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This year s Art Basel Miami Beach, the sister event of Switzerland s Art Basel, again combines an international selection of top galleries with a program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. Art Basel Miami Beach 2009 First Choice, Preview and Vernissage, December 2, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

With the 2009 edition, Design Miami celebrates its 5th Anniversary. Design Miami starts a day earlier than the art fair Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB), and presents works that could also easily be shown at ABMB, Maarten Baas Real Time project, for example, or the Workshop Workshop project by Jim Drain, Graham Hudson and P. Scott Cunningham. Design Miami shows modern and contemporary design objects from 17 galleries from around the world in a stylish tent designed by Aranda/Lasch. There s a retrospective of the work of Maarten Baas, who is featured as the designer of the year, a design performance by techno-design pioneer Moritz Waldemeyer and rock band OK Go, and a huge installation by architect and designer Greg Lynn for Swarovski Crystal Palace (interviews with Greg Lynn, Maarten Baas and Atelier Oi coming soon)! Design Miami 2009. Collector s Preview and Vernissage, December 1, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

For Art Basel Miami Beach, Dorsch Gallery shows works by Miami-based artist Robert Thiele. Robert Thiele began exhibiting publicly in the early 1970s. He participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art s Biennial Exhibition in 1975. His numerous solo exhibitions include several in public institutions such as the Miami Art Museum, in 2001. Thiele has [...]Author: vernissagetv Tags: Miami no comment Robert Thiele art VernissageTV Posted: 01 December 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

The exhibition at Shift Electronic Arts Festival 2009 in Basel presented artistic projects that addressed in various ways the interface of magic and technology. One of the works on display was F18 s Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century. Living Kitchen plays with the unexpected, allowing the objects familiar in an everyday [...]Author: vernissagetv Tags: art Jan Cummerow Stefan Doepner Basel no comment VernissageTV Posted: 01 December 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

For Art Basel Miami Beach, Dorsch Gallery shows works by Miami-based artist Robert Thiele. Robert Thiele began exhibiting publicly in the early 1970s. He participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art s Biennial Exhibition in 1975. His numerous solo exhibitions include several in public institutions such as the Miami Art Museum, in 2001. Thiele has impacted generations of artists, including Gean Moreno and William Cordova, who speak strongly of his influence on them. Robert Thiele s show at Dorsch Gallery, titled 30 , presents thirty years of Thiele s work, predominantly sculpture from the 1980s and paintings from the 1990s and 2000s. A catalog will accompany the exhibition with essays by Peter Boswell, Curator at Miami Art Museum, and Helen Kohen, former art critic for the Miami Herald and currently in charge of the Vasari Project, an archive of Miami art history. Robert Thiele: 30 at Dorsch Gallery, Miami. Opening Reception, November 28, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

The exhibition at Shift Electronic Arts Festival 2009 in Basel presented artistic projects that addressed in various ways the interface of magic and technology. One of the works on display was F18 s Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century. Living Kitchen plays with the unexpected, allowing the objects familiar in an everyday kitchen to suddenly come to life in somewhat sinister fashion, almost as if ghosts, once raised, had made themselves comfortable in the exhibition hall s own kitchen. (excerpt from the press release). F18 is the creative duo of Stefan Doepner (born in 1966 in Bremen, Germany; lives and works in Ljubljana / Slovenia and Hamburg / Germany) and Jan Cummerow (born in 1970 in Kiel / Germany; lives and works in Hamburg). F18 was founded in 1996 in Hamburg. The F18Institute for Art, Information and Technology has devoted itself to robotics and art. The presentation of Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century at Shift 09 was realized with co-author Jan Cummerow and with the support by Wolfgang Werner and Lars Vaupel. More information about F18 s services, projects, collaborations, and commissioned works is available on F18 s website. F18: Living Kitchen – Happy End of the 21st Century / Shift Electronic Arts Festival, Basel. Opening, October 22, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

