After many years in which the tradition-rich Art Cologne was loosing more and more of its importance, the world’s oldest art fair not only seems to be back on the right track but also gaining momentum. Since Daniel Hug took over the director position at Art Cologne, the criticism has been muted and the press is talking about the miracle of the Rhine. For this year’s edition that runs from 18th to 22nd April 2012, Daniel Hug is breaking new grounds by collaborating with the New Art Dealers Alliance, who already runs a fair in Miami. Thus, Art Cologne 2012 will see the collaboration between two independent fairs, Art Cologne and NADA Cologne.

VernissageTV met with Daniel Hug in Zürich to talk about the collaboration with NADA. We wanted to know how this collaboration with NADA came about, the hopes he puts in it, and how NADA Cologne is integrated in the overall concept of Art Cologne, both from a strategic point of view as well as regarding the fair layout on site. But one and a half years after our first interview with Daniel Hug as Director of Art Cologne, we also wanted to know how the fair has developed since then regarding attendance and sales, and his goals for the next years. He explains why he discontinued the Open Space section, which played an important role for the fair during the last years. He talks about why he stopped Art Cologne Palma de Mallorca when he took over Art Cologne in 2008, and where he sees the future of art fairs in general and Art Cologne in particular. Finally, Daniel Hug let’s us know what to expect from the 2012-edition of Art Cologne – 46. Internationaler Kunstmarkt in Cologne, Germany, and hints at some of the highlights of the upcoming fair, the participating galleries and the supporting program.

The above video is an excerpt. Watch the interview in full-length with English and German subtitles after the break.

Interview with Art Cologne Director Daniel Hug. Caféteria Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich / Switzerland, January 20, 2012.

PS: See also: NADA Director Heather Hubbs on NADA and the Collaboration with Art Cologne.

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Currently, Galeria Desiré Saint Phalle in Mexico City presents new works by Mexican artist Luis Felipe Ortega. Luis Felipe Ortega was born in 1966 in Mexico City, he lives and works in Mexico. Solo shows include Horizonte Invertido at El Clauselito, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico (2010); Before the Horizon at Maison d’Art Actuel des Chartreux in Brussels (2006), and km96 at Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2002). In 2011 he participated in group shows at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco; Polyforum Siqueiros, Mexico City; Muac, Mexico City; among others.

Desiré Saint Phalle Gallery was founded in 2010 in Mexico City, Mexico. Currently, the gallery represents the artists Cécile Bart, Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes, Jerónimo Hagerman, Ilán Lieberman, MoNDAo Corp., Jean-Luc Mouléne, Luis Felipe Ortega, Jean-Marie Perdix, Carlos Ranc, Marco Rountree Cruz.

Luis Felipe Ortega: Some Things Last a Long Time / Galeria Desiré Saint Phalle, Mexico City. Opening reception, February 4, 2012. By VernissageTV correspondent Jacinto Astiazarán.

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Until recently, Paris-based Turkish artist Yüksel Arslan was almost unknown to a broader public. The Kunsthalle Zurich is now presenting for the first time a selection of over 200 works since 1959 outside of Turkey. The exhibition has its focus on Arslan’s “Artures”, works on paper using a unique technique with special paints.

Yüksel Arslan was born in 1933. He left Turkey in 1962 for political reasons and resettled in Paris. Since then, he has been creating a unique oeuvre that is based on his preoccupation with philosophical, sociological, and artistic literature. Despite the presentation of his work at The Drawing Center in New York in 2008 and his huge retrospective at the Santralistanbul Museum in Istanbul in 2009, Yüksel Arslan is still an insider’s tip. Arslan works in his apartment, which reportedly looks more like a library.

On display are eight different groups of Yüksel Arslan’s Artures: The series “L’Homme I”, “L’Homme II”, “L’Homme III”, “Le Capital”, “Influances I”, “Influances II”, “Autoartures”, and “Journales”. The Influences work groups are dedicated to famous figures, such as Henry David Thoreau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georges Bataille, Kurt Schwitters, and Bertolt Brecht.

