He is a complex architectural garden made of a lawn, a big platform and a light volume suspended in front of the concrete walls of MAXXI’s galleries, created by the emerging architectures studio bam! from Turin, composed by Alberto Bottero, Valeria Bruni, Simona Della Rocca, Fabio Vignolo. The protagonist of the scene is the large suspended volume, which through its size, color, the recreational use of water and its shadow establishes an interaction with the museum outdoor spaces, receiving its resting places.
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The breath of water
Index – Art Basel
This week, the art world once again draws its attention to the Swiss Alps and gathers in beautiful Basel to find out what galleries from around the world have to offer, explore new talents at Satellite fairs such as Liste or Volta or even rediscover artists who might have faded away from the spotlight for a while.
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The current exhibition at the EIGEN + ART Lab is showing different positions of three young international artists in the fields of painting, drawing, photography and installation. Isabelle Borges, featured in our current printed Issue, born in Brazil in 1966, describes in her abstract paintings the search after a space.
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As every second year, since 1895, the Venice Biennale reunites the art elite of the world and those who want to be part of it. Every time different, every time crazy, every time over-discussed, this 55th edition is a special one for many reasons. Starting with the climate that bummed everyone out, from the hostesses at the Giardini to the Sheik of Abu Dhabi, or the absolute record of participations, 138 artists from 38 countries.
Read moreTauba Auerbach – Tetrachroma
Tauba Auerbach is considered one of the most innovative painters of our time. Her work collapses traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content. Surface and the larger issues surrounding topology have been central concerns in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books.
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In art class we learned a lot about artists. Gilbert and George inspired us to do our first stop trick video seven years ago. The work of directors like Michel Gondry, Chris Cunningham and Spike Jones and the pleasure of experimenting with film inspired us to pursue the career that we are in right now.
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Today is the opening of the exhibition “Play – The Frivolous and the Serious“ at the me Collectors Room in Berlin. Curated by Philippa O’Driscoll and Anna-Antonia Stausberg. The exhibition is about the phenomenon of “playing” and is thus, the result of a collaboration between the Stiftung Olbricht and with two students of the MA programme Curating the Contemporary from the London Metropolitan University. Its the second time that the foundation invited young curators to let them curate a show with their works. This exhibition is part of Antonia Stausberg’s MA thesis. We interviewed her about the making of !
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In 9 TIMES PHILOSOPHY, Jorinde Voigt’s second solo exhibit at Klosterfelde, Berlin, the artist presents a new group of drawings based on philosophical and literary texts, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Prologue in Heaven” from Faust I, Epicurus’s “Letter to Menoeceus,” Wassily Kandinsky’s exchange of letters with Arnold Schönberg, works from Peter Sloterdijk, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Platon, Elias Canetti, and Paul Celan, and various “Haiku” from the most eminent Japanese poets.
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Mattia Lullini
We had a chat with Mattia Lullini. Drawing, painting, silkscreening and murals are the mediums he uses to create his universe of multiform and psychedelic animals. Originally from Bologna, Mattia Lullini loves the art of tribes, of the origins, of men and women from India, Oceania and Americas and in general the decorations.
Read more*New Age of Aquarius*- DUVE Berlin
Am 10. April 2013 hielt der Kurator Nadim Samman einen Vortrag über ein neues Zeitalter welches eine neue Ära der Menschheit ausmachen soll. Mit dieser Ausstellung stellt der Kurator Begrifflichkeiten wie Hoffnung und Zweifel und Wirksamkeit esoterischer Symbolik im 21. Jahrhundert in Frage. Dies ist eine Gruppenausstellung mit den Künstlern Shezad Dawood, James Howard, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Shana Moulton, Matthew Stone, Mark Titcher & Margo Trushina.
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Following the style of the exhibition Soleil Froid at Palais de Tokyo, in the 4000 m2 area of Grand Palais, Paris, the exhibition Dynamo reveals how, over the last fifteen years, many artists have explored the notions of vision, space, light, structure and movement in their work, often encouraging visitors to take an active role in their installations: notable examples include the changing chromatic atmospheres of Olafur Eliasson and Ann Veronica Janssens, the vibrating structures and kaleidoscopic mirrors of Jeppe Hein and Anish Kapoor, and the in situ creations of Felice Varini.
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Back in February I came across this video, which featured two friends of mine in an urban western scene in Brooklyn in New York City. Being astonished by the music, the video and the actors I dreamt of showing this compilation on #Horst und Edeltraut Online. However back then it was still in the making; nobody knew about it and I guess I was not supposed to. Thus, I kept quiet and waited until its release day…
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