SONAR 2007

2007.7.17　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

Recently, Barcelona has increased its festival offer, but there is one that after 14 years is still being considered the best Festival in the world in the field of avant-garde music: the 14th International Festival of...

DOCUMENTA 12

2007.7.12　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

The 12th edition of the international exhibition, Documenta12 was held in Kassel , Germany. It was under the direction of Roger-Martin Buergel, and his wife, Ruth Noack. Ai Weiwei, Template, 2007 They hav...

PRIMAVERA SOUND 2007

2007.7.5　 Text: Julio Cesar Palacio

With the memory of the wonderfull Primavera Sound last year still in our hearts. This new edition, Primavera Sound 2007 was and really expected event, you can notice it at Thursday the first day of the festival that h...

DESIGN FESTA VOL. 25

2007.7.1　 Text: Naoko Wowsugi

Design Festa recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The festival is called ‘the biggest international art event’, so about 6000 people from 32 countries and all over Japan came to exhibit, sell and present their or...

DESIGNMAI 2007

2007.6.28　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

I saw the sunshine through the clouds just after the rain. But then I heard thunder as I went out. I was all wet when I got home then again, the sun came out. In this dramatic weather, DESIGNMAI was held from May 1...

DOCVILLE FILM FESTIVAL 2007

2007.6.14　 Text: Filip De Haes

Publicity about International Documentary Film Festival Docville on national television and radio attracted our attention. Between May 30th and June 5th, Docville's third edition, held in student city Leuven, brough...

TAKAHI KAWANISHI “EVERESTS”

2007.6.12　 Text: Eric Choo

On Saturday, June 9th, 2007 I had the fortunate opportunity to attend the opening party of "Everests" held at Shift's own, SOSO. Having met Takahi Kawanishi, the artist behind "Everests" the night before, I could tel...

FABRICA FEATURES “YOU ARE HERE”

2007.6.12　 Text: Yurie Hatano

After Paris, Fabrica, the Benetton communication research center, inaugurates at the Blaak 10 space in Rotterdam a new temporary store which will stay open until December 2007. The occasion is the opening of YOU ARE ...

JORDAN WOLFSON “OPTICAL SOUND”

2007.6.8　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

The first thing you experience when arrived at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Conteporanea to visit the show “Optical Sound” is a sound indeed: Jordan Wolfson, a young American born artist living in New York and Berlin, ha...

OFFF FESTIVAL 2007

2007.6.5　 Text: Eduard Prats Molner

The seventh edition of the OFFF festival presents itself with a statement for renovation. And so it goes, the rich media starts to be mature and so has been OFFF as well. Yes! in my opinion OFFF offered the most solid...

FACTORY PROJECT “THE FORMS OF TRANSPARENCY”

2007.5.21　 Text: Shinichi Ishikawa

If I have nice things beside myself, I feel I get something by itself. “The Forms of Transparency” is the exhibition, which is the fair for furniture and products made in collaboration of young designers with small-sc...

EAST LONDON ART WALKS

2007.5.14　 Text: Sawako Kanematsu

On April 21st I had a chance to join the East London Art Walks hosted by COMMENT ART. COMMENT ART is a group that dispatches information about art in London. They produce the East London art map, which coverts galle...