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Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture / Saatchi Gallery, London

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:41:08 +0000

The Saatchi Gallery on King’s Road, London, opened in October 2008 with an exhibition dedicated to new art from China. The current exhibition entitled “Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture” (runs until January 17, 2010) brings together new work of more than 40 American artists, among them: Kristin Baker, John Bauer, Mark Bradford, Tom Burr, Joe Bradley, Jedediah Caesar, Carter, Eric and Heather ChanSchatz, Peter Coffin, Guerra de la Paz, Francesca DiMattio, Bart Exposito, Mark Grotjahn, Jacob Hashimoto, Rachel Harrison, Patrick Hill, Ryan Johnson, Matt Johnson, Paul Lee, Chris Martin, Elizabeth Neel, Baker Overstreet, Stephen G. Rhodes, Amanda Ross-Ho, Sterling Ruby, Gedi Sibony, Amy Sillman, Agathe Snow, Kirsten Stoltmann, Dan Walsh, Jonas Wood, Aaron Young.

Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture / Saatchi Gallery, London. Exhibition walkthrough, June 25, 2009.

For reviews see: Review overview at Saatchi Online.

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Selected Works From a Private Collection: Thomas Kinkade / Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:40:58 +0000

In 2008, German artist Christian Jankowski engaged professional teleshopping hosts for his parodistic shopping channel Kunstmarkt TV - Art Market TV for selling artworks by renowned artists like Jeff Koons. The performance was recorded by VernissageTV at our studio at Open Space / Art Cologne 2008 and broadcast live on our livestreaming platform. The footage was used for Jankowski’s video of the same name.

Someone who has started to use teleshopping channels already long ago is the American painter Thomas Kinkade (born in 1958, lives and works in Sacramento). Besides that, Kinkade uses other ultra-commercial marketing strategies as well. Thomas Kinkade, the “Painter of Light”, is promoting and selling his products - prints, gifts, golf gear - via teleshopping channels, his website, online gallery and shop, a blog, a newsletter, membership in the Thomas Kinkade Collector’s Society, a YouTube channel, authorized galleries and retailers, etc. “Thomas Kinkade, The Painter of Light, creates glorious paintings from simple inspirations: family, tradition, community and a celebration of the beauty and goodness of God’s creation. These motivations have illuminated the body of work that is collected and cherished throughout the world.” (statement from the Thomas Kinkade Company website).

The exhibition “Selected Works From a Private Collection: Thomas Kinkade” at Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts in Zurich / Switzerland, takes a closer look at the phenomenon Thomas Kinkade. The show presents printouts of Kinkade’s website, and a collection of Kinkade-products such as prints, and licensed partner products such as wallcoverings, books, and puzzles.

“On the basis of a choice of „Kinkade-products“ the week-long exhibition Selected Works From A Private Collection: Thomas Kinkade aims to take a closer look at this phenomenon that is undermining any kind of etiquettes of “good art”. Especially in the course of the current economic crisis after the boom and its influence on the artworld – with a look on Kinkades practice of a maximised effort - or rather marketing-strategy of shallow contents – questions on our expectations and ideas about art and also about how ascriptions of value and art marketing work today, can be asked again. Another aspect in the business of Kinkade is his handling with master and copy: on the one hand Kinkade offers, a maximised democratisation of art by reproductions of artworks that are affordable as well easily available by mail. At the same time the works try to imitate masters by the addition of «real» brush strokes that are painted by assistants directly on some of the prints. The masters do not attain the market and move from one licensed Kinkade-gallery to the next. …
At the same time Kinkade is maintaining a mannered handling with likewise available «limited masters». These much more expensive works are furnished each with an applied hair of the artist as a ultimate gesture to demonstrate originality. Thus the exhibition of the “phenomenon Kinkade” – to emphasize at this point once more that the interest of the project is not prime in formal-aesthetic questions – is of great interest precisely in the commercial context of a gallery where the discussion how to bargain values of symbol- and current values ever is debated anew.” (Excerpt of an accompanying text by Valérie Knoll with assistance by Raphael Gygax).