Arslan uses special paints that he creates himself by mixing pigments with rather unconventional ingredients such as body fluids, vegetable extracts, petals, grass, oil or charcoal.

Following the presentation at Kunsthalle Zürich (until April 9, 2012), the exhibition will be shown at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle Wien.

Yüksel Arslan: Artures / Exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich at Museum Bärengasse, Zürich / Switzerland. Opening reception, January 27, 2012.

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Pawel Althamer’s exhibition “Almech” at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, Germany, was a work in progress. During the exhibition, Althamer and his team produced sculptures with the faces of visitors of the exhibition and staff members of the museum. On the last day of the show, all finished sculptures were on display. This video was shot at the Finissage of the exhibition and shows the sculptures and some of the visitors that were portrayed.

For more information about the show, a photo gallery, and a video including shots from the opening and an interview with the curator of the exhibition, Nat Trotman, click here!

Paweł Althamer: Almech at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. Finissage, January 14, 2012. Video by Astrid Gleichmann.

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For her first solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, the young artist Hannah Weinberger conceived a site-specific sound installation that fills the five ground floor galleries of the Kunsthalle. The work is titled When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Walking In and consists of eleven ambient sound loops that are played on the eleven channels that the artist has installed in the galleries. The visual aspect of the piece is reduced to the loudspeakers, which are placed in the rooms and echo absorbing curtains that are installed alongside the walls. By walking through the different galleries of the Kunsthalle, the visitors to the exhibition are meant to compose their own soundtrack.

Hannah Weinberger was born in 1988 in Filderstadt, Germany. She lives and works in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. Hannah Weinberger studied Media Arts at the Zürich University of the Arts. She is one of the founding members of the project space Elaine Mgk in the courtyard of Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (together with Tenzing Barshee, Nikola Dietrich, and Scott Cameraon Weaver).

Hannah Weinberger: When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Walking In. Solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel / Switzerland. Opening reception, January 28, 2012.

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Kunsthalle Basel is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of Swiss artist Hannah Weinberger.
An essential mode of Weinberger’s artistic practice and production to date has been that of collaboration and participation. Her music and sound works were often included in exhibitions as live performances that took place during opening nights or special events. Thus, her pieces added another dimension to other artists’ works, and were occasionally also co-performed or co-produced by them. Each of Weinberger’s works engaged with a particular exhibition space and was the outcome of a collective endeavor. Weinberger employs different genres and transgresses the limits of youth subcultures that identify each with one particular genre and the corresponding look and lifestyle. The artist’s open-ended way of working challenges the role hierarchical processes play in contemporary art, and shifts the focus to the importance and presence of collective creativity in our time.

As a representative of the generation that has unlimited access to information and media, Weinberger situates her work in the production sector of music and sound performance. The availability of affordable technology puts the production – and instantaneous distribution – of high-quality music or film within everyone’s reach. Consequently, the hierarchy of artistic production and distribution is transformed, as a single person can access all channels necessary to present a work to the mass audience. Online platforms such as YouTube are only one part of the machinery that enables the new generation to foster the distribution of films and music productions. The majority rules, and its ‘clicks’ alert major corporations to promote certain titles via their distribution networks. The discovery and selection of artistic works are therefore no longer only in the hands of a small number of individuals or of talent scouts. A pre- produced album compilation loses its importance, since the playlist changes constantly. Music becomes a data stream of sounds. New pieces of music received from friends via email complement purchased tracks, as do personally composed tracks and those downloaded from the Internet.

For Kunsthalle Basel, Weinberger has produced a site-specific sound installation. When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Walking In is the title of both the exhibition and the work. Music and sound fill the five ground floor galleries of Kunsthalle Basel. Their visual impact derives solely from the arrangement of loudspeakers while curtains installed alongside the walls assure the absorption of echoes. For the first time, Weinberger’s work, evinced solely by music and sound, stands for itself and relates to the layout of the galleries. The collective processes are not on display: Weinberger has produced twenty-two hours of sound for her exhibition. Eleven loops are played on the eleven channels the artist installed in the galleries and, given their varying lengths the result is a spatial layout of sound, constantly shifting through the exhibition spaces. The Grand Opening Soundtrack devised as an invitation to the opening offers a foretaste of the various loops in the show.