Marco Schuler s solo exhibition at Häusler Contemporary Zürich is the first exhibition of a new series of solo presentations of young international artists who exhibit for the first time in Switzerland. New Position I, the inaugural exhibition, presents sculptures and videos by the German artist. Marco Schuler s work revolves around notions of physical strain and [...]Author: vernissagetv Tags: no comment Zürich art VernissageTV Marco Schuler Posted: 26 November 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Marco Schuler s solo exhibition at Häusler Contemporary Zürich is the first exhibition of a new series of solo presentations of young international artists who exhibit for the first time in Switzerland. New Position I, the inaugural exhibition, presents sculptures and videos by the German artist. Marco Schuler s work revolves around notions of physical strain and testing one s physical limitations. Marco Schuler s videos resemble experimental setups. The intensity of the artist s efforts and his expressive gestures are reminiscent of rituals. In his sculptures, the artist s body is often substituted with figurative elements. Marco Schuler was born in 1972 in Bühl / Baden. He lives and works in Munich. Marco Schuler: Zauberberg. Sculptures and Videos. Häusler Contemporary Zürich, opening reception, November 19, 2009. More info via VTV contemporary art search Marco Schuler : Links | Videos | Images | More Images > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

Tatiana Trouvé is known for her room constructions, architectonic interventions, and snake-like metal sculptural objects that are semmingly solidified in movement, as if frozen. At the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich, Tatiana Trouvé presents new works in her first solo exhibition in Switzerland: an installative spatial structure with architectonic interventions and large format drawings. One of the highlights of the exhibition is the installation in the main hall of the museum, called 350 points à l infini (350 points towards eternity). It s an area with numerous pendulums that have been brought to a standstill, each of which has been sent in a different direction by an invisible magnetic field. The pendulum, an instrument frequently used in research about magnetic fields and often lending a space the character of a living organism, here takes an uncanny, mysterious character. In the antithesis of the rhythmic time-defined beat of the metronome, the organism space appears to have been cast into an artificial, deep slumber . (excerpt from the press release). Works by Tatiana Trouvé have been shown (amongst others) at the Centre Georges Pompidou (solo show, 2008), at FRAC Lorraine (solo show, 2008), and at Manifesta 7 (2008). Tatiana Trouvé: A Stay Between Enclosure and Space, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich / Switzerland. Opening reception, November 20, 2009. More info via VTV contemporary art search Tatiana Trouvé: Links | Videos | Images | More Images > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

The British artist duo John Wood and Paul Harrison present a series of short videos, drawings and text prints at Von Bartha Garage in Basel, Switzerland. The works on display date from the years 1993 to 2009. The works center around making space perceptible and making sense of the world. The range from funny to bizarre to almost documentary and their aesthetics are always very minimalist and purist. Paul Harrison was born in 1966 in Wolverhampton, GB. He lives and works in Birmingham and Bristol. John Wood born 1969 in Hong Kong. He lives and works in Bristol. Both artists graduated from Bath College of Higher Education and began collaborating in 1993. John Wood Paul Harrison: There or Thereabouts / Von Bartha Garage, Basel. Opening reception, November 13, 2009. More info via VTV contemporary art search John Wood Paul Harrison: Links | Videos | Images | More Images > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

The British artist duo John Wood and Paul Harrison present a series of short videos, drawings and text prints at Von Bartha Garage in Basel, Switzerland. The works on display date from the years 1993 to 2009. The works center around making space perceptible and making sense of the world. The range from funny to [...]Author: vernissagetv Tags: art John Wood Basel John Wood Paul Harrison Paul Harrison no comment VernissageTV Posted: 18 November 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Instituto Inhotim in Brumadinho, Brazil, recently inaugurated nine permanent large-scale works, Nine New Destinations, by the artists Chris Burden, Doug Aitken, Edgard de Souza, Janet Cardiff George Bures Miller, Jorge Macchi, Matthew Barney, Rivane Neuenschwander, Valeska Soares, and Yayoi Kusama. Inhotim is a museum complex, formed by a non-linear sequence of pavilions in the midst of a botanical garden. The new works are assembled at the top of a mountain, inside dense woods, amidst eucalyptus trees, and behind a large lake. The integration and harmony between art and the environment is an essential part of Inhotim s concept. Among the works is small hilltop building in which visitors listen to a live feed of sounds taken from a couple hundred meters within the earth via geological microphones. The work by Doug Aitken called Sonic Pavilion creates a site-specific situation in which architecture fuses with an invisible artwork that is ever changing. Another work is by Argentinian artist Jorge Macchi. Macchi is known for his watercolors of commonplace objects re-imagined as surrealistic situations reflecting different psychological states. For Inhotim, Jorge Macchi rendered one of his watercolors for the first time in three-dimensional form: the work Piscina is a sculptural realization of Macchi s drawing of a telephone book with alphabetized tabs, transformed into a site-specific work that is also a functioning swimming pool. Nine New Destinations has been curated by Allan Schwartzman, Jochen Volz, and Rodrigo Moura. The opening event on October 2, 2009, featured a performance by Arto Lindsay. This video is the first segment by our new correspondents in Brazil, Daniel Rubim and Igor Vidor. Enjoy! Nine New Destinations at Instituto Cultural Inhotim, October 5, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

