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  Freitag ? Out of the Bag. Retrospective at Museum of Design Zurich

  Posted: 25-May-2012, 9:33am CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  The story of the iconic Freitag bag made of used truck tarpaulin began in Zurich (Switzerland) in 1993, when the two brothers and keen cyclists Daniel and Markus Freitag were looking for a practical and waterproof messenger bag. As they couldn’t find one that suited their needs, they just produced one themselves. The inspiration came from the trucks that passed by in front of their students flat. First the Freitag brothers sewed together bags made of used truck tarps, car seat belts and bicycle inner tubes just for themselves and their friends. But the uniquely designed bag became popular and even cult.

  Today the Freitag brothers and their company are a both a prominent part of the urban street scene as well as a model of the (not only Swiss) creative industry. Time for the Museum of Design Zurich (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich) to have a closer look at company and their individual recycled freeway bags. The first Freitag retrospective called Freitag ? Out of the Bag takes a look behind the scenes and spotlights the history, products, manufacture, organization, marketing of Freitag. Rather than just showing the bags, which can be seen in the streets of cities all over the world, the show presents material from the company archive, observations in film, prototypes, and a number of interviews.

  VernissageTV met up with Daniel Freitag and the curator of the exhibition Freitag ? Out of the Bag, Renate Menzi to talk about the company and the exhibition, and to follow them on a tour through the show. The above video is a video summary of the exhibition and the interviews. The complete videos can be viewed at www.vernissage.tv Daniel Freitag speaks about the secret of Freitag’s success, their design philosophy, what inspires them, how the brothers work together, the essence of a Freitag product, sustainability, different tastes across the world, future projects ? and why he wears a beard. Curator Renate Menzi provides us with an introduction to the exhibition, and points to two different scenarios for the future of the company. The exhibition Freitag ? Out of the Bag at Museum of Design Zurich runs until July 29, 2012.

  Freitag ? Out of the Bag. Retrospective at the Museum of Design Zurich (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich). Interview with Daniel Freitag and Renate Menzi (Museum of Design), Zürich / Switzerland, May 9, 2012.

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  The Freitag brothers won numerous awards with their bags and their company. This is a selection of the distinctions awarded: In 1997 they won Distinction, Design Preis Schweiz; in 2003 the Top Cat model is accepted into the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA); in 2003 the Freitag brothers won Gold for the F-CUT by the Art Directors Club Switzerland in the category of Electronic Publishing; in 2007 they won the Golden Pencil for Environmental Design / Retail & Services, D&AD Global Awards; in 2009 they received the Design Prize of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gold for the F-Shop in Zurich in the Product Design category; in 2011 they won the 6th Zurich entrepreneur award for innovative, sustainable and commercially successful work.

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  Almost twenty years after the launch of the first product, the original bag is still the best-selling, but is complemented by additional lines and products. There are 40 models of the Freitag Fundamentals range, and 17 Freitag Reference models. The Freitag brothers expect this year’s sale to reach about 300,000 items. The company employs a staff of 130, and processes around 400 metric tons of truck tarpaulins. The Freitag products are sold through 400 sales partners, the online shop, and nine of its own F-Stores in Berlin, Cologne, Davos, Hamburg, Tokyo, and Vienna, including one across the New Museum in New York and their spectacular flagship store in Zürich, built from shipping containers.

  Künstlergespräch mit Daniel Freitag und Kuratorin Renate Menzi (in German language) (58:02 Min.):
  

  Each Freitag bag is made from original truck tarpaulins of different colors, markings and contours, thus every Freitag product is a one-off. Another key element of the design is the green aspect, the use of second-hand material. This is also the biggest constraint on growth: Finding enough suitable tarpaulin for the products.

  

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  Phyllida Barlow: Siege / New Museum, New York

  Posted: 24-May-2012, 8:28am CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  Another of the five new exhibitions that recently opened at the New Museum is a solo show with works by Phyllida Barlow. The exhibition is titled Siege, and it’s the first New York solo exhibition of the work of the British sculptor, who has been an important influence on British sculpture for the past forty years. Barlow began making work in the mid-1960s. She was inspired by Arte Povera and American sculptors like Eva Hesse. In her works she uses disparate substances such as concrete, felt, wooden pallets, polystyrene, and fabric, often within the same work. For the show at the New Museum, Barlow created a new, site-specific sculptural installation in the Museum?s fourth floor gallery. Phyllida Barlow: Siege is curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari. Phyllida Barlow was born in 1944 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. She currently lives and works in London, England.

