Art Basel 2013 | Visitor’s Impressions

The 44th edition of Swiss Art Basel has started this week offering the very best in art scene.
Let’s share some impressions of the mother of all art fairs…

Dean Blunt “The Redeemer” – my album of the month

Well, the last album of the month became an album for three months, but a look at our home page will show you, that I was very busy and could not return to my little column earlier. But I return with an amazing album from one half of indie darlings Hype Williams. Dean Blunt, who released his debut solo album “The Narcissist II” last year, follows up with the enigmatic “The Redeemer”, a kind of audio drama in its truest sense. Folky pop songs are mixed with electronic sound collages, vocals and noises play an equal role – an artsy experiment or just the blueprint of how pop music has to sound these days, you decide!

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The Redeemer - Dean Blunt

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The importance of details in an outfit brings us to a search of the exclusive accessory – glasses are often the best companions. This simple pair of glasses feature a customizable frame with small holes which can be embroided with colored thread and needle. Free play to your creativity and imagination!

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YAYOI KUSAMA: ‘Obsessions’ / Exhibition in Hanoi

A girl plays at the "Guidepost to New Space" installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at her exhibition in Hanoi

2013 is the year of the Japan – Vietnam Friendship. In celebration of this the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam presents an installation art exhibition with famous works of “polka dot queen” Yayoi Kusama in Hanoi.

From May 25, 2013 – July 28, 2013 the oversized and psychedelic installations  ”Narcissus Garden”, “Guidepost to the New Space”, “I’m Here, but Nothing” and “Dots Obsessions” can be experienced very close.

Venue:

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam

27 Quang Trung street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, Vietnam

Opening hours Mon-Sun 09:00 – 18:00

free admission

http://jpf.org.vn/en/2013/05/14/installation-exhibition-yayoi-kusama-obsessions/

picture by: REUTERS

Margiela Installation Milan

While everybody else was checking up the multiple exhibition venues around the Salone del Mobile, I jumped over to Maison Martin Margiela Milano to discover French artist Cédric Bernadotte’s installation of “Residual Spaces”, showcasing furniture and objects, wrapped in industrial cellophane. Really WOOOW!

Stone Pattern

great Installation from Burdi @ Salone del Mobile Milan 2013

 

Chanel’s the little black jacket exhibition @ Milano

Just in time with the Salone del Mobile, Chanel make a stopover with the little black jacket exhibition in Milan. Karl Lagerfeld’s (with Carine Roitfeld) amazing photographs of the reinterpretation of Chanel’s iconic jacket in an impressive historical building to accompany with spotted light and electronic music. The book, available at most of the book stores, is a must have.

Vitra @ Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milano

Vitra came with a related structure like last year, but the installations are still incredible and shows us, that they are one of the leaders in furniture and interior design. Fron the outside they bring illuminedwhite plastic boxes into a luxury context. Inside they created various colour worlds into small boxes with a distinguished view for details. Thanks for it…