Lu Yang’s solo exhibition “A Torturous Vision” at the gallery I/O (Input/Output) in Hong Kong was a quite controversial show. Lu Yang presented three video works and four large scale canvases. The dominating work was Dictator, a music video set to a composition by the sound artist Wang Changcun. Dictator is based on a previous [...]
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Charlotte Perriand: Designer – Photographer – Activist / Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is considered as one of the most innovative interior architects and furniture designers of the 20th century. She developed designs for tubular steel furniture, particularly in cooperation with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Beginning in the early 1930s, she discovered photography as a medium that provided important impulses for her work as [...]
Portugal Arte 10: Public Art Projects in Downtown Lisbon
The cornerstone of Portugal Arte 10 EDP is a series of public art projects that are installed throughout downtown Lisbon. Three distinct areas, Chiado, Baixa, and Avenida Liberdade, host these works. Los Angeles-based architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of JohnstonMarkLee architectural firm were instrumental in examining these areas defining characteristics and placing the works [...]
Portugal Arte 10 / International Survey of Contemporary Art in Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal Arte 10 EDP is a new biennial show of contemporary art in Lisbon / Portugal and the surrounding region. The first edition of the international survey of contemporary art features a large program of specially commissioned public sculpture projects and site-specific installations, alongside 8 curated group exhibitions. In this video, VernissageTV has a look [...]
Artist Collective FAILE’s Temple at Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon
Portugal Arte 10 is a new biennial show of contemporary art in Lisbon. One of the most spectacular works on display is Temple (2010), a site-specific environment by the Brooklyn-based artist collective FAILE (Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller). FAILE’s Temple is a full-scale church in ruins in Praça dos Restauradores Square, one of the major [...]
Micol Assaël: Mindfall / Art 41 Basel / Art Public
For the Art Public program of Art 41 Basel, the international art show for Modern and contemporary art in Basel / Switzerland, the Italian artist Micol Assaël presented her installation Mindfall (2004), a container filled with motors that produce unpleasant smells and noise. As every year, the Messeplatz in front of the main halls hosting [...]
Designer David Wiseman and Corning GlassLab at Vitra Design Museum / Interview
If you want to see how contemporary designers experiment with glass, attending the GlassLab performances of the Corning Museum of Glass is a perfect idea. During this year’s Art Basel, the museum brought its mobile glass laboratory to the Vitra Campus. VernissageTV watched designer David Wiseman and the Corning Museum glassmakers working side-by-side on new [...]
Aideen Barry: Flight Folly (Performance) at Liste 15 – The Young Art Fair
The Performance Project is an essential part of the “Specials” of Liste – The Young Art Fair in Basel. Curated by Silke Bitzer, the Performance Project presents alternating performances daily. This year there were performances by Nezaket Ekici, Ryan McNamara, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Saskia Edens, Dawn Kasper, californium248, and Aideen Barry. VernissageTV taped Aideen Barry’s [...]
Navid Tschopp: Topological Agenda – Public Art / Performance
This video documents the final stage and the formal handover of Zurich-based artist Navid Tschopp’s work “Topologische Agenda – Der Weg zum Master”. One of the artists we met when we covered the Master of Fine Arts Degree Show 2010 in Zürich was Navid Tschopp. The project he presented as his Master thesis was created [...]
Billy Childish: Bomb Grammar at la Maison de la Poésie, Basel / Billy Childish in Conversation with Neal Brown
During Art 41 Basel in June 2010, the British artist Billy Childish created a lot of buzz with the presentation of his paintings at the gallery Neugerriemschneider (Berlin). It seems that with this exhibition at an art fair, the cult figure Billy Childish finally reached the attention of the mainstream art lover. From the art [...]
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