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Italian artist Massimo Bartolini’s work for dOCUMENTA (13) is an outdoor installation called Untitled (Wave). The work that is placed in front of the Orangerie in the Karlsaue Park consists of a pool in which a wave sloshes back and forth evenly and endlessly. Bartolini has first shown this work in the gardens of Villa [...]

The artist duo Leo Chiachio & Daniel Giannone is known for their colorful embroidered work. Their current exhibition at Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery in Buenos Aires (Argentina) is entitled Bordatón and shows new hand embroidery tableaux, accompanied by porcelain works. With their show at Ruth Benzacar Chiachio & Giannone want to expand the limits previously [...]

Out now: VernissageTV PDF-magazine No. 22, August 2012. The topics of the current issue are: Damien Hirst at Tate Modern London; Art Cologne 2012 and NADA Cologne 2012; Art 43 Basel; Freitag Retrospective at Museum of Design Zürich; dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, with interviews with artist Thomas Bayrle and Documenta expert Dr. Harald Kimpel. Click [...]

One of the largest works at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel (Germany) is American artist Sam Durant’s sculpture Scaffold. It’s located in a prominent place in Kassel’s Karslaue Park in front of the Aueteich pond. Sam Durant’s work for dOCUMENTA (13) is a huge sculpture that has a strong presence, but it’s not immediately clear what [...]

Philippe Parreno’s solo exhibition at Fondation Beyeler in Riehen (Switzerland) presents new works by the French artist that connect like a puzzle when walking through the museum’s halls. At the center of the show are two new films by Philippe Parreno: Marilyn and C.H.Z. As in his famous film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (a [...]

Documenta in Kassel (Germany) is one of the most important exhibitions for contemporary art in the world. Artist, teacher and curator Arnold Bode founded it in 1955, as part of the Bundesgartenschau (Federal Horticultural Show) in Kassel. It is not unusual that each Documenta has caused controversy. The 2012 edition, dOCUMENTA (13), is no exception. [...]

Ceal Floyer’s sound installation ‘Til I get it Right seems to be a comment on the artist’s strive for perfection. It’s a loop that is created from a song of the same title by the American country music singer-songwriter Tammy Wynette. Ceal Floyer just used the lines “I’ll just keep on” and “’Til I Get [...]

Klaus Lutz was an artist and filmmaker who created an extraordinary body of work, which is characterized by a unique cinematic language. His films are reminiscent of 1920s expressionist film, of Georges Méliès and Russian avant-garde agitprop films. Now the museum Haus Konstruktiv in Zürich (Switzerland) presents a retrospective of his work. On the occasion [...]

One of the largest rooms of dOCUMENTA (13) is dedicated exclusively to the work of German artist Thomas Bayrle. Bayrle, born in 1937 in Berlin, has already participated in Documenta 3 in 1964 and in Documenta 6 in 1977 in Kassel (Germany). Nearly 50 years after his first participation Thomas Bayrle is now celebrating his [...]

With 1,414 meters, the Belchen is the fourth highest summit of the Black Forest in Southern Germany. The summit of the Belchen with was used as a place of worship, was a landmark and prehistoric observatory, and is now a popular destination for tourists. Usually a large cross on the top of the mountain is [...]

Curated by Romain Salomon, x, y, z & t at the gallery Anne Barrault in Paris (France) features artists Jérôme Allavena, Sandra Aubry & Sébastien Bourg, Pierre-Laurent Cassière, Chloé Dugit-Gros. The exhibition aims to explore notions of temporality and space, decrypting these two constructions that define our lives. The artists’ approach strives to perturb visual [...]

The group show En todo y en todas partes at Kurimanzutto, Mexico City is a tribute to the Polish avant-garde artist Edward Krasiński (1925–2004). The exhibition, curated by Polish curator Andrzej Przywara includes works by Karla Black, Marieta Chirulescu, Babette Mangolte, and Susanne M. Winterling. Edward Krasiński was born in 1925 in Lutsk (Volhynia) into [...]

Gabriel Orozco: Asterisms at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is the last exhibition in Deutsche Guggenheim’s commission program. For this show, Mexican-born artist Gabriel Orozco has created sculptural and photographic installations from the rubble he gathered on two sites in New York and in Baja California, Mexico. The objects that are displayed on a platform [...]

As part of the public art festival Art And The City and courtesy of the gallery Häusler Contemporary, the British artist Hamish Fulton performed one of his famous “Art Walks” in Zürich (Switzerland). On June 23, 2012, two groups of 250 people each gathered at two different meeting points along the river Limmat for the [...]

Broaching subjects of edification, art and the role of the artist, the exhibition When it stop dripping from the ceiling, curated by Bassam El Baroni, develops a historical and political gaze through the critical perspectives of each oeuvre. Present are the works of artists Jesse Ash, Luis Camnitzer, Iman Issa, Per-Oskar Leu, Metahaven, Setareh Shahbazi, [...]