KUNSTMATRIX

  Yesterday gallery Edition Domberger, Filderstadt opened their 15th online exhibition.

In Klassisch schön zum Jahresausklang they are presenting works from artists like Imi Knoebel. Robert Longo, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mangold, Nam June Paik, Sigmar Polke, Christo and Andy Warhol. 

Congratulations to video artist Elizabeth Price, winner of the Turner Prize 2012!

Fascinated by the variety and ingenuity of deer stands photo collective augustundjuli has captured 30 high seats in their series "Jagdrevier". 

The end of the year is coming closer and Galerie am Stall, Hude is presenting their annual last exhibition entitled "Stilleben". 

Five artists, among them Martin Koroscha, Herwig Gillerke, Rolf Blume and Willy van der Duyn, have created photographies, paintings, printed graphics and installations that show unexpected and surprising contents. 

On December 2nd, 2012 at 2pm Dutch artist Willy van der Duyn is showcasing his way of working in "Farb-Holzdruck – wie geht das?"

Our virtual exhibitor Galerie Michael Schultz, Berlin recently unveiled its new website! Visit it here.

"Audioguides und Apps beim Museumsbesuch werden immer beliebter. Ein Selbstversuch"

After 40 years of collecting art the Bielefeld based Teutloff Photo + Video Collection has recently opened its own virtual museum.

The Teutloff Collection comprises more than 1000 works by almost 300 artists from more than 30 countries and focuses socially, politically, religiously and globally on the human body.

In the opening exhibition The face of freedom works by artists like Alfredo Jaar, Michael Najjar, Boris Mikhailov or Jonathan Horowitz are shown in the virtual building of the German Bundestag. 

"The internationalized art world relies on a unique language. Its purest articulation is found in the digital press release. This language has everything to do with English, but it is emphatically not English. It is largely an export of the Anglophone world and can thank the global dominance of English for its current reach. But what really matters for this language—what ultimately makes it a language—is the pointed distance from English that it has always cultivated.

In what follows, we examine some of the curious lexical, grammatical, and stylistic features of what we call International Art English. We consider IAE’s origins, and speculate about the future of this language through which contemporary art is created, promoted, sold, and understood. Some will read our argument as an overelaborate joke. But there’s nothing funny about this language to its users. And the scale of its use testifies to the stakes involved. We are quite serious."

On the rise—and the space—of the art-world press release.

"Saatchi Online, the six-year-old digital gallery founded by the advertising magnate and art collector Charles Saatchi, is starting a new push to promote its platform for up-and-coming artists. This week the gallery is introducing its first exhibition under its new chief executive, Margo Spiritus, “100 Curators 100 Days.” For the show 100 curators from around the world each chose 10 artists to showcase on the site for a day. In addition to independent curators, the list of participants includes experts from the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Vienna Kunsthalle and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The 1,000 artists were chosen from among 60,000 represented on Saatchi Online."

"A forger-proof system for “fingerprinting” art? [...]

The system begins with the selection of a small section (as small as 3.5-millimeters-square) of an object, chosen by the owner so that only the owner and the scientist know its precise location. This area is photographed digitally using a roughness measurement called tribology, which measures the texture of a surface down to one one-thousandth of a millimeter (one micron). Roughness is used, rather than color, because color is more likely to change over time. This system effectively bounces digital beams off the surface and produces a spiky graph of the roughness and smoothness of the surface. It is sensitive enough to detect textures even in glazed porcelain — where invisible-to-the-eye micro-bubbles form during the firing process. This data can be transformed into a color map (red indicating a high area, blue indicating low, flat, and smooth zones), which can be extrapolated into a three-dimensional color map of the section of the artwork. Dr. Wei has found that this color section is unique to objects in a wide variety of media, and therefore functions like a unique “fingerprint” of the object that is, to today’s technology, unforgeable."

During summer break Berlin based Vero Linzmeier Galerie is presenting photographic and painted works by Lisa F. Holldorf and Ina Weissflog from their last exhibitions "bottom up" and "Keks" in their virtual group show.

While Lisa F. Holldorf addresses the Estonian word "keks" for hopscotch from different perspectives, Ina Weissflog is dissecting and staging deserted spaces. 

After taking photos of rooms in dozens of single pictures from different perspectives, she is composing one new picture of all of these views.