An essential part of the Jenny Holzer exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Basel in Switzerland is a series of projections in public space. Since 1996 Jenny Holzer has created light projections in public spaces around the world, at sites including the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris and the facade of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. With these large scale projections, the texts she uses in these works enter a dialogue with the public building on which they are projected, its look and its history. The texts used in these projections at times are Holzer s own, and in other times are the work of others such as Wisława Szymborska (the Polish Nobel Prize winner for literature), and the American poet Henri Cole. This video documents the light projections onto Basel s City Hall (November 1, 2009), Basel s Cathedral (November 3, 2009), and the Swiss Railway Station (Bahnhof SBB, November 5, 2009). The first projection at Fondation Beyeler is part of our video about the opening of Jenny Holzer s exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler. Upcoming projections will be in Zürich (Lindenhof, projection over the Limmat, November 11 22, 2009) and in Binningen (Margarethenhügel, 2nd week of January, 2010). The exhibition at Fondation Beyeler is accompanied by a series of events. On January 12, 2010 there s an artist talk, Jenny Holzer in conversation with Jacques Herzog, Herzog De Meuron Architects. Jenny Holzer at Fondation Beyeler, Light Projections. Basel / Switzerland, November 1, 3, and 5, 2009. More info via VTV contemporary art search Jenny Holzer: Links | Videos | Images | More Images > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window. Related Articles:Jenny Holzer at Fondation Beyeler

At 9 a.m. on Wednesday 14th October 2009, the last participant of British artist Antony Gormley’s One Other project, Emma Burns, stepped onto the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. Two days before, when we filmed Trafalgar Square at dusk, it was a completely different scenery, as you can see in this video that we don t want to withhold from you: One Other at dusk, starring Michael Conlon. Antony Gormley’s One Other has seen a different person take their place on the Fourth Plinth every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days. The project has been commissioned by the Mayor of London and produced by Artichoke in partnership with Sky Arts, and supported by Arts Council England. More information about the project with a full list of plinthers profiles can be found at www.oneandother.co.uk. Antony Gormley: One Other / at dusk with Michael Conlon. Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London / UK, October 12, 2009. For the video of the Finale click this link: Antony Gormley: One Other / Finale. For our documentary of his solo exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz, click this link: Antony Gormley at Kunsthaus Bregenz. More info via VTV contemporary art search Antony Gormley: Links | Videos | Images | More Images > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window. Related Articles:Antony Gormley: One & Other / Finale

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled leader, began a weeklong visit to a remote Indian state also claimed by China, a trip that has renewed tension between the Asian giants struggling to settle an old border dispute. Author: nocommenttv Keywords: euronews nocomment dalai lama tawang india tibet Added: November 9, 2009

From the 22nd to the 25th of October 2009, the electronic arts festival SHIFT took place at the Dreispitzarea and the Schaulager in Basel / Münchenstein. This year s theme was Magic. Tech-Evocations and Assumptions of Paranormal Realities . SHIFT 2009 showcased the latest shooting stars and legendary pioneers of electro music, a conference with ten guest lecturers, a video and performance programme, and an exhibition that presented a diverse range of around 20 international positions on magic channels and the magic powers of artists and their media. Participating artists were AIDS-3D, Craig Baldwin, Zoe Beloff, Lindsay Brown, Erik Bünger, Jim Campbell, Center for Tactical Magic, Susan Collins, Bill Domonkos, The Einstein s Brain Project, F18, Atelier Hauert / Reichmuth / Boehm, Christoph Keller, Julien Maire, Tatjana Marusic, Jane D. Marsching, Shusha Niederberger, Ruth Sergel, Harm van den Dorpel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Patrick Ward. Among the works on display were F18 s Living Kitchen – Happy End of t he 21st Century (2006), an installation that allows the objects familiar in an everyday kitchen to suddenly come to life; and Julien Maire s DIGIT (2006), an installation that consists of a man seated at a table, writing a text simply by skimming his fingers over a sheet of paper. SHIFT Electronice Arts Festival Basel / Münchenstein, October 22, 2009. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