  Phyllida Barlow: Siege / New Museum, New York. Opening reception, May 6, 2012. Video by Shimon Azulay.

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  Marie-Jeanne Hoffner: Déplis, Trames et Grilles / Galerie Dohyanglee, Paris

  Posted: 23-May-2012, 10:32am CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  The work of Marie-Jeanne Hoffner is inspired by architecture and questions of space. In her exhibition entitled Déplis, Trames et Grilles at Galerie Dohyanglee in Paris, Marie-Jeanne Hoffner explores the visual notions of fullness, emptiness, construction and deconstruction through a myriad of mediums: photography, drawing, installations, video and models. The drawings on the first floor explore three dimensional space in various phases of deconstruction. Downstairs the viewer is confronted with balsa wood models, black and white photograms, and two videos that continue to examine the similar themes of an inbetween stage of assembly and disassembly. The show opened on May 12 and is on display until June 30, 2012.

  Marie-Jeanne Hoffner: Déplis, Trames et Grilles / Galerie Dohyanglee, Paris. Opening reception, May 12, 2012. Video by Daniel Barney.

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  Los Carpinteros at Faena Arts Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Posted: 22-May-2012, 11:22am CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  The Faena Arts Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina currently presents a solo exhibition of the collective Los Carpinteros. Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) are considered as one of the most relevant international artists that emerged from Cuba in the last decade of the 20th century. Los Carpinteros is an artist duo consisting of Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez. They chose to present themselves as Los Carpinteros in 1994, because they wanted to renounce the notion of individual authorship and refer to an older guild tradition of artisans. In their installations, sculptures and watercolors, Los Carpinteros mix design, architecture, and urbanism. They are interested in the intersection of art and society.

  For the exhibition at Faena Arts Center Los Carpinteros chose to present three sculptural works: Avião, El Barrio, and Alumbrado Público. In this video Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez speak about their exhibition, and Alan Faena provides you with an introduction to the Faena Arts Center.

  Works of Los Carpinteros are part of the collections of renowned art museums such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Tate Modern in London; the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. Marco Castillo and Dagoberto Rodríguez graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana. In 1991 they formed the collective.

  The exhibition of Los Carpinteros is shown in the Sala Molinos of the Faena Arts Center. The building that houses the Faena Arts Center was once one of Argentina’s first big mills. The Faena Arts Center opened in 2011 and is part of the Faena Arts District, which was developed by Fashion designer and real-estate developer Alan Faena. The center has over 4,000 m2.

  Los Carpinteros at Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Opening reception, May 15, 2012. Video by Roberto Rey, Milos Deretich, Luciana Zothner, and Ángel Sánchez.

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  Wim Delvoye: Rorschach / Galerie Perrotin, Paris

  Posted: 21-May-2012, 12:08pm CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  Rorschach, Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s third solo show at Galerie Perrotin, opened in Paris on May 12, 2012. The show highlights the détournement and beautification of everyday objects and religious icons. Wim Delvoye’s work is provocative and at times unsettling. He has used live animals, sacred forms and banal objects within a controversial artistic process that aims at forcing the viewer to reconsider what is aesthetically pleasing and what is morally aceptable. In his solo exhbitiion at Galerie Perrotin, Delovoye appropriates the archecture of Gothic Cathedrals and the forms of religious sculptures, producing intricate manipulations of these well known forms. The show runs until June 16, 2012.

  Wim Delvoye: Rorschach / Galerie Perrotin, Paris. Opening reception, May 12, 2012. Video by Daniel Barney.

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  7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

  Posted: 18-May-2012, 2:47am CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  The Berlin Biennale was founded in order to promote contemporary art in Berlin. In 1998 the first Berlin Biennale took place. Since 2004, KW Institute for Contemporary Art has been the supporting organization of the Berlin Biennale.

  The 7th Berlin Biennale, curated by the Polish artist Artur ?mijewski has its focus on social and political issues. ?mijewski is particularly interested in the power of art and its relation to politics.

