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Out now: VernissageTV PDF-magazine No. 23, November 2012. The topics of the current issue are: Graffiti in Venice, art and architecture in Bad Gastein, a public art festival in Zürich, Bedlam and a Rain Room in London, a Pantone Bridge in San José, and interviews with Christo and car designer Mark Stehrenberger. Click image or [...]

Random International are known for their digital-based contemporary art. The London-based studio creates artworks and installations that explore behaviour and interaction. One of Random International’s most recent work is called The Rain Room, currently on display at the Barbican Centre’s exhibition space The Curve in London. The Rain Room is a hundred square meter field [...]

The Swiss artist Jean Tinguely is especially known for his art machines and considered as one of the main protagonists of kinetic art. He belonged to the Parisian avant-garde and the Nouveau Réalisme (New Realists) in the mid-twentieth century. Tinguely was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, in 1925, but grew up in Basel, where the Museum [...]

Kaleidoscope is Japanese artist Maya Onoda’s third solo exhibition with Magnan Metz Gallery. Maya Onoda is known for her intricate paper cutouts and installations. Maya Onoda was born in Japan and received her BFA from California State University-Fullerton and an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. This video provides you with an exhibition walkthrough during [...]

Interview with Christo on the occasion of his lecture “Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Work in Progress” at Fondation Beyeler. In this conversation with Mirjam Baitsch, Christo talks about the Wrapped Trees project that Christo and Jeanne-Claude realized at Fondation Beyeler in 1998, and his new projects The Mastaba and Over the River. The video above is [...]

Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Switzerland) currently presents an exhibition that focuses on the late work of the French artist Edgar Degas, who is known for his famous depictions of dancers. On the occasion of this unique show, Sasha Waltz, one of the most important contemporary choreographers, came to Riehen to show ”Rebonds B” as part [...]

Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago present You Gotta Do What You Gotta Do, its first exhibition of new works by Joyce Pensato. Working largely in black and white, and often with signature images drawn from comics and popular culture, Joyce Pensato is an exuberant expressionist painter. A native Brooklynite, she has lived and worked in [...]

Interview with Car Designer Mark Stehrenberger. The designer, illustrator and artist talks about his career, his current and future projects, and gives his opinion on the state of current automotive design. Mark Stehrenberger is especially known for his illustration of future cars for car magazines such as Road & Track, Auto, Motor und Sport. He [...]

Ruta de Galerías is a new project that aims to promote the galleries located in the San Miguel Chapultepec and Tacubaya areas of Mexico City. The first event was held on September 29, 2012. On the occasion of this event, VTV correspondent Diego García Sotomoro visited two of the participating galleries, Galería Labor and Archivo [...]

The exhibition Rosemarie Trockel: A Cosmos at the New Museum in New York presents the extensive and varied work of the German artist Rosemarie Trockel. German artist Rosemarie Trockel is known for works that address issues of sexuality, feminism, and the hierarchy of systems. Rosemarie Trockel. A Cosmos encompasses all three main gallery floors of [...]

The gallery Hilario Galguera in Mexico City currently presents a solo show with works by the Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein. The title of the exhibition is El Canto de la Aurora (The Song of the Aurora). Gottfried Helnwein is known for his provocative works that deal with topics such as childhood, innocence, destruction, and trauma. [...]

The Great and Secret Show is Swedish artist Christian Andersson’s first solo exhibition at von Bartha Garage in Basel, Switzerland. Andersson conceived the multi-faceted show as a commentary on the cultural-philosophical discourses and rituals of the art market. After passing through an art lounge with classic and modern art works, the visitor enters the main [...]

This is the second report from our new correspondent in Beijing (China), Diana Coca. It covers the exhibitions at Galleria Continua, Asian Art Works, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Debut Art Space, White Space Beijing, TJ China Project Room, and Galerie Urs Meile. In 798 Art Zone, Galleria Continua in Beijing presents Facing Walls. Opening Windows [...]

The exhibition Pop Art Design at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein explores the dialog between design and art in the era of Pop Art. Pop Art Design includes works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, and Roy Lichtenstein, which are contrasted by design objects by Charles & Ray [...]

The exhibition Drawing is Coming Back in a Big Way at Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok in Poland, presents works by selected Polish and foreign artists of different generations. It includes also works that transcend the format of a drawing on paper yet retain its essence, i.e. the “drawn” quality, linearity or the succinctness of the record. [...]