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BANKSY / THE VILLAGE PET STORE AND CHARCOAL GRILL

10.12.08 / · · · ·

Video featuring The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill by the british artist Banksy at Greenwich Village, NY.

The installation [a pet store simulation] that includes McDonalds’s Chicken Mc Nuggets sipping barbeche sauce, fish sticks swimming in a fish tank, a cctv camera nurture its young or a chimpanzee watching monkeys in a hot moment [Discovery Channel style], shows the corrosive sense of humor by this artist. [MORE...]

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OLAFUR ELIASSON / NEW YORK CITY WATERFALLS

09.06.08 / · · · · ·

New York City Waterfalls is an installation by the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson consisting in four artificial waterfalls placed along the East River in New York. In collaboration with the Public Art Found and with a cost of USD 15.5 millions is the most expensive public art installation to date.

It began officially on June 26 2008 and ends October 13 of the same year. [MORE...]

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IVÁN NAVARRO / HOMELESS LAMP

08.25.08 / · · · ·

Complementary video for “Homeless Lamp” –fluorescents bulbs sculpture by the chilean artist Iván Navarro-.

The idea was present the sculpture on work in a different context  more than the typical exhibition place. In the video, Iván Navarro walks at Chelsea [NY], looking where he can hang out to the public electricity. [MORE...]

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Mark Wigley Interview / Volume / Part 2

08.11.08 / · · · · · · ·

Mark Wigley. Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Auckland, New Zealand [1979] and Ph.D. from that same institution in 1987. Since 2004, Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture [NY] Co-curator –along with Philip Johnson– of the MoMA exhibition “Deconstructivist Architecture” [1988]. In 2005, he founded together with Rem Koolhaas and Ole Bouman the publication Volume, a project by Archis [Amsterdam], AMO [Rotterdam] and C-LAB [New York]. [MORE...]

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GORDON MATTA-CLARK / YOU ARE THE MEASURE

08.10.08 / · · · ·

“You are the measure” is the first full-scale retrospective in twenty years of the work of the artist Gordon Matta-Clark [1943-1978], at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York [February, 2007].

The exhibition, incluyes Matta-Clark’s major works and presents numerous projects in different médiums: the sculptural objects [building cuts], drawings, films and documentary material. [MORE...]

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DAN PERJOVSCHI / WHAT HAPPENED TO US?

07.22.08 / · · · ·

Video featuring the montage of What Happened to Us? at MoMA, by rumanian artist and writer Dan Perjovschi [1961 -], his first exhibit in USA.

Perjovschi’s work is -generally- handrawings over any given wall, a set of sketches with highly ironic and cutting views towards the contemporary -politics, society and culture-. Each of his drawings is a slap to the face to the first world –if we assume that his work deals manily with issues about a certain Center-Periphery tension. [MORE...]

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KEITH TYSON / LARGE FIELD ARRAY

06.08.08 / · · · ·

Large Field Array is an installation by british artist Keith Tyson [1969- ], made of 300 sculptures into one single spectacle; from a giant cock’s head to siamese basketball players, or a Friends’s mug right next to a roulette wheeling all day long [Tyson himself has confessed his addiction to gamble]. [MORE...]

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Mark Wigley Interview / Volume / Part 1

06.02.08 / · · · · · · ·

Mark Wigley. Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Auckland, New Zealand [1979] and Ph.D. from that same institution in 1987. Since 2004, Dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture [NY] Co-curator –along with Philip Johnson– of the MoMA exhibition “Deconstructivist Architecture” [1988]. In 2005, he founded together with Rem Koolhaas and Ole Bouman the publication Volume, a project by Archis [Amsterdam], AMO [Rotterdam] and C-LAB [New York]. [MORE...]

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