Selected Works From a Private Collection: Thomas Kinkade, a concept by Raphael Gygax. Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich / Switzerland. Opening reception, July 2, 2009. The exhibition runs until July 11, 2009.

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Dropstuff.nl at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:10:44 +0000

Dropstuff.nl is a platform for media art and e-culture that broadcasts artworks by professional artists and designers on a network of Dropstuff Hotspots in (Dutch) museums, libraries, railway stations, schools and art academies. Base camp is the “glass house-pavilion”, a mobile AV-studio space with a gigantic LED screen that travels round various cities.

Dropstuff.nl has been invited to take part in the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia as collateral event. From June 2 -7, 2009, during the opening days of the biennale, Dropstuff.nl set up the gigantic 60 square meters LED screen on the pier between San Marco and Giardini (Riva Ca’ di Dio). Dropstuff’s main focus in Venice was to show a new generation of artists and designers, who approach the audience in a direct manner. No white museum walls, but interactive art in public space. By using SMS, bluetooth, touch screen and sensors, the audience was participating in the art work.

Birdsdays by Wayne Horse is not a cute Tamagotchi but an arrogant, ugly rooster which is giving orders to the audience. Leonard van Munster lets the audience do magic with words, which are generated by Google. David Kousemaker and Tim Olden of Blendid present a work which is controlled live from India, by an Indian employee who responds on people who pass by in Venice. Next to the ones mentioned, also works from Guido van der Werve and Klaas Kloosterboer are shown.

Dropstuff is a concept and initiative of designer René van Engelenburg, developed in cooperation with Edwin Jacobs, director of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The project is realized by Pleinmuseum Foundation, Amsterdam. i.c.w. the following Dutch museums: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden, Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Museum De Paviljoens in Almere, Armando Museum and Kade in Amersfoort, Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, SM’s in Den Bosch and Marres in Maastricht.

Venice Biennale 2009. Venice, June 4, 2009.

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Silvia Bächli / Swiss Pavilion / Venice Biennale 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:38:53 +0000

Silvia Bächli from Basel and Fabrice Gygi from Geneva represent Switzerland at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Silvia Bächli shows drawings in the Swiss Pavilion in the Giardini, Fabrice Gygi presents an installation in the Church of San Stae.

In this video, we have a look at Silvia Bächli’s works in the Swiss Pavilion. Bächli studied in Basel and Geneva. She is known for her drawings, which she has consistently developed over three decades. For the rooms in the Swiss Pavilion, she presents her work from 2008 - 2009 in the form of a spatial synopsis that offers a representative insight into her graphic oeuvre.

Silvia Bächli at the Swiss Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009. Venice, June 4, 2009.

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Never-Ever Land / Design Miami Basel 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:59:15 +0000

At Design Miami Basel 2009 Natalie Kovacs curated a show for Carpenters Workshop Gallery entitled Never-Ever Land. Located at the Design Miami entrance, Never-Ever land presented an alternative functional sculpture garden, “exploring the possibility for design to entertain, enliven and enlighten”. Among the pieces on display were the Sensory Deprivation Skull by Atelier van Lieshout, the Mountain Chair by Marc Quinn, the aluminium bench Spaghetti Corten by Pablo Reinoso. Another work by Atelier van Lieshout is the Mini Capsule Hotel. The Mini Capsule Hotel is a self-operated hotel that can house up to 6 couples “in a straightforward lodging, not unlike hutches for rabbits”. Brad Pitt bought the piece for his kids, by the way. In this video, Raphaele Shirley talks with curator Natalie Kovacs about the Mini Capsule Hotel and the concept of her exhibition Never-Ever Land.

Design Miami Basel 2009. Basel / Switzerland, June 8, 2009.

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Roman Ondak: Loop / Czech and Slovak Pavilion / Venice Biennale 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:43:25 +0000

For the Slovak Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition Biennale di Venezia, Roman Ondák has developed a work that deals with the relationship between reality and art. Roman Ondák takes the park landscape between the exhibition pavilions in Venice’s Giardini Publici with their bushes, trees and paths, and replicates and places it in the interior of the pavilion. So the external reality continues into the art space. The path to the pavilion leads without interruption or obstacles into the building on one side, crosses through it and leads out of it again on the other side.