Until the 19th of December 2009, Hauser Wirth Zürich presents an exhibition of new paintings on canvas and works on paper by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal. Many works in the show relate to Wilhelm Sasnal s first ever feature-lenght film entitled Swiniopas (Swineherd), which he realized in the past year. Swiniopas is an adaption of a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale of the same name. Wilhelm Sasnal s film is shot in black and white and set in bleak, rural Poland. It s about a swineherd who smuggles letters back and forth between a farmer s daughter and her lesbian lover. Wilhelm Sasnal was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1972. He lives and works in Krakow. Major solo presentations of his work include ‘Lata walki’, Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland (2007); ‘Pintures’, 
CaixaForum, Barcelona (2007); ‘Paintings Films’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2006); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (2006); and Kunsthalle Zürich (2003). In November 2006 the artist received the prestigious Vincent Van Gogh Award. A comprehensive solo exhibition of Sasnal’s work is on view at K21, Düsseldorf, until 11 January 2010, and a solo exhibition of recent works will be at Centro de Art Contemporaneo, Malaga, Spain from 28 November 2009 – 24 January 2010. Wilhelm Sasnal at Hauser Wirth Zürich, opening reception, October 30, 2009. More info via VTV contemporary art search Wilhelm Sasnal: Links | Videos | Images | More Images > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

Jenny Holzer is considered as one of the most popular contemporary artists. Holzer is known for her use of words and ideas in public space. In 1982 she publicised her statements and aphorisms ( truisms ) on one of Times Square s gigantic LED billboards, in 2008 she created a site-specific light projection for the newly renovated facade of the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum in New York. Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel, Switzerland, is now presenting Jenny Holzer s first large sale exhibition in a Swiss museum. The focus is on recent works, some of which have never before been shown in Europe. On display are Jenny Holzer s famous LED installations, combining poetic, socio-critical, and political texts and visual effects, as welll as paintings and sculptures. The exhibition is supplemented by a selection of works the artist has chosen from the Beyeler Collection (Giacometti, Picasso, Malevich, Bacon). The presentation of Jenny Holzer s work is not confined to the museum space. The show extends outdoors to the public space. Jenny Holzer conceived light projections on key buildings and sites in Basel and Zürich. These will only be on view on special nights. The exhibition has been conceived in close cooperation with the artist and the MCA, Chicago, and curated by Elizabeth A. T. Smith and Philippe Büttner. The exhibition at Fondation Beyeler runs until January 24, 2010. Jenny Holzer at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen / Switzerland. Opening reception, October 31, 2009. PS: Like to follow Jenny Holzer on Twitter? More info via VTV contemporary art search Jenny Holzer: Links | Videos | Images | More Images > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.

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During Frieze Art Fair 2009, The Embassy, a multi-disciplinary group show, presented works by Marco Brambilla, Terence Koh, Rosey Chan, Tom Gallant, Alastair Mackie, Oliver Clegg, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Bruce French, Henry Hudson, Michael Lisle-Taylor, Laurence Owen, Karim Rabik, Hugo Wilson and Yarisal Kublitz. Curated by Dellal and Xerxes Cook, the exhibition was intended to be a parody of outmoded cultural diplomacy in the form of an anonymous country’s embassy, a dystopia whose tyrannical government has tested the patience of its people and brought them to tipping point. The show was produced by Alex Dellal s 20 Hoxton Square Projects, in collaboration with Zoom Art Projects. A mixture of painting, sculpture and installation, works featured in The Embassy include a national anthem by the pianist Rosey Chan, a presidential palace built from mud by Alastair Mackie, a flag by Tom Gallant, and former service man, Michael Lisle-Taylor will present his Tournament of the Dirty Nurse, an ornately embroidered boxing ring still covered in the blood, sweat and tears from bouts that have taken place within it. Other works include paintings on old school desks by Oliver Clegg, lungs in three stages of the pulmonary cycle shock, agitation and panic by Hugo Wilson and caricature regal portraits by Henry Hudson in his distinctive plasticine style. (Excerpt from the press release). The Embassy took place at the former residence of the Sierra Leonean ambassador to Britain, 33 Portland Place. The Embassy, Private View, October 15, 2009. 33 Portland Place, London / UK. > Right-click (Mac: ctrl-click) this link to download Quicktime video file. > Click this link to watch Quicktime video in new movie window.