At ARCO 2008 in Madrid, [DAM] Gallery Berlin presented the digital art installation "TI" by C.E.B. Reas as part of ARCO’s "Expanded Box" section. "TI" has been in included in group shows at Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York and at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University in Chicago. C.E.B. Reas lives and works in Los Angeles. Reas is associate professor and chair of the department of Design | Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. He focuses on defining processes and translating them into images. With Ben Fry, Reas initiated Processing.org in 2001. Processing is an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. Interview with [DAM] director Wolf Lieser. ARCO’08 Madrid, February 16, 2008.
Interview with Fette, the owner / director of Fette's Gallery, Los Angeles, at Swab Art Fair Barcelona 2008. Fette's Gallery is specialized in contemporary art. The gallery is located in the Culver City art district of Los Angeles.
At ARCO 2008, the 27th edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, we met with Vera Cortês, the director of the eponymous gallery in Lisbon, Portugal. At ARCO’08 Vera Cortês presents works by (among others) Alexandre Farto, Catarina Dias, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Sophie Whettnall, Susanne Themlitz and Martinha Maia. In the interview, Vera Cortês talks about the gallery’s program, her background in the fashion industry, the art scene in Portugal, and she sums up the first two days (the professional visit) of ARCO8. ARCO 2008, Madrid / Spain, February 14, 2008.
In its gallery space in Berlin, Galerija Gregor Podnar presents new works by Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi. Dan Perjovschi mixes drawing, cartoon and graffiti that comment on current political, social or cultural issues. Over the past decade he created works drawn directly on the walls of museums and art spaces, most recently in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dan Perjovschi (born 1961 in Sibiu, Romania) lives and works in Bucharest. Opening reception, September 1, 2008.
ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Spain, presents 250 galleries from over 30 countries which show historical avant-garde, contemporary and emerging art. The 27th edition of ARCO runs from Wednesday 13th to Monday 18th March 2008. This year Brazil is guest country. In a special sector 32 galleries show Brazilian art. The General Programme features a selection of international galleries made by the ARCO'08 Organizing Committee. For its 2008 edition, ARCO has moved to new halls. The fair is now located in two recently inaugurated pavilions of Feria de Madrid. Professional Visit, February 13, 2008.
British artist Liam Gillick was nominated for one of the most renowned visual art awards, the Turner Price, in 2002. He works in various media, including texts and physical structures. The Kunsthalle Zurich, along with three other insitutions, now staged a comprehensive retrospective of his work. Impressions from the opening reception, January 25, 2008.
German artist Andreas Hofer’s exhibition “Phantom Gallery” opened simultaneously in Hauser & Wirth’s gallery space in Zürich / Switzerland, and in a shop on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Both venues are interconnected by a live video conference. In Zurich, visitors enter a gallery within a gallery, in Los Angeles, the show appears as a gallery within a commercial stretch of a street. The exhibitions themselves are empty. We had the chance to ask Andreas Hofer about the idea behind the exhibition. Andreas Hofer was born in 1963 in Munich. He lives and works in Berlin. Between 1991 and 1997 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Chelsea College of Art & Design in London. He often signs individual works “Andy Hope 1930″. Andreas Hofer’s works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at Rubell Familiy Collection in Miami, and at ZKM Centre of Art and Media, Karlsruhe (until 30 March 2008).
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Interview with designer / architect Piero Lissoni
Piero Lissoni is one of the world-renowned architects who have been commissioned to design various residences and facilities on Dellis Cay, a private Carribean island. Piero Lissoni has designed the Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay and The Residences at Mandarin Oriental. The other architects are Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield, Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban, Carl Ettensperger and Chad Oppenheim. In the interview Piero Lissoni tells us about his passion for drawing, his inspirations, the differences between designing for a big city and an island, the Dellis Cay project, and why boring meetings are a phantastic place for working. Dellis Cay VIP Art Basel Booth, Art Basel Miami Beach, December 7, 2007.
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Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob: Wildflowers of Manitoba
Interview with Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob, the creators of "Wildflowers of Manitoba", a performative installation consisting of four short films and soun. By VTV correspondent Peta Jenkin, 2nd camera by Anne Esser. February 12/13, 2008.
Beyond the Screen, the current exhibition at Gallery [DAM] Berlin, offers an insight into the world of “fabbing” - digital fabrication. Fabbing allows for the production of structures and surfaces exceeding the limits of digital mass production. By using specific software to control these tools, artists and designers are able to realize unimaginable complex objects. Beyond the Screen shows artwork based on this new technology by Commonwealth (US), Leander Herzog (CH), Jared Tarbell (US), Theverymany (US), Marius Watz (NO) and participatns of the Generator.x 2.0 workshop in cooperation with club transmediale and Marius Watz. Impressions from the opening reception, February 2, 2008. By VTV correspondent Lizza May David.
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