Roman Ondák was born in 1966 in Zilina, Slovakia. He is currently considered one of the most significant representatives of neo-conceptual strategies. He was a DAAD scholarship holder in Berlin (2007-2008) and has presented his work in group shows and individual exhibitions such as at Tate Modern (2006) and the Museum of Modern Art (2009). Roman Ondák lives and works in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Roman Ondak: Loop, Czech and Slovak Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2009. Venice, June 4, 2009.

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Lucy Skaer and Danh Vo at Kunsthalle Basel

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:05:52 +0000

Until June 14, Kunsthalle Basel presented the first major institutional exhibition outside of Great Britain by Lucy Skaer (born 1975 in Cambridge). On the ground floor of the Kunsthalle Basel, Lucy Skaer is presenting three installations created specially for the exhibition as well as existing works, including her 16 mm film Eleonora (The Joker), 2006 and a recent installation, The Siege, (commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery in London in 2008). Lucy Skaer makes sculptures, films and drawings mainly based on photographs sourced from newspapers and books as well as pictures taken off the Internet, and assembles them in installations.

Until August 23, 2009, Kunsthalle Basel presents Where the Lions Are, the first major institutional exhibition by Danh Vo. Danh Vo (born in 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam) is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen and the Städelschule, Frankfurt. He currently lives and works in Berlin. In 2008 he participated, among other exhibitions, in Manifesta 7, Rovereto. This year, he has been nominated for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst.

Danh Vo’s ongoing interest in the reasons for France’s involvement in Southeast Asia developed into a new body of work, which is presented at Kunsthalle Basel. The artist draws on three different archives that link together important moments in the history of Vietnam: the role of the missionaries sent to Southeast Asia by the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris in the 19th century, the official ending of the Vietnam war negotiated in Paris, and elements of Vo’s biography.

Lucy Skaer – A Boat Used as a Vessel and Danh Vo: Where the Lions Are / Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland. Art Basel Event, June 10, 2009.

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Mona Hatoum: Interior Landscape / Fondazione Querini Stampalia / Venice, Italy

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:18:50 +0000

The Fondazione Querini Stampalia currently presents a major solo exhibition with new works by Mona Hatoum. The exhibition, entitled Interior Landscape, coincided with the opening of the 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and takes place over two floors of the museum – both in the contemporary exhibition spaces as well as within the existing Museum collection in this historic building, formerly the home of the Querini Stampalia family. Mona Hatoum: Interior Landscape includes over 25 works, many of which are new or previously unseen in Europe.

“New works in the exhibition include Interior Landscape (after which the exhibition is named), a haunting installation of bedroom furniture and domestic elements that imagines the conflict between the dreams and aspirations of a Palestinian individual juxtaposed with the harsh reality they have to face. Another large work created specifically for the space is a delicate and precariously suspended installation made of barbed wire. Hot Spot III is a metal globe with its continents outlined in glowing red neon shown in the proximity of what looks like an enlargement of a rosary or “worry beads” where the beads have been scaled up to the size of cannon balls. As well as these new works, Hatoum will be making a number of interventions in the museum collection using the furniture as the container or frame for some new ideas and some existing works which, when placed in this historic setting, generate different meanings.” (excerpt from the press release).

Mona Hatoum: Interior Landscape at Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice / Italy. Opening reception, June 3, 2009.

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:mentalKLINIK: PuFF / Art Unlimited / Art 40 Basel 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:08:15 +0000

Turkish artist duo :mentalKLINIK’s installation PuFF reminds of a boxing ring with little black robots fighting against each other and the glitter that is sprayed on the floor of the ring. PuFF attempts to create an unidentified space, an indecisive zone of repetition replete with the absurdity of a floor, which is continually filled with glitter only so that it can be continually vacuumed.

:mentalKLINIK was founded in 2000 by Yasemin Baydar (born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1972) and Birol Demir (born in Ankara, Turkey, in 1967). Art 40 Basel 2009.