  The Berlin Biennale is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). The 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in Berlin / Germany runs until July 1, 2012.

  7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, opening reception, April 26, 2012. Video by Astrid Gleichmann.

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  Président Vertut: Grey Matters / TMproject, Geneva

  Posted: 17-May-2012, 3:34am CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  TMprojects in Geneva, Switzerland shows a new body of work by the artist Président Vertut. The show is called Grey Matters, which is a project that started in 2010 on the occasion of the Geneva City Arts Council’s Grants exhibition at Contemporary Art Centre. With this project, Président Vertut’s character enters into politics: “Through a series of drawings, paintings, and a video installation, the artist conceives the visual identity of a party defined as the extreme center, the Middle Party, which color is a very specific medium gray named Global Average Grey. The Middle Party syncretizes all the contradictions of political action in its current mode of operation. It is not opposed to limit the flexibility of politicians, nor to the soft consensus, or the unlikely idea of a social liberalism that allows strictly individual happiness. It comes to terms with it and, worse, promotes it, even by the use coercive methods.?

  The centerpiece of the exhibition is an installation titled Euroscope Méditerranée, a very angry sculpture project consistent of a coin-operated telescope (Euroscope), which was turned into a sniper rifle pointing on a video screen depicting the mediterranean sea, looking out for immigrants.

  Président Vertut was born 1978 in Bourg-en-Bresse, France. He lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2008 he graduated from the Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD). He received the City of Geneva Arts Council Grant in 2011 and 2007, and the Quartier des Bains Art Prize in 2011. Président Vertut’s exhibition at TMproject runs until June 23, 2012.

  Président Vertut: Grey Matters / TMproject, Geneva. Opening reception (Nuit des Bains), May 3, 2012.

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  A. Laurie Palmer: Still, yet, else, further, again / Solo exhibition at Threewalls, Chicago

  Posted: 16-May-2012, 8:56am CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  In this video, VernissageTV attends the opening of Chicago-based artist A. Laurie Palmer at Threewalls in Chicago. The exhibition is called Still, yet, else, further, again and refers to synonyms found on the Internet for ?more?. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an immersive sculptural installation in the main gallery, titled Hole. Hole is built up from stacked circular layers of cut and joined re-used lumber. Visitors can choose to be lifted up and into the hole, by a counter-weight hoist system. The exhibition runs until June 16, 2012.

  Threewalls was founded in 2003 to provide greater support and visibility for the visual arts community in Chicago. The founders wanted to encourage a greater awareness of Chicago?s art scene by inviting emerging professional artists to Chicago.

  A. Laurie Palmer: Still, yet, else, further, again / Solo exhibition at Threewalls, Chicago. Opening reception, May 4, 2012. Video by Francisco Cordero-Oceguera.

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  A. Laurie Palmer?s research-based art practice explores matter?s active nature on a range of scales and speeds. Her work taps into and collaborates with material forces and constructs situations and structures that invite consideration of our own capacities and agencies. She has most recently focused on how we use and share land and other natural resources, specifically through an extended investigation of industrial mineral extraction sites and the movements of substances between land and bodies. The title of the exhibition Still, yet, else, further, again, refers to synonyms found on the Internet for “more,” which as a set of terms with questionable similarity elicits what German Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch calls the “Not Yet.” In other words, ?more? stands in for a state of “comprehended hope” for a transformed world, the seeds for which are embedded in the present but not yet developed.

  Still, yet, else, further, again features two works, “Hole,” an immersive sculptural installation in the main gallery and “794 mph,” a single channel video projection. ?Hole? is built up from stacked circular layers of cut and joined re-used lumber, each layer having a progressively wider circumference. Visitors can choose to be lifted up and into the hole, by a counter-weight hoist system. This system, designed by Chicago Fly House, employs a 400 pound limestone and calcite rock from the local Bolingbrook quarry as counterweight to elevate a person safely strapped into a chair high enough to see over the lip of the hole. The system requires one person to manually work the chainfall to hoist another person in the chair. Literally starting with the holes punctured in our environment by corporations like BP, the experience of ?Hole? establishes an equation between ore and body referencing the circles of increasing complexity related to human/nature interactions, unregulated growth and over-consumption, as well as spatial and temporal expansion.