In the first gallery, three different loops are playing over three doughnut-shaped loudspeakers. Each loudspeaker generates a field of sound whose intensity increases the closer you get. Overlapping sounds reverberate between the loudspeakers and between the galleries. Directional loudspeakers in gallery 2 fill the space with another two loops while in the following room one encounters a more intimate atmosphere. Four loops in gallery 4 and one in the final room of the Kunsthalle both open up and close the circuit. The exhibition is not conceived like a record album that runs from beginning to end. Each of the rooms and each of the loops may be the beginning or the end of Weinberger’s work. It is the visitors of the show who determine how long they linger in a room, with a loop, or at a certain position between two or several loops. Hence, the visitors mix personal tracks and create a Weinberger work of their own. The loops are always composed in one timbre, in which major and minor keys harmonize. The basic form of each harmony develops into a body of sound and introduces the next harmony. This conveys a sense of calm underlying the overall composition or of an ingenuous interplay of different elements. The crux of the matter is not so much the development of a danceable beat like for example in electronic music. Instead, the various samples of presets including drum kits, percussion, basses, grand pianos, synths and strings, revolve around the idea of a universal composition.

Hannah Weinberger composes with the aid of programs that are available to many of her peers. When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Walking In does not incorporate any live music or vocals. Instead, the artist appropriates those elements supplied by audio programs whose recombination is left to the user. Appropriation, recombination and repetition are hence essential features of this work. They underpin not only Weinberger’s practice per se but also the listeners’ perceptions, for they necessarily experience the work as a permanent re-mix. As far as musical genres are concerned, When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Walking In can perhaps, best be described as ambient, which is to say, as a style of electronic music dominated by soft and drawn-out sounds. Minimalist beats interspersed with world music clips can be heard alongside other variations that run in a constant 4/4 cadence at a rate of 80–140 bpm (beats per minute).

What remains at the end of the exhibition visit is augured in a poetic and melancholic manner by the title: When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I’ll Think You’re Walking In. Each exhibition visitor is enveloped by the work, and walks away immersed in his or her own personal impressions. Musical elements such as playback, repetitions and overlaps play with perception. The limits of the exhibition space – that Hannah Weinberger merely uses as a minimal backdrop to sound – are thus transcended. The music of the exhibition is subconsciously retained and remains tangible in viewers’ bodies after they left.

The exhibition is generously supported by george foundation.

Hannah Weinberger (*1988 Filderstadt/D) lives and works in Basel and Zurich/CH. Weinberger studied Media Arts from 2007 to 2010 at the Zurich University of the Arts where she received her BFA in 2010. She is currently finishing her MFA at the Zurich University of the Arts. In 2010 Weinberger received the travel award from the Kunsthalle Basel, awarded in the course of Regionale ’11. Hannah Weinberger is one of the founding members of the project space Elaine Mgk together with Tenzing Barshee, Nikola Dietrich and Scott Cameron Weaver in the courtyard of Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel.

Group exhibitions (selection): Inside/Outside: Dressing the Monument Opening Reception, Lynden Sculpture Park, Milwaukee (2011); Group Affinity, Kunstverein Munich (2011); Corso Multisala, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2011); Magical & Poetical Structures, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil (2011); The Village Cry, Kunsthalle Basel (2010); SLIP SNIP TRIP, Karma International, Zurich (2010); Of Objects, Fields, and Mirrors, Kunsthaus Glarus (2010); Bridges & Tunnels, curated by New Jerseyy, Hard Hat, Geneva (2009); FILE RIO, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro (2009); The World Is Our Culture, ZHdK, Zurich (2008); Shift (Electronic Arts) Festival, Basel (2008); FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo (2008). Performances (selection): Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing, Kunstverein Munich (2011); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2011); PASSAGE(S),Theatre de L‘Usine, Geneva (2011); Jam Session, Museumsnacht, Kunsthalle Basel (2011); Regionales Konzert, The Village Cry, Kunsthalle Basel (2010); Transdisziplinäres Konzert, ZHdK, Zurich(2010); Interdisziplinäres Konzert, ZHdK, Zurich (2009).