PuFF was presented by Galerist gallery, Istanbul, in the Art Unlimited sector of Art 40 Basel 2009. Basel / Switzerland, June 8, 2009.

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Liam Gillick / German Pavilion / Venice Biennale 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:45:45 +0000

In Liam Gillick’s German Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 one meets a kitchen and a cat. The kitchen is inspired by the design of the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen) by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Conceived in 1926, the Frankfurt Kitchen with its functional form was intended to optimize household workflows. The first prototypes of today’s built-in kitchen were integrated into more than 10,000 public housing units in Frankfurt, Germany. The (animatronic) cat sits on top of the kitchen and fights against the echo in the building and tells us a circular story of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and desire.

In this video, Liam Gillick talks about how his German Pavilion should be experienced, and Ralf Schlüter of the German art magazine Art – Das Kunstmagazin reviews Liam Gillick’s work (in German language).

Liam Gillick at the German Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009, June 4, 2009.

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rAndom International: Audience / Design Miami Basel 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:26:48 +0000

This is an interview with Hannes Koch, part of the design collective rAndom International (together with Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass). At this year’s Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presented rAndom International’s Audience. Audience is an installation conceived by rAndom International in collaboration with Chris O’Shea. It consists of around 64 head-size mirror objects.

In this conversation with Raphaele Shirley, Hannes Koch talks about the piece - the concept behind, how it works, how people react to the piece, ideas for variations of the piece - and other topics such as the special nature of media art / design concerning hardware and maintenance, and future projects.

RAndom International’s Audience installation has been awarded an honorable mention in the Interactive Art category of the Prix Ars Electonica 2009.

How does it work: “Each object moves its head in a particular way to give it different characteristics of human behavior. Some chat amongst themselves, some shy away and others confidently move to grab your attention. When members of the audience enter the perimeter of the installation, the mirrors inquisitively follow someone that they find interesting. Having chosen their subject, they all synchronize and turn their heads towards them. Suddenly that person can see their reflection in all of the mirrors. They will watch this person until they become disinterested, then either seek out another subject or return to their private chatter. The collective behavior of the objects is beyond the control of the viewer, as it is left entirely to their discretion to let go of their subject, with the installation aiming to reverse the roles of the viewer and the viewed during this in-voluntary interaction.”

rAndom International: Audience / Carpenters Workshop Gallery / Design Miami Basel 2009. Basel / Switzerland, June 8, 2009.

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Sarah Oppenheimer: VP-41 / Art 40 Basel 2009, Art Unlimited

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:31:42 +0000

At this year’s Art Basel, the galleries von Bartha, Basel, and Annely Juda Fine Art, London, in co-operation with Duve, Berlin, and P.P.O.W., New York, presented a large-scale installation by New York based artist Sarah Oppenheimer.

Sarah Oppenheimer’s VP-41 is a periscope embedded within a particular architecture. The periscope itself is constructed out of bent plywood and two mirrors. From the exterior of the structure, the viewer gazes through a double aperture. The lower aperture reflects into an interior elevated room, the upper aperture extends the line of sight through the booth and into the adjacent booths. On the opposite side, other visitors return the viewer’s gaze.

In this video, Sarah Oppenheimer explains how the piece works, and the gallerists Stefan von Bartha and Alexander Duve talk about the challenges to produce art works for the Unlimited sector of Art Basel.

For more information on Sarah Oppenheimer’s work see also VernissageTV’s documentation of her Artist Talk at the American Academy in Berlin on October 30, 2008, and the coverage of the opening of her exhibition at Duve Berlin on October 31, 2009.

Sarah Oppenheimer: VP-41 / Art Unlimited, Art 40 Basel 2009 art fair. June 10. 2009.

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Elmgreen & Dragset: The Collectors at Venice Biennial 2009 / Interview with Ingar Dragset

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:24:00 +0000

In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the Nordic Pavilion, and the audience’s reaction to the show.

