Willats. Campbell and Willats are of separate generations and educational experience. Beth Campbell was born in the USA in 1971. She recently participated in Manifesta [...]
Commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim, Anish Kapoor created a site-specific work. The sculpture, titled ?Memory?, is a 24 ton Cor-Ten steel tank, that sits tightly within the Deutsche Guggenheim?s gallery space. Thus, the viewer has two distinct views of the work. In addition to that, a staircase leading down from the Deutsche Guggenheim?s store offers a [...]
On the occasion of MOCA?s Vanity Fair Party, members of The Cleveland Orchestra performed Albanian artist Anri Sala?s ?A Spurious Emission?. The performance is based on an encounter that Anri Sala experienced while driving across Arizona, listening to baroque chamber music on his car radio. The broadcast was disturbed when Anri Sala pulled into a [...]
Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz of artist duo Guerra de la Paz were both born in Cuba. Alain Guerra studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Neraldo de la Paz at the Northern Illinois University, De Kalb. They met in Chicago the day that Alain was moving back to Miami. [...]
At Design Miami 2008 we had the pleasure to document a conversation between British designer Ross Lovegrove and Dr. Albrecht Bangert about Ross Lovegrove?s work for Swarovski Crystal Palace and specifically his piece Liquid Space. In this conversation Ross Lovegrove talks about how the piece fits into his work, the piece itself (the aesthetic and [...]
From December 18 to 31 the exhibition ?Dans la nuit, des images? (Images in the night) at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, presents a panorama of European audiovisual and multimedia creation. On display are works by both young and established artists. Among them: Bill Viola, Michael Snow, William Kentridge, Charles Sandison, and Anri Sala. [...]
http://www.vernissage.tv | Guerra de la Paz is the composite name which represents the creative team of Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. Guerra de la Paz was established in 1996, when the original idea by two individual artists of just sharing a studio transformed into a collaboration that produced a series of paintings, photography, collage-decollage, sculpture and installation.
During Art Basel Miami Beach 2008 the Main Miami-Dade Public Library showed a large sculpture titled Indradhanush (Rainbow). The piece is an example of their current focus on creating works out of unwanted clothing.
VernissageTV visited Guerra de la Paz at their studio in Miami to talk about their work. In part 1 of this interview, Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz talk about the beginnings of their collaboration, the installation Indradhanush, why they use found objects, and the way they work together.
Guerra de la Paz, Studio Visit. Miami, Florida / USA, November 27, 2008.
http://www.vernissage.tv | The World of Madelon Vriesendorp at the Swiss Architecture Museum is an exhibition that for the first time ever brings together Madelon Vriesendorp’s wildly diverse practices from the past forty years. Madelon Vriesendorp is one of the founding members of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 (together with Rem Koolhaas and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis).
The exhibition runs until the 22nd March, 2009. Impressions of the opening reception and the Basel Museum Night at the Swiss Architecture Museum on the 15th and 16th January 2009.
On the occasion of MOCA’s Vanity Fair Party, members of The Cleveland Orchestra performed Albanian artist Anri Sala’s “A Spurious Emission”. The performance is based on an encounter that Anri Sala experienced while driving across Arizona, listening to baroque chamber music on his car radio. The broadcast was disturbed when Anri Sala pulled into a rest area and an unknown station playing country music intermittently interrupted the baroque music. This kind of interference is called spurious emission. Anri Sala commissioned a composer to transpose this sound experience into a musical score, performed by a baroque trio, a country band and a radio announcer.
Anri Sala: A Spurious Emission. MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. Vanity Fair International Party. December 2, 2008.
Over the past years Kunsthalle Basel has been inviting several artists to come up with a special work for its back wall next to Elisabethenkirche. After Dan Perjovschi (2007), Piotr Uklanski (2004), Sarah Morris (2002), Karim Noureldin (2001), Franz Ackermann (2000), and Esther Hiepler (1999), now Swiss artist Karin Hueber did a project titled “The Inside Out Exhibition”. With her work she responded to the architectural characteristics of the passageway between Kunsthalle and Elisabethenkirche. She composed shiny and matt varnished wooden planes and volumes mounted on the wall. The geometrical, abstract design reminds through its shapes of wall claddings and furnishings, referring to a fragmented interior.
