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Swiss installation artist Felice Varini is notorious for his sculptures/paintings that offer a clear understanding from one particular vantage point but a rather chatotic perception from anywhere else. This is an installation entitled “Up-down” at Yvonne Senouf / Projects, New-York, in 1997. 
Swiss installation artist Felice Varini is notorious for his sculptures/paintings that offer a clear understanding from one particular vantage point but a rather chatotic perception from anywhere else. This is an eloquent video about his installation at Eglise des Jésuites in Sion, Switzerland, in 1985. 
Danish artist Olafur Eliasson installed in summer 2008 a temporary waterfall under Brooklyn Bridge in New York City. 
Finnish Eija-Liisa Ahtila is one of the leading contemporary video artists working with video, photography, sculpture and drawing. Most important to her is story telling and the variation and combination of time, narration and space. She briefly talks here about her piece “where is where”. 
Eija-Liisa Ahtila is Finland’s most renowned contemporary artist and one of the most prestigious videoartists in the world. Here some sample of her videoart and photographic work exhibited at teh Jeu de Paume in Paris. 
Robert Gardner visits the great American painter Mark Tobey in Basel, Switzerland, where he lived for the last years of his life. Tobey was together with Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko a leading figure in the American Abstract Expressionism movement. With remarkable candor and objectivity, Tobey discusses his work and that of fellow artists including Picasso. His keen wit lends humor and bite to his critiques, and his own vitality and spirit make an important statement on his work and on Art itself. 
Korean artist Do Ho Suh often makes sculptures with ephemeral and ethereal materials like fabric. He likes exploring the universal value of spatial experiences that relate to his own personal space. These sculptures recreate in a 1:1 scale architectural transition spaces such as gateways, corridors or staircases. 
Contemporary photographer Massimo Vitali is one of the most famous photographers belonging to the New Italian Realism movement. Invited by the notebook brand Moleskine, he created a notebook exhibition which details of his large scale images. 
Painter Jackson Pollock was the leading head of American Abstract Expressionism. His complex work, which suffered transformation sometimes abruptly, is mostly recognised for his “Action Painting” technique consisting of laying the canvas on the floor and painting almost as a performing act. 
Living legend American artist John Baldessari talks about his work Brain/Cloud, on the occasion of the opening of his retrospective, Pure Beauty, at LACMA. |
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