In the previous episode, we had a look at the Danish Pavilion by taking a guided tour with an alleged real estate agent. It’s still on sale, time to invest in real estate ;–) The neighboring Nordic Pavilion by Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has been turned into a flamboyant bachelor’s pad that features contemporary art by Wolfgang Tillmans, Tom of Finland, and others, as well as iconic design pieces and a swimming pool.

More than twenty artists and designers of all ages have contributed to the show, ranging from established to emerging ones. Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset’s exhibition is also a first time collaboration between the Danish and the Nordic Pavilion and the first joint venture of two national pavilions in the Biennale. The Collectors has earned Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset a special mention (Curating Worlds) for their curatorial work for the Danish and Nordic Pavilion from the Biennale jury of the 53rd International Art Exhibition.

Elmgreen & Dragset: The Collectors. 53rd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial 2009. Interview with Ingar Dragset, June 6, 2009. Interview: Raphaele Shirley.

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The Collectors. Curated by Elmgreen & Dragset / Danish Pavilion / Venice Biennial 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:32:17 +0000

For the 53rd Venice Biennale, the Danish and Nordic Pavilions host “The Collectors“, an exhibition curated and staged by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. With contributions from twenty-four international artists, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset transform the Danish and Nordic Pavilions into domestic environments, and invite the audience to be guests in them.

In Elmgreen & Dragset’s exhibition concept, the Danish Pavilion in the Giardini in Venice is for sale. The public is guided on a tour by a Vigilante real estate agent through a “For Sale” Danish Pavilion, and is told the story of the family dramas that used to haunt the house. This video is an excerpt of such a tour we attended on June 4, 2009. For the full-length version, click here!

In an upcoming episode we will have a look at the Nordic Pavilion and talk with Ingar Dragset about the concept of the exhibition.

The artists and designers included in the exhibition are: Thora Dolven Balke, Massimo Bartolini, Hernan Bas, Guillaume Bijl, Maurizio Cattelan, Elmgreen & Dragset, Pepe Espaliú, Tom of Finland, Simon Fujiwara, Han & Him, Laura Horelli, Martin Jacobson, William E. Jones, Terence Koh, Jani Leinonen, Klara Lidén, Jonathan Monk, Nico Muhly, Norway Says, Henrik Olesen, Nina Saunders, Vibeke Slyngstad, Sturtevant and Wolfgang Tillmans. Other features Fredrik Sjöberg’s Fly Collection, Massimo De Carlo’s Porcelain Collection, Collected Etnographica, Real Estate Agents performed by Helen Statman & Trevor Stuart.

The Collectors is not a group show in the conventional sense. The pavilions will undergo a radical reconstruction, and more than twenty artists and designers of all ages, ranging from established to emerging ones, will contribute to creating a different kind of exhibition format, one that will appear closer to a film set than a conventional art display. The curators aim to establish a unique atmosphere of intimacy with their staged exhibition ‐ one that can run counter to the official spectacle and formal nature of the Biennale – and, in close collaboration with the participating artists and designers, they hope to circumvent all the usual competitive aspects of the larger art event.

The Collectors. Curated by Elmgreen & Dragset. Danish Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennial 2009. La Biennale di Venezia 2009: Fare Mondi (Making Worlds). Professional Preview, June 4, 2009.

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Tobias Rehberger: Was du liebst, bringt dich auch zum Weinen (Cafeteria) / Venice Biennale 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:56:39 +0000

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 for taking us beyond the white cube, where past modes of exhibition are reinvented and the work of art turns into a cafeteria. In this shift social communication becomes aesthetic practice.”

La Biennale di Venezia 2009: Fare Mondi (Making Worlds). Professional Preview, June 4, 2009.

