HOTEL WONDER

2006.5.5　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

Hotel Wonder is La Perla's outstanding contribution to the apparently endless number of collateral shows and celebrations organized in parallel with the Milan Furniture Fair 2006 in via Tortona, an area in the south o...

THE 4TH BERLIN BIENNALE

2006.5.1　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

The 4th Berlin Biennale has started. This time, it is held along the Auguststrasse, which used to be the main street for commercial galleries in Berlin. I am writing "used to be", because the Berlin art scene has long...

DING DONG! ART FESTIVAL 2006

2006.5.1　 Text: Ayako Yamamoto

At the Altona station in Hamburg, German as you keep walking along the vehicle-free promenade you will see an empty building built in 1970s. One of the department stores in the building Karstadt, which has offices thr...

NIPPON CONNECTION 2006

2006.5.1　 Text: Catrin Altenbreandt

In the year 2000 seven students in Frankfurt, Germany formed Nippon Connection to show their love to Japanese films and culture to a broader audience. This idea has lead to Europeans biggest Japanese Film Festival, wi...

MATTHEW BARNEY “DRAWING RESTRAINT 9”

2006.5.1　 Text: Futakawa Yoshitaka

The "Drawing Restraint" series was started by Matthew Barney while he was a student drawing "free climbing" pictures. It was his first solo exhibition, "The Cremaster Cycle" at the Guggenheim Museum, where I was able ...

DESIGN THIEF ON THE RUN WITH BAGS FROM LISA SMITH & EYE-PATCH FROM DAMIAN O’SULLIVAN

2006.4.24　

Last week thieves in Milan broke into the "TuttoBeNe" group exhibition of Belgian and Dutch designers during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Design thief on the run with bags from Lisa Smith & Eye-Patch ...

CAO FEI “COSPLAYERS”

2006.4.5　 Text: Samantha Culp

It's been a while since a genuine "art star" has had a show in Hong Kong, so the opening of Cao Fei's COSplayers at Para/site Gallery in Sheung Wan was quite an occasion. The young Guangzhou-based artist has been busy...

THE 11TH AUSTRIAN SNOOKER OPEN

2006.4.5　 Text: Christina Merl

"Nice pots!" If you come to notice shoppers who seem utterly delighted at the sight of "pots" in the newly opened Europark shopping centre in the lovely city of Salzburg later this month, and if you simply can't find ...

RESOLUTION/DISSOLUTION II

2006.4.5　 Text: Yoshito Maeoka

In a note not directly related to this article, the Berlin Biennale has begun at the end of March. As I noticed with interest, a number of small to medium-scale, yet high-quality exhibitions have been planned to coinc...

BEAUTIFUL LOSERS

2006.4.5　 Text: Francesco Tenaglia

"Beautiful Losers" is an itinerant show co-curated by Aaron Rose and Christian Strike - the first is the man behind the Alleged Gallery, the second founded of Strength magazine. Since 2004, this counter-culture blockb...

ALTERNATIVE FASHION WEEK 2006

2006.4.5　 Text: Sayaka Hirakawa

Every Sunday, Spitalfields market is busy with new designers, artists, and vintage clothing dealers. You can say this is the most fashionista-loving market in London. Now, this week after the end of London's official ...

ANTENNA DESIGN “PATTERN RECOGNITION”

2006.4.5　 Text: Carlos J. Gomez

Antenna Design is having their second solo exhibition at Frederieke Taylor Gallery. For this show the theme of urbanity is explored through a series of imaginative outdoor and indoor installation ideas. Cleverly desig...