http://www.vernissage.tv | 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. Mona Hatoum: Interior Landscape. Fondazione Querini Stampalia. Venice / Italy, June 3, 2009.

More information: http://vernissage.tv/blog/2009 /06/26/mona-hatoum-interior-la ndscape-fondazione-querini-sta mpalia-venice-italy/

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Liam Gillick's exhibition at the German Pavilion Venice Biennale 09. With statements by Liam Gillick and a review by Ralf Schlüter, Vice Editor-in-chief Art - Das Kunstmagazin (in German language).

In Liam Gillicks 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 todays 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.

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http://www.vernissage.tv | This is an interview with Hannes Koch, part of the design collective rAndom International (together with Stuart Wood and Flo Ortkrass). At this years Design Miami Basel, Carpenters Workshop Gallery presented rAndom Internationals Audience. Audience is an installation conceived by rAndom International in collaboration with Chris OShea. 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 Internationals 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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http://www.vernissage.tv | 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 Biennale di Venezia 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.

The Nordic Pavilion by Norwegian architect Sverre Fehn has been turned into a flamboyant bachelors 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 Dragsets 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 Fare Mondi / Making Worlds, Venice Biennial 2009. Interview with Ingar Dragset, June 6, 2009. Interview: Raphaele Shirley.

More Elmgreen & Dragset at VernissageTV: http://vernissage.tv/blog/tag/ michael-elmgreen-ingar-dragset /

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http://www.vernissage.tv | The Golden Lion for best artist in curator Daniel Birnbaums Fare Mondi / Making Worlds art exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale Biennale di Venezia Fare Mondi / Making Worlds 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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http://www.vernissage.tv | Bruce Naumans exhibition Topological Gardens, currently on view at the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Biennale Biennale di Venezia Fare Mondi / Making Worlds, has won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. The Biennale stated that Bruce Naumans 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 Naumans 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 Naumans 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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http://www.vernissage.tv | 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 16000 visitors. Today, Art 40 Basel features galleries from 31 countries in Europe, America, and Asia and more than 60000 visitors are expected.
International art fair Art 40 Basel 2009. An extended walkthrough. June 9, 2009.

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http://www.vernissage.tv | 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.

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http://www.vernissage.tv | This year Claude Lévêque is the artist who represents France at the 53rd International Exhibition of Art La Biennale di Venezia (Fare Mondi / Making Worlds). At the French Pavilion, he presents an installation entitled Le Grand Soir. According to the press release, the work is a uniquely French concept from the eve of the Revolution. Le Grand Soir evokes the moment when the world changed.

To support him in this project, Claude Lévêque has selected Christian Bernard, director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva, as curator.

Claude Lévêques works refer to popular culture, to the everyday environment, and to mental images. He creates ambiances, environments and objects while expanding the installations dimensions through the use of the sensory effectiveness of light and sound.

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

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http://www.vernissage.tv | Takashi Murakami & Pharrell Williams: The Simple Things / Art 40 Basel / Interview with Pharrell Williams

At Art 40 Basel, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin presented a 6-foot Takashi Murakami sculpture, made in collaboration with the U.S. record producer and designer Pharrell Williams. The object is titled The Simple Things. It features a glass-fiber, steel and acrylic head based on Murakami's cartoon-inspired signature character Mr. Dob. In its mouth you find objects which are the essentials in Pharrell Williams' everyday life: A can of Pepsi, a cup cake, a sneaker and bottle of Johnsons baby lotion. These objects are encrusted with 26'000 diamonds and gems.

In this interview with Ute Thon (Art Magazin), Pharrell Williams talks about how cooperation came about, the idea behind the sculpture, his interest in art and design, the artists and designers he admires, and his own design works.

Art 40 Basel 2009, VIP Preview, June 9, 2009.

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http://www.vernissage.tv | Part one of VernissageTVs walkthrough of the Art Unlimited sector of Art 40 Basel 2009 with large-scale installations, video projections, and massive sculptures at Art 40 Basel International Art Fair in Basel, Switzerland. June 8, 2008. Art 40 Basel, Art Unlimited section. Impressions from the preview. Basel, June 8, 2008.

This year's Art Unlimited exhibition marks the tenth edition of Art Basel's sector for large sculptures, and installation and video art. In the first part of our exhibition walkthrough we have 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.

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http://www.vernissage.tv | On Sunday, June 7, 2009, the 53rd International Art Exhibition officially opened its doors. The show is curated by Daniel Birnbaum and is titled Fare Mondi, Making Worlds. VernissageTV starts its coverage with the Palazzo delle Esposizioni (or Biennale Pavilion) in the Giardini. There, visitors find a huge spiderweb-like work by Tomas Saraceno, an installation by Swedish Nathalie Djurberg (who won the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist in the Fare Mondi / Making Worlds exhibition) and the Café designed by Tobias Rehberger, who won the Golden Lion for the Best Artist of the exhibition Fare Mondi / Making Worlds Biennale di Venezia (with the work "Was du liebst, bringt dich auch zum Weinen).

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