Berlin: Vine « urban plant research. NEW! SONG-MING ANG. Article by Jessyca Hutchens; Studio visit photographs by Song-Ming Ang and Jessyca Hutchens Although all art is ostensibly concerned with originality, the music world is kind of obsessed by it, still.
The most lauded musicians or bands are seen as a having a trendy set of ‘influences’ (which in no way detracts from their originality), while the most derided are seen as purely derivative. It is on this basis that pop music has been traditionally criticized; it relies too heavily on the familiar, the catchy refrain, to be seen as truly original.
Song-Ming Ang made music before he was an artist. As an experimental laptop musician, Song-Ming eventually felt that he was only emulating accepted styles. When I walk into Song-Ming Ang’s studio at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (where he was a resident for one-year until very recently) the music-art connection is hard to miss. “Speech Balloons” (2010), Postcards: found photographs + digitally inserted comic signs Parts and Labour” (2012), video. It In Lausanne « : Pre-departure thoughtsDERZEIT fashion week berlin daily. Au revoir Berlin, bonjour Lausanne!
The DERZEIT team has decided to take blogging more seriously, meaning that we get to do all the fancy stuff real bloggers do all the time, like leaving the office to travel and get an authentic feeling of what is really going on in the world. We overslept and missed our flight to Uganda, but fortunately we already have a new destination: as you read this, a small DERZEITdelegation is on the way to visit our lovely Swiss neighbours! Over the next few days we’ll be reporting from Lausanne on Lake Geneva, where the TJ showroom SS13 is taking place. TJ is a company that accompanies young fashion and accessory designers through their first steps into the fashion world. The showroom is presenting twelve talented newbies as they work on their breakthrough. Text by Celina Plag Photos by Jessica Barthel. Following Protests, Berlin's BMW Guggenheim Lab Has a Cautious Opening, Bringing Banana-Pianos to the People. BERLIN — After some serious controversy, the BMW Guggenheim Lab opened today in Berlin.
Don’t go looking for fanfare, parties, or even a sign from the street telling you how to get there, however. Tucked in a back courtyard of the Pfefferberg complex in Prenzlauerberg, this Lab is incognito to say the least. Perhaps that's not surprising, considering the threats triggered by its proposed Kreuzberg location, which ranged from petty vandalism to violent protest. “We got a lot of attention,” Guggenheim curator Maria Nicanor told ARTINFO Germany with a slight smile.
“I can’t tell you that I liked [the protests] but I found them interesting. Even the flow of press during the morning preview was curbed, with those interested in attending getting split into several groups at half-hour intervals. The methods may be precautionary, but the Lab has certainly not turned its back on those who would have had it disappear entirely.
The aforementioned protesters did in fact make an appearance. Bow and scrape to abstract painting. Davide Balliano: DOGBITE. Article by Alison Hugill, in Berlin; Wednesday, May 30, 2012 Dogbite, installation view at Delloro Contemporary / Photo by Nikki Brendson The space at Berlin Kreuzberg’s Delloro Contemporary Art, run by Italian gallerist Rolando Anselmi, is a radiant setting for any exhibition: the fortress-like doors of this third-floor warehouse loft open onto an exquisite white space, with multiple windows dispensing light from either side.
But the gallery seems particularly fitting for Davide Balliano’s show ‘Dogbite’. Balliano’s exhibit is at the crossroads of architecture and design. The gallery floor is adorned with several wooden sculptures, created on site during a 4-week residency that the artist undertook at Delloro, while the walls display design works on canvas and a collection of earlier pieces described as ‘interventions on book pages’. The latter interventions have as their ‘canvas’ portraits extracted from what might have been old, black and white art history textbooks. “Untitled. ARTS REVIEW: BERLINISCHE GALERIE - 'STREETS AND FACES 1919 -1933' Plum à Berlin.