A panoramic view of the Arsenale exhibit at the 54th Venice Art Biennale (June-November 2011) which is about to finish.
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20:50 is one of the most celebrated pieces of installation art. Conceived by British artist Richard Wilson in 1987, it was acquired by the Saatchi Gallery and soon became its flagship work. It consists of a room filled with oil up to a height of 1 meter, thus creating a mesmerizing reflective effect. 
US-born, Belgium-based Peter Downsbrough is an artist working in the realm of film and videos exploring the backside of our Western society. He does so through silent and poignant observations of architecture, urban environments, language and typography. 
Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt focuses on elements that are difficult to perceive without targeted attention, as well as on the scale ratio between the infinitesimal and the infinite. Despite her sometimes high-tech scientific approach, her work displays an intimate feel, both discreet and delicate, more of a development of a question than a real answer, and based on hypothesis rather than assertion. 
Body Press is a seminal piece of performance art with a mix of 8mm film incorporated into it. It was conceived by Dan Graham in 1970. Two filmmakers stand within a surrounding and completely mirrorized cylinder, body trunk stationary, hands holding and pressing a camera’s back-end flush to, while slowly rotating it about, the surface cylin-der of their individual bodies. 
Indian artist Anish Kapoor’s octagon and square dish entitled Islamic Mirror was installed at the Sharq Al-Andalus Hall Museum of the Monasterio de Santa Clara in Murcia from november 2008 to January 2009. 
Manufacturing process of Indian artist Anish Kapoor’s Hexagonal Mirror Dish sculpture series. The pieces are from 2007 and manufactured using cutting edge technology by Factum Arte, a Madrid-London based art workshop. 
Manufacturing process of Indian artist Anish Kapoor’s Hexagonal Mirror Dish sculpture series. The pieces are from 2007 and manufactured using cutting edge technology by Factum Arte, a Madrid-London based art workshop. 
Victor Burgin is British-American artist and theoretician. The installations he elaborates contain text, images, voice overs… which remain open to multiple interpretations. 
Studio Banana TV interviews Corinne Charpentier, director of the Fri-Art contemporary art centre in Fribourg, Switzerland, on the occasion of her participation at the 2011 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid. |
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