  “794 mph,” makes a different demand on the viewers? experience with time, space, and the waiting future: willingness to slow down. Referring to the speed that the earth turns at the latitude where the footage was shot in Santa Cruz, CA, in 2010 and 2012, the long shots of night becoming morning in the video unfold at the actual speed of earth turning. While seeming fast at 794 mph, the viewers? experience is in fact very slow, with each shot requiring between 15 to 45 minutes, marking a non-spectacular temporality.

  A. Laurie Palmer’s work takes various forms as sculpture, public projects, writing, and interdisciplinary collaborations. She has shown, lectured, and published nationally and internationally since 1988, both independently and with the artist collaborative Haha, and has received generous foundation and institutional support, including from the Louis Tiffany Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council, the Richard M. Driehaus Foundation, the ArtCouncil (now Artadia) and the Radcliffe Institute. Around the year 2000, she began to focus her individual practice on local projects relating to land-use. The book 3 Acres on the Lake: DuSable Park Proposal Project, published by WhiteWalls Press in 2004, documents a public art project and exhibition related to these concerns. In 2008, WhiteWalls published With Love from Haha documenting twenty years of Haha?s site-based work, and also marking the end of that long-term collaboration. For the last five years she has been researching and writing a book on industrial mineral extraction sites in the U.S. and the movements of substances between land and bodies (Eating the Earth), which is now on review. She has returned to the studio to work on sculptural projects related to this ongoing research, and to other considerations of matter?s active nature and explorations of our collective capacities for change.

  A. Laurie Palmer studied English literature and studio art at Williams College as an undergraduate, and completed her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1988 in printmaking and sculpture. She has taught full time at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Carnegie Mellon University, and part-time at the University of Chicago, UIC, and Vermont College. For the last fifteen years she has taught sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She also was an art writer for ten years.

  

  
  

  

  
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  Niels Trannois: Above Sea Level Kind of Things / Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris

  Posted: 15-May-2012, 9:31am CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  Galerie Chez Valentin innaugurated the exhibition Above sea level kind of things by artist Niels Trannois on April 26, 2012 in Paris. Trannois engages with numerous mediums, shapes and textures developing a perception that floats within a dialogue of memory and mental sensation. The show runs until June 2, 2012.

  Niels Trannois: Above Sea Level Kind of Things / Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris. Opening reception, April 26, 2012. Video by Daniel Barney.

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  Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler

  Posted: 14-May-2012, 7:42am CEST by contact@vernissage.tv (VernissageTV)

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  Fondation Beyeler in Riehen near Basel, Switzerland, presents a large solo exhibition with works by Jeff Koons. In collaboration with the artist, the museum decided to show series of works that are central to Jeff Koons’ oeuvre: The New, Banality, and Celebration.

  Jeff Koons’ early period-series The New consists of ready-made-like cleaning appliances, symbols of newness and purity. Banality comprises traditionally crafted sculptures in porcelain and wood. With Celebration, Keff Koons produced high-gloss steel sculptures and large-format paintings. Among the works on display are Michael Jackson and Bubbles (1988); Ushering in Banality (1988); New Hoover Convertible (1980); Winter Bears (1988); and Balloon Dog (Red) (1994-2000). The giant Split Rocker is installed in the garden of the museum.

  In this video we walk through the exhibition on the occasion of the media reception and Dr. Theodora Vischer (Senior Curator at Large, Fondation Beyeler) gives us a short introduction to the show. Hit the jump for the full-length version of the video, an introduction to the exhibition in German language, the Jeff Koons lecture at Fondation Beyeler, Jeff Koons speaking at the media conference, and an introduction to the work Split-Rocker.

  Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler is the first exhibition ever devoted by a Swiss museum to the American artist Jeff Koons. The show runs until September 2, 2012.

  Jeff Koons at Fondation Beyeler. Press Preview and introduction by Dr. Theodora Vischer (Senior Curator at Large, Fondation Beyeler). Riehen / Basel, Switzerland, May 11, 2012.

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  Jeff Koons Lecture at Fondation Beyeler (1:33:09):
  

  Jeff Koons Media Conference at Fondation Beyeler (18:04 Min.):
  

  Introduction to the exhibition in German language (9:50 Min.):
  

  Jeff Koons: Split-Rocker at Fondation Beyeler (2:47 Min.):