Up-Down, Felice Varini

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.

Eglise des Jésuites, Felice Varini

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.

New York Waterfalls, Olafur Eliasson

Danish artist Olafur Eliasson installed in summer 2008 a temporary waterfall under Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.

Where is Where, Eija-Liisa Ahtila

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”.

Interview, Mark Tobey

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.

Detour Exhibition, Massimo Vitali

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.

Action Painting, Jackson Pollock

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.

Pure Beauty, John Baldessari

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.

The Simulation of Chaos, Contemporary Italian Art

La simulación del caos: arte italiano contemporáneo” agrupa a artistas como Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Pivi, Piero Golia, Alighiero e Boetti, Vanessa Beecroft, Francesco Vezzoli, Rudolf Stingel, Massimo Vitali, Luisa Lambri y Tatiana Trouve/ “The Simulation of chaos: contemporary italian art” is an exhibition of works by Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Pivi, Piero Golia, Alighiero e Boetti, Vanessa Beecroft, Francesco Vezzoli, Rudolf Stingel, Massimo Vitali, Luisa Lambri and Tatiana Trouve.

Performance, Singing by Numbers

Laura Steenberge and Catherine Lamb, leaders of the experimental women’s choir Singing by Numbers, are interested in exploring the physics of sound waves through voice, and in conducting experiments in new methods of teaching singing-in-harmony, to the public.

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