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The Singapore Show: Future Proof at Singapore Art Museum at 8Q presents artworks from young artists that represent the art scene in Singapore. On display are works by the artists Sookoon Ang, Angela Chong, Genevieve Chua, Chun Kaifeng, Clog 2, Gerald Leow, Charles Lim, Lynn Lu, Mojoko + Eric Foenander, Dawn Ng, Francis Ng, Donna Ong, Ruben Pang, :phunk studio & Keiichi Tanaami, Rizman Putra, Bruce Quek, Ryf, Shah Rizzal, Speak Cryptic, Grace Tan & Randy Chan, Melissa Tan, Vertical Submarine, Andree Weschler, Joel Yuen, and Robert Zhao.

The exhibition features the installation Eccentric City: Rise and Fall by Singapore-based artist group :phunk Studio in collaboration with the Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami, a work that showcases the Japanese art of tatebanko, the art of making models or dioramas out of paper.

Chun Kaifeng shows The Ride of a Lifetime!, a miniature of a Ferris wheel resembling a prison, and of the Marina Bay Sands, decorated with currency signs, the back of the building vandalised with splotches of paint.

Donna Ong has created a city out of glass containers, Crystal City, and Speakcryptic used the staircase of the museum for a large mural called Ka-Khe that thematizes the Baweanese culture.

The Singapore Show is a parallel event of Art Stage Singapore 2012 and independently organised by the Singapore Art Museum.

The Singapore Show: Future Proof at Singapore Art Museum at 8Q. Opening reception, January 13, 2012.

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Swiss architect Peter Maerkli won the honorary award of the Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 for the archaic art museum La Congiunta in Giornico (Ticino, Switzerland). In this video, he talks about the concept of the architecture of the museum.

The Museum La Congiunta is dedicated to the Swiss artist Hans Josephsohn and houses reliefs and half-figures by the sculptor. Peter Märkli was born in 1953 in Zürich, Switzerland. Since 2003 he is professor at the ETH Zürich.

A video featuring the Daylight-Award 2012 winning project Kirchner Museum Davos by Gigon Guyer Architects is available on this page.

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Gigon / Guyer Architects are the winners of the Daylight-Award, which the Velux-Stiftung awarded for the third time after 2007 and 2010. The Daylight-Award is a prize that honors architecture projects, that systematically use daylight in order to increase quality of life and energy efficiency. The architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer received the award for their Kirchner Museum in Davos, Switzerland. The Kirchner Museum houses significant works by German expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. In this video, Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer talk about how important daylight is for their personal well-being, how they use daylight in their projects, and the challenges and solutions they found for the Kirchner Museum in Davos.

The reason why the Kirchner Museum was chosen by the jury of the Daylight-Award is that its lighting concept broke ground for other museum buildings, such as Peter Zumthor’s Kunsthaus Bregenz: It’s “an innovative light-solution, adapted to the climatic conditions of Davos is the basic idea and simultaneously the architectural concept of the building. Hardly another art museum before emphasized the opus of an artist in a similar way. Its influence on further museum-buildings is therefore of an outstanding meaning.”

The prize is endowed with 100’000 Swiss Francs. The Honorary Award was given to Zurich-based architect Peter Märkli for his museum La Congiunta in Giornico (Ticino, Switzerland). Members of the jury are Prof. Andrea Deplazes, Architect, ETH Zürich, Chairman; Prof. Colin Fournier, Architect, Bartlett School of Architecture, London; Prof. Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne; Prof. Dr. Anna Wirz-Justice, Centre for Chronobiology, University of Basel; Urs Wolf, architect, Zürich; Kurt Stutz, Chairman of the board of the Velux Stiftung; Lene Kann-Rasmussen, Member of the board of the Velux Stiftung.

