THE WORLD OF ROGER RAVEEL

2009.3.23　 Text: Filip De Haes

"Man before door with bolt", 1969 Roger Raveel (born in 1921) is a contemporary Belgian painter, linked with the Pop Art movement. He was born in Machelen-aan-de-Leie, and still lives and works there. Overvi...

DIAGONALE 2009

2009.3.12　 Text: Daniel Kalt

Now in its eleventh year, Diagonale is the festival of Austrian film and attracts everybody who is somebody in Austrian film-making to the the country's second biggest city for five days. One can only agree with the n...

JAPAN CARS – DESIGNS FOR THE CROWDED GLOBE

2009.3.5　 Text: Waiming

"LET'S MAKE REAL MINIATURE CARS", SAY JAPANESE CAR MAKERS. Nissan Pivo 2 The Japanese has always been regarded as the "Godfather" of automotive industry, and now they have taken another quantum leap to promote...

CHI PENG X KENSUI PARANOMIA

2009.3.4　 Text: Wakana Kawahito

"Balinghou" means people who were born in the 80’s, labled a new generation. They were first generation of China's One-child Polity after the Cultural Revolution. After nearly thirty years, the politics and economy ha...

FISCHLI & WEISS: PARTS OF A FILM WITH A RAT AND A BEAR

2009.3.2　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

Exactly one year after the beautiful Palazzo Litta in Milan has been used as the location for the important retrospective Altri fiori e altre domande (“Other flowers and other questions”) of the conjunct work of Peter...

CHITOSE-LAKE SHIKOTSU ICE FESTIVAL

2009.2.26　 Text: Tatsuhiko Akutsu

It is the middle of Feburary 2009, and we are at midwinter here in Sapporo. The roads are walls of piled snow and sidewalks make every look like poor skaters. To me, it is quite impressive and fantastic scenery - snow...

HUSSEIN CHALAYAN: FROM FASHION AND BACK

2009.2.13　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

In spite of the snowiest days London has witnessed in last eighteen years, The design museum has been crowded with people with slightly red faces. Not only because of the cold weather. They all are so excited to see t...

TRANSMEDIALE 2009

2009.2.12　 Text: Shintaro Miyazaki

Each year at the end of January Berlin gets for some days the center of the international media art scene. "Deep North" was the theme for this years Transmediale 2009 for "art and digital culture", which was held at "...

THE 12TH JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

2009.2.11　 Text: Masanori Sugiura

The 2008 [12th] Japan Media Arts Festival will be held from February 4th to 15th 2009 at The National Art Center, Tokyo. The question "What is Media Art?" has been asked over and over again. At the same time, the ...

CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI : ARCHIVES FROM THE HEART

2009.2.5　 Text: Kana Sunayama

I still remember clearly the exhibition of Christian Boltanski held in Marian Goodman gallery Paris in 2005. I can also recall vividly the impact of the moment when I entered the pitch-black room separated by a curtai...

BREAD & BUTTER WINTER 09

2009.2.4　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

So, this was the last edition of Bread & Butter in Barcelona. Starting in 2005, and after 8 Bread & Butter events in Barcelona the organizers just announced that the feria will return to Berlin. Th...

HUAYI FESTIVAL 2009

2009.1.29　 Text: Fann ZJ

The Lunar New Year sees the celebration of Spring. Seasonal dishes that symbolize and embrace the coming of Spring adore tables. Rituals and customs to welcome the New Year and invite wealth and prosperity are practic...