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Art 40 Basel 2009 / Art Unlimited Preview / Part 2/2

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:42:06 +0000

Art Basel’s Art Unlimited exhibition is the art fair’s sector for large sculptures, and installation and video art. In the first part of our exhibition walkthrough we had a look at works by Elisabetta Benassi, Yoshitomo Nara, Beat Zoderer, Sislej Xhafa, Ayse Erkmen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Fabrice Gygi, Surdashan Shetty, Farhad Moshiri, Jesús Fafael Soto, Sterling Ruby, Laurence Weiner, Franz Erhard Walter, Steven Shearer, Nedko Solakov, :Mentalklinik, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Stephan Balkenhol, and Matthew Day Jackson. In this part, there’s the works of Gabriele di Matteo, Li Dafang, Willem Boshoff, David Shrigley, Marcel van Eeden, Mel Bochner, Anthony McCall, Sigmar Polke, Steven Shearer, Lawrence Weiner, Goran Petercol, Aernout Mik, Stephan Balkenhol, Tatjana Doll, Chen Zhen, Natalie Djurberg, Sarah Oppenheimer, Bharti Kher, Falke Pisano, Clegg & Guttmann, Banks Violette, and Hans op de Beeck.
The Public Art Projects feature works by Mark Handforth, Jeppe Hein, Valentin Carron, General Idea, John McCracken, Mathieu Mercier, and Ken Price.
Art 40 Basel, Art Unlimited sector. Impressions from the preview. Basel, June 8, 2009.

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Monica Bonvicini and Tom Burr at Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:25:20 +0000

Lenbachhaus Kunstbau presents an exhibition with works by Monica Bonvicini and Tom Burr. Monica Bonvicini (*1965 in Venice, lives in Berlin) and Tom Burr (*1963 in New Haven, Connecticut, lives in New York) share an interest in the functional purposes of social spaces and their psychological, social and gender-specific conventions. This mutual interest manifests itself in very different types of photographs, drawings, sculptures and installations. But common to both oeuvres is the question of the dynamics of power reflected in architecture, behaviour and action. Enthusiasm for the almost libidinous quality of surfaces and materials is a further bond between Monica Bonvicini and Tom Burr’s artistic output. The juxtaposition of their works brings out both the similarities and the contrasts between their aesthetic strategies.
Introduction by the curator of the exhibition and co-director of Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Matthias Mühling. Video by Gürsoy Dogtas.
The exhibition is presented in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland

Monica Bonvicini / Tom Burr, Lenbachhaus Kunstbau, Munich / Germany. Opening reception, May 29, 2009.

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Art 40 Basel 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:03:28 +0000

More than forty years ago, a small group of Basel gallerists decided to launch an art fair. Art Basel’s debut in 1970 was an art fair with 120 exhibitors from ten countries. It then had around 16′000 visitors. Today, Art 40 Basel features galleries from 31 countries in Europe, America, and Asia and more than 60′000 visitors are expected.

International art fair Art 40 Basel 2009. An extended walkthrough. June 9, 2009.

Art 40 Basel 2009, First Choice, Preview, Vernissage. June 9, 2009.

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Design Miami Basel 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:52:52 +0000

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 commissions, and 3 Satellite exhibitions by rAndom International, Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Maarten Baas.

VernissageTV is going to publish episodes on the Satellite exhibitions with rAndom International and Carpenters Workshop Gallery, soon. This video includes a glimpse at Maarten Baas’ work Real Time. For this exhibition, Maarten Baas has assumed the role of film director to re-conceptualize traditional clock forms. From the old style analog alarm to the modern digital time counter, he creates the devices from zero, inventing new languages for the interfaces and the external housing. Through lyrical, theatrical narratives, Baas animates time with true and living lancets, involving hundreds of actors filmed in real-time intervals of 12 or 24 hours.

Design Miami Basel 2009. Preview, June 8, 2009.

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Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens / US Pavilion / 53rd Venice Biennale 2009

contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:52:46 +0000

Bruce Nauman’s exhibition Topological Gardens, currently on view at the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Biennale, has won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. The Biennale stated that Bruce Nauman’s work “reveals the magic of meaning as it emerges through relentless repetition of language and form.”

Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens presents a thematic survey comprising four decades of Bruce Nauman’s innovative and provocative work over three exhibition sites: the United States Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, Università Iuav di Venezia at Tolentini, and the Exhibition Spaces at Università Ca’ Foscari.

In this video, we have a look at Bruce Nauman’s works at the United States Pavilion at the Giardini.

La Biennale di Venezia 2009: Fare Mondi (Making Worlds). Professional Preview, June 4, 2009.

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