Velux Stiftung is a non-profit foundation for the promotion of research on Daylight and in Medical Areas and for the Preservation of Ecological Stability. In 2007, the Daylight-Award went to Bob Gysin + Partner Architects BGP in Zürich for their Forum Chriesbach in Dübendorf; the Honorary Award was won by Bearth & Deplazes Architekten, Chur / Zürich, and Gramazio & Kohler Architects, Zürich for their Gantenbein Vineyard; and Cruz & Ortiz, Seville, and Giraudi & Wettstein, Lugano for their footbridge Basel SBB Railway Station. In 2010 Peter Zumthor won the prize for his Theme Vals. Honorary Awards went to James Turrell for the Skyspace Piz Uter; and Stürm Wolf Architekten for the Kunst(Zeug)Haus Rapperswil-Jona.

The Daylight-Award was awarded for the third time on 18th January 2012 in Basel in collaboration with the Department of Architecture of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (D-ARCH ETH), Zurich.

PS: Slideshow and video coverage of the award ceremony after the jump. Video featuring Honorary Award winner Peter Märkli’s Museum La Congiunta in Giornico (Ticino, Switzerland) coming soon.

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Velux Stiftung Daylight-Award 2012 Award Ceremony (Excerpt):

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The Collectors Show: Chimera at the Singapore Art Museum brings together Asian contemporary art from private collections. Among the artists presented are Hamra Abbas, Patricia Eustaquio, Bharti Kher, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Yong Baek, Li Hui, Lin Tianmiao, Takashi Murakami, and Tabaimo.

The exhibition is titled Chimera, and references both the mythological hybrid monster and the idea of an illusion, fantasy, or delusion. The show presents contemporary art in all its various and hybrid forms, from painting to sculpture, to new media and interactive multimedia.

The Collectors Show: Chimera is a parallel event of Art Stage Singapore 2012 and independently organised by the Singapore Art Museum.

The Collectors Show: Chimera at Singapore Art Museum. Opening reception, January 13, 2012.

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The Kuala Lumpur-based art space 12 set up a photo studio at the international art fair Art Stage Singapore 2012. The installation is based on a photography studio in Tangkak, Malaysia that opened in 1964 and still operates to this day. The installation also features work by the artists Shooshie Sulaiman, Ismail Hashim, Ahmad Fuad Osman, and Puah Chin Kok.

12 is located in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur. Its exhibition program is run by artist and exhibition maker Shooshie Sulaiman. Fatina Alifis Zolkifli leads 12′s archival team.

Photo Studio Installation at Art Stage Singapore 2012 by 12 (Art Space). Singapore, January 11, 2012.

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In the context of the art fair Art Stage Singapore 2012, the Gao Brothers aufrufen people to participate in their “World Hug Day“. The idea behind this performance is to gather a big group of strangers together to hug each other. The “WHD” public performances by the Gao Brothers started in China in 2000, in various public locations across the country, and later was held in other parts of the world, including the USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan and now Singapore.

“World Hug Day” by the Gao Brothers presented by Vue Privée Gallery, Singapore. Performance at Marina Bay Sands Event Plaza, Singapore, January 14, 2012.

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On the occasion of the VIP Preview of the fair, VernissageTV had the chance to meet Audrey Yeo, the Director of Galerie8, London. In this video, Audrey Yeo, who is Singaporean, talks about the concept of the gallery, the Singaporean art scene, her plans to open up a gallery space in Singapore in addition to the gallery in London, and one of the artists she brought to Art Stage Singapore 2012, Jarek Piotrowski. Currently, Jarek Piotrowski will have a solo show with the gallery in London running from January 20 to March 11, 2012.

Galerie8 at Art Stage Singapore 2012. Interview with Audrey Yeo (Director, Galerie8), January 11, 2012.