Inauguration of the new project for the back wall of Kunsthalle Basel. Followed by drinks and grill. November 15, 2008.
From December 18 to 31 the exhibition â??Dans la nuit, des imagesâ? (Images in the night) at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, presents a panorama of European audiovisual and multimedia creation. On display are works by both young and established artists. Among them: Bill Viola, Michael Snow, William Kentridge, Charles Sandison, and Anri Sala. â??Dans la nuit, des imagesâ? includes some 140 works, representing 10 years of contemporary creation from the 27 European Union member states and numerous other countries.
â??A selection of iconic works using light projection - photographs, films, videos, digital imagery and interactive installations from plasma screens to giant projections - will document the technological innovations that have become part of artistic creation over the past ten years.â? (press release).
The works are projected onto the floor and walls, on screens and onto the huge glass roof and facade of the Grand Palais.
â??Dans la nuit, des imagesâ? is staged by the Ministry ...
In 2008, Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery celebrated its 40th anniversary. An exhibition with works by Jeff Wall is rounding off a series of exhibitions the gallery has conceived to mark this occasion. The very first joint project between the Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery and Jeff Wall was a contribution to the exhibition “Westkunst”, which took place in Cologne in 1981 and was curated by Kaspar König and Lazlo Glozer. The current exhibition presents early works from the 1980s, including “A woman and her doctor” (1980/81), “Doorpusher” (1984), “The Smoker” (1986), “The Thinker“, (1986) and “The old prison” (1987).
Impressions of the opening reception and interview with Jeff Wall. Video by Gürsoy Dogtas. Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich / Germany, November 25, 2008.
Piero Lissoni is one of the designers who have been commissioned to give the luxury resort Dellis Cay a shape. He has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental.
Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 in Seregno, Italy. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Piero Lissoni lives and works in Milan. Since 1985 he is designer and art director for Boffi. He has created award-winning furniture, kitchens, lighting and bathrooms as well as apartments, villas, luxury hotels, showrooms and yachts. In this conversation with writer, reporter and cartoonist Anthony Haden-Guest, Piero Lissoni talks about Dellis Cay, his design philosophy - and contemporary art.
http://www.vernissage.tv | The main protagonist in this video is a palm tree with a very special talent or misbehavior. It has been planted among its conventional fellows by Brazilian artist Ana Linnemann in Lummus Park in Miami Beach as part of Art Basel Miami Beach’s Art Projects.
To the surprise of the amazed passersby, the palm tree, spins for 30 seconds and then stays still for two minutes. “That’s funny!”, on of the spectators calls out, and the piece is certainly one of the most popular art works during Art Basel Miami Beach. But there’s more behind it.
Ana Linnemann: (From the series) The Invisibles, 2008, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo. Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Projects. December 7, 2008.
http://www.vernissage.tv | The current exhibition at CIFO is titled: The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. The show is curated by Leanne Mella, a contemporary art curator, specializing in American artist’s work in film, video, performance, photography and new media. The works in this exhibition comment upon, confront and challenge strategies of totalizing power and social control. Among the works on display are Stan Douglas’ Mess Hall, Isla de Pinos (2005), Alexandre Arrechea’s El Espacio Alterado (2004), and Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (We are the Objects of Your Suave Entrapments), 1984.
Miami Art Exchange founder and editor Onajidé Shabaka spoke with Leanne Mella about the exhibition at the occasion of the Opening Brunch at CIFO, Miami / Florida, on December 5, 2008.
Dr. Albrecht Bangert in conversation with Ross Lovegrove at the occasion of the presentation of Ross Lovegrove's Liquid Space chandelier / table ensemble for Swarovski Crystal Palace at the design fair Design Miami 2008.
Dr. Albrecht Bangert in conversation with Nadja Swarovski at the occasion of the presentation of Ross Lovegrove's Liquid Space chandelier / table ensemble for Swarovski Crystal Palace at the design fair Design Miami 2008.
http://www.vernissage.tv | Commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim, Anish Kapoor created a site-specific work. The sculpture, titled "Memory", is a 24 ton Cor-Ten steel tank, that sits tightly within the Deutsche Guggenheim's gallery space. Thus, the viewer has two distinct views of the work. In addition to that, a staircase leading down from the Deutsche Guggenheim's store offers a view into Memory's dark, cavernous interior through a two-meter square aperture window. By this, the viewer has three perspectives he has to put together again in his memory.
