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Type Case by Martin Bircher

Posted by Fabio 1 November 2010

The installation Type Case is a low-resolution display with 125 rectangular pixels of different sizes. These are formed from the reflecting light of digitally controlled LEDs, embedded in each section of a European printers’ type case. read more

Stuart Hawkins

Posted by Fabio 1 November 2010

Stuart Hawkins collaborated with local artisans in Kolkata, India to build handcrafted props modeled after luxury items found in elite vacation resorts. Constructed to be oversized, with distorted proportions, and placed in sparse environs, Hawkins enacts impromptu public performances with her props that reference a global divide of waste and wealth.

Bad Things That Could Happen

Posted by Fabio 1 November 2010

Bad Things That Could Happen is a self explanatory film made up of seven short scenes. Playing with scale and bringing objects to life, the film creates a subverted world where the mundane becomes absurd. Directed by This Is It.

www.thisisitcollective.com

SYLVIE HUYSMAN

Posted by Fabio 29 October 2010

Sylvie Huysman studied the effects of gravity on human movement. if asked she can reproduce gravity’s pull on a wall making it seem as if she is slowly falling vertically. The effect is so unnerving and so fundamentally wrong that it makes you feel a little nauseous just looking at it.

www.sylviehuysman.be
www.projectprobe.net

Vincenzo Castella

Posted by Fabio 29 October 2010

The Italian photographer Vincenzo Castella, focuses on the contemporary urban and Industrial landscape using a large format camera and digital printing technology. His panoramic photographs of European cities like Turin, Athens, Cologne and Amsterdam are rich in detail and are proof of the historical past of these cities as well as of the continual modern changes. The pictures are influenced by a knowledge of the history of Painting and photography. read more

The 2010 Poppy Appeal ‘2 Minute Silence’ music video by Matthew Donaldson

Posted by Fabio 29 October 2010

Featuring Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and a host of other celebrities including Mark Ronson and Plan B. The Royal British Legion chose 2AM‘s Matthew Donaldson to direct the first ever silent single ‘2 Minute Silence’ which aims to make chart history on Remembrance Sunday. read more

Breaking Bounderies

Posted by Fabio 28 October 2010

Galerie Kashya Hildebrand is proud to pay tribute to five highly respected and celebrated artists from the Middle East. Mohammad Ehsai, Ahmed Moustafa, Ali Omar Ermes, Charles Hossein Zenderoudi, Nja Mahdaoui.

Kashya Hildebrand
28 October – 11 December 2010
Zürich

Jessica macCormack

Posted by Fabio 28 October 2010

Working with animation, video, painting, drawing, installation and intervention, Jessica macCormack interdisciplinary practice examines the complex position of culture within neoliberal capitalism and critiques modes of social control, while exploring the potential for art to function as a site of resistance. She specifically interested in how modes of violence are perpetuated collectively through popular narratives, concepts of justice and denial of accountability. read more

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