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Edwin’s Gallery from Jakarta, Indonesia has set up an exhibition of Indonesian Kinetic Art at Singapore’s international art fair Art Stage Singapore. Titled Mechan(aesthete)ics, the show presents kinetic work by Hardiman Radjab, Rudi Hendriatno, Bagus Pandega, and Heri Dono. While Dono and Radjab are pioneers of kinetic art in Indonesia, Hendriatno and Pandega represent the new generation of artists who create kinetic art. In this video, the founder of the gallery, Edwin Rahardjo talks about the concept of the exhibition, the artists, and kinetic art in Indonesia.

Mechan(aesthet)ics. Edwin’s Gallery Jakarta at Art Stage Singapore. January 11, 2012.

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Art Stage Singapore is an international art fair held annually in Singapore. The second edition of Art Stage Singapore takes place at the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre on 12 to 15 January 2012. Over 100 galleries take part in the art fair this year. Art Stage Singapore aims to separate itself from other art fairs in Asia by not copying a Western show, but showing an own strong (Asian) identity. Among the exhibitors are major galleries from Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, Seoul, Beijing, Jakarta, Tokyo, Sydney, Taipei, Mumbai, as well as well-known dealers from Europe and the US. Art Stage Singapore also features a lecture series, and various fringe programs. This video provides you with a tour through the fair on the opening day.

On display are works by artists such as The Gao Brothers (Vue Privée Gallery, Singapore); Bai Yiluo (LDX Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, Hong Kong); Karim Rashid (Art Plural Gallery, Singapore); Chen Wenling (Ode To Art Contemporary, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur); Mr. (Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York); Ron Arad (Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, Hong Kong); Ujino (Nanzuka and Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo); Marc Rembold (Laleh June Gallery, Basel); Gilbert & George (White Cube, London); Rob Pruitt (Massimo de Carlo, Milan); and Wim Delvoye (Galerie Perrotin, Paris, Hong Kong).

Art Stage Singapore 2012 art fair at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. VIP Preview & Cocktail and Vernissage, January 11, 2012.

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The 2007 exhibition “Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955 – 1965″ at Kunstmuseum Basel presented the groundbreaking early work of Jasper Johns, beginning in the mid-1950s with such famous works as “Target with Four Faces”. The show brought together around seventy key works on loan from museums and private collections in the US and Europe. It traced the relationship of four specific motifs: the target, the mechanical “device”, the naming colors, and the imprint of the body. The shots in this video are from the press preview and the vernissage of the exhibition on June 1st, 2007.

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Jen DeNike presents a new performance piece ’Iemanjá’ at Art Public. Ritual life formed the basis of most ancient cultures as a codification of memory and the transmission of cultural values, yet few people today understand the meaning and origins behind most ceremonies. The centre of Jen DeNike’s the performance at Art Public forms a star-shaped sand-castle on the beach, around which seven women worship the Brazilian seagoddess Iemanjá, with dance and song. They provide a platform for the celebration of a live experiential space whose focus lies in evolving a social relationship between the audience and performers, while maintaining a sense of visual aestheticism and spectacle.

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Jen DeNike: Iemanjá. Performance at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. December 4, 2011.

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Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity is the title of an exhibition at The Wolfsonian-FIU design museum in Miami Beach that has a look at French design from the 1940s to today. On display are furniture, industrial design, and craft by some of the most celebrated French designers. The show presents models, prototypes and mass-produced designs by Philippe Starck, Pierre Charpin, Laurent Massaloux, Jérôme Olivet, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Piere Paulin, Michel Ducaroy, Martin Szekely, Jean Royère, Serge Mouille, Jean Prouvé, and Roger Tallon, among others.

The show borrows its title from the French national motto Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and investigates how French design embodies the ideas that have defined French public life. It explores French design and its relationship to national identity. For the exhibition design the curatorial team conceived a system of wood units that are painted in the colors of the French flag. They serve as stools, pedestals, and other display elements, and are based on Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier’s Modulor, a measuring system derived from the proportions of the human body.

In this video, Marianne Lamonaca talks about how this exibition came about, the concept of the show, the collaboration between the curators, characteristics of French design, and the future of design.