Anish Kapoor was born in 1954 in Mumbai, India. He lives and works in London. The exhibition has been curated by Sandhini Poddar. The show will travel to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York at a date to be announced.
This video contains statements by the curator of the exhibition, Sandhini Poddar, and an interview with Anish Kapoor.
Interview: Daniel Miller. Video: Lizza May David. Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin / Germany. November 28, 2008.
Interview with artist Brian Burkhardt on the occasion of his exhibition at Gallery Diet in Miami, Florida. The exhibition titled "Bi(h)ome" presents sculptures and Objects as well as Brian Burkhardt's studio, a geodesic dome in which he conceives and creates all his work. Miami, November 29, 2008.
For the Paris Autumn Festival (Festival d’Automne à Paris) Brazilian artist José Damasceno conceived an installation titled Projection, composed of rows of cinema seats and colored paper shaped like soles. In this video, José Damasceno talks about this presentation which was curated by Ligia Canongia. The work is installed at the Espace Topographie de l’art at 15 rue de Thorigny in Paris. It is open for the public Wednesday to Sunday 3 pm to 7 pm. The festival runs until December 21, 2008.
José Damasceno represented Brazil at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007 (together with Angela Detanico). He is currently participating in Prospect.1 New Orleans.
José Damasceno at Le Festival d’Automne à Paris. Interview with José Damasceno. Video by Christophe Ecoffet. November 19, 2008.
Group show at Dorsch Gallery, Miami / Florida. 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 run by Brook Dorsch and his wife Tyler.
The current exhibition is a group show titled “Shapeshifter”. The exhibition includes paintings, video, projection, sculpture, and mixed media by Jenny Brillhart, Elisabeth Condon, Robin Griffiths, Richard Haden, Michelle Hailey, m lafille, Martin Murphy, Ralph Provisero, John Sanchez and Kyle Trowbridge.
Impressions from the opening reception, November 29, 2008.
Martin Z. Margulies is collecting art since more than 30 years already, the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse celebrates a decade of exhibitions and educational programming. Currently, during Art Basel Miami Beach and through April 2009, the Collection presents work - among others - by Magdalena Abakanovicz, Isaac Julien, and George Osodi.
In this video, Martin Z. Margulies talks about the recent acquisitions, the common thread of the collection, the roots of his interest in art, what things have changed and stayed the same over the years, and the collaboration with the Lotus House (a shelter for homeless women and children, run by Martin Z. Margulies's wife Constance Collins Margulies).
The current exhibition at the Rubell Family Collection is made up of work by 31 African American artists. It shows more than 200 works of art, occupying the entire 45,000-square-foot exhibition space of the Rubell Family Collection. The show is called "30 Americans" and is a portrait of contemporary African-American art.
The artists presented are: Nina Chanel Abney, John Bankston, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Iona Rozeal Brown, Nick Cave, Robert Colescott, Noah Davis, Leonardo Drew, Renée Green, David Hammons, Barkley I. Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Kerry James Marschall, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, William Pope.L, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Shinique Smith, Jeff Sonhouse, Henry Taylor, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, Purvis Young.
30 Americans. Rubell Family Collection, Miami. Impressions from the Private View on December 4, 2008.
2008/2009 exhibition at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, Florida. The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse celebrates a decade of exhibitions and educational programming. Currently, during Art Basel Miami Beach and through April 2009, the Collection presents work - among others - by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Isaac Julien, and George Osodi.
Russian Dreams... at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Florida. Russian Dreams… at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach presents a selection of cutting-edge works by contemporary artists from Russia. The show, curated by Olga Sviblova, Director of the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, explores Russian’s art’s evolution from the pre-Glasnost era to the present day.
The exhibition juxtaposes the work of modern Russian artists such as AES+F Group, Alexander Ponomarev, Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Dmitri Gutov, Alexei Kostroma, and the new generation of young artists – Julia Milner, Rostan Tavasiev, Haim Sokol, and MishMash Project.
VernissageTV attended the Bass Museum’s annual Art Basel Miami Beach bash on Wednesday December 3, 2008.