The exhibition Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity is based on the design objects of the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris. It has been realized in a collaboration between The Wolfsonian’s Marianne Lamonaca, and France-based design professionals Matali Crasset, M/M (Paris) (Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak), and Alexandra Midal.

Philippe Starck is one of the best-known French designers. In the 1990s, Starck as artistic director developed a series of consumer electronics prototypes for Tim Thom, the research and development department of the French electronics company Thomson. Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity presents several prototypes of this Dream Products series, such as the Perso portable videophone or the Krazy Jacket personal stereo.

Another section is dedicated to the work of Roger Tallon (1929-2011), one of the most important French industrial designers. Tallon gave form to hundreds of products as diverse as silverware, chairs, typewriters, tv sets, watches, refrigerators, industrial robots, and trains. On display at The Wolfsonian are his TS folding chair (1967), the Pin Spot floor lamp (1972), and the Portavia P111 portable television (1963), among others.

Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity: French Design from the 1940s to Today / The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach. Interview with Marianne Lamonaca (Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs and Education, The Wolfsonian–FIU). Miami Beach, December 2, 2011.

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Complete Interview (11:56 Min.):

Gardar Eide Einarsson’s spray-painted steel sculpture that was on display within the framework of Art Basel Miami Beach’s Art Public section both relates to prison exercise equipment as well as to the concept of Minimalist sculpture. Placed on the beach near Collins Park, the beach-goers soon realized how to use it, as shown in this video.

More Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 Art Public videos: A Sermon On Art History by Theaster Gates and The Black Monks of Mississippi; Glenn Kaino: Levitating the Fair (The flying Merchant Ship). Coming soon: Jen DeNike: Iemanjá (performance).

Gardar Eide Einarsson: Untitled (Apparatus), 2011. Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach 2011. December 4, 2011.

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‘Untitled (Apparatus)’ by Gardar Eide Einarsson is a sculpture based on prison exercise equipment. Prison design and architecture repre- sent to the artists a zero state of design, where all traditional design considerations are jettisoned in favor of a design that exclusively seeks to prevent certain behaviors, generally focusing on not lending itself to the infliction of bodily harm. In this, it shares similarities with generic outdoor furniture of the kind found in city parks across the United States and the world. The sculpture has a strong visual affinity to Minimalist sculpture and shares Minimalism’s preoccupation with the relationship between sculpture and the body of the spectator. The sculpture in this case could possibly be used as a way to actually transform the body through exercise. This again relates back to the problematic relationship between the body and theories of discipline and control as effected through exercise and the shaping of the body, relevant in a city with a strong beach culture. (press, Art Basel Miami Beach)

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1. Matti Suuronen’s Futuro at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

2. La Biennale di Venezia 2011: ILLUMInazioni / Arsenale

3. Ai Weiwei: Art / Architecture at Kunsthaus Bregenz

4. Inaugural Opening of Museo Soumaya in Mexico City

5. The Armory Show 2011

6. Tomás Saraceno: Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin / Interview with Tomás Saraceno

7. Frieze Art Fair 2011

8. George Condo: Mental States / New Museum, New York

9. Martin Creed: Mothers. Hauser & Wirth London, Savile Row

10. Art Basel Miami Beach 2011


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• Karen Archey’s Rhizome’s Editor-at-Large Picks Top 10 for 2011 (Rhizome.org)
• The Top Ten Art Shows of 2011 by Bill Clinton Jerry Saltz (New York Magazine)
• Top 10 Exhibitions in Brooklyn in 2011 by Benjamin Sutton (The L Magazine)
• Top 10 Street Art and Graffiti Stories of 2011 (LA Weekly Blogs)
• Designboom 2011 top ten: institutional + cultural structures
• Top 10 area art exhibitions of 2011 (The Orange County Register)
• The 10 Best Art Exhibitions Of 2011 (Complex)
• The 25 Most Important Artists Of 2011 (Complex)
• Top 11 L.A. Art Shows of 2011 by Mat Gleason at HuffPost Arts