FIAC 2016: Art Exhibitions, Live Performances and Film Screenings

By Urban Mishmash

The highly anticipated international contemporary art fair, FIAC (Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporaine), will run from October 20 to 23, 2016 in Paris.

Bigger in scope than its previous editions, the 2016 edition will bring together 186 art galleries from around the world at the Grand Palais in Paris, including, for the first time, exhibitors from Japan, Hong Kong, Poland and Hungary. The art fair will also feature a series of outdoor exhibitions, live performances and film screenings at various historic venues across Paris, including the Louvre, Petit Palais, the Tuileries Gardens and Place Vendôme.

FIAC 2016 at the Grand Palais

The main exhibitions of the 43rd edition of FIAC will be on view at the Grand Palais in Paris. The Nave will host 108 international art galleries presenting works by internationally acclaimed and emerging artists, while the Salon d’Honneur and the Upper Galleries on the first floor will feature several art galleries dedicated to discovering and promoting new and emerging artists.

Marina Abramovic, Holding the Goat (from the series Back to Simplicity), 2010. © Marina Abramovic. Courtesy Marina Abramovic Archives

This year’s edition of FIAC will also see the inauguration of Salon Jean Perrin and will host nine art galleries presenting solo exhibitions of ten artists from 1970s onwards, including Endre Tót, Darío Villalba, Nil Yalter, Hessie, Irma Blank, Henri Chopin, William S. Burroughs, Tetsumi Kudo, Ilona Keserü and György Jovánovics.

Endre Tót, 60 degrees reain, (1971-76). Courtesy Endre Tót and acb Gallery

Additionally, the Lafayette Sector of FIAC 2016 that focuses on the international emerging arts scene will feature exhibitions by ten art galleries from seven countries, including Mexico, India, Germany and England.

FIAC 2016
From October 20 to October 23, 2016 (from noon to
8pm, late night opening until 9 pm on October 21, 2016)
At the Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
Day Ticket €35 (Reduced Tariff €20); Catalogue €35; Day ticket + catalogue (package) €60

Hors Les Murs

FIAC 2016 will also unfold a series of sculptures and visual and sound installations for the Hors Les Murs sector at three outdoor venues in Paris: the National Museum of Eugene Delacroix, the Tuileries Gardens and Place Vendôme. Swiss installation artist Ugo Rondinone will present his new series alluding to the ‘ghosts of the passage of time’ at Place Vendôme.

Arad Ron, The Armadillo Tea Pavilion. Courtesy Revolution Precrafted

Visitors will also have free access to large-scale installations and artworks by artists such as Mircea Cantor, Gloria Friedmann, Ron Arad, Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen at the Tuileries Gardens.

At the Tuileries Garden (Inauguration at noon, October 18, 2016, runs through November 2016), Place de la Concorde, 75001 Paris; Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris (runs through November 2016); Musée National Eugène Delacroix, 6 Rue de Furstenberg, 75006 Paris
Free Access

On Site at the Petit Palais

For the first time for its 2016 edition, FIAC has announced the opening of the new On Site sector at the Petit Palais. On Site will feature around forty sculptures and installations in the various galleries and the garden of the Petit Palais.

Paolozzi Eduardo, Collage City (1975). Courtesy the artist and C L E A R I N G

On Site
From October 19 to October 23, 2016 (10 am to 6 pm, late night opening until 9 pm on October 19 and 21, 2015)
At the Petit Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
Free Access

Poetry, Music and Performance

This year’s FIAC will also see the inauguration of a performance arts festival Parades to support and strengthen artistic intersections between music, poetry, contemporary dance and performance arts. The festival will feature multiple live performances at the Louvre, Grand Palais and Petit Palais. Amongst other performances on the programme, Moroccan dancer and choreographer

Amongst other performances on the programme, Moroccan dancer and choreographer Buchra Ouizguen will present a nomadic performance at the Louvre, while artist and director Tim Etchells will collaborate with violinist Aisha Orazbayeva to present an unusual interaction between music and spoken text at Palais de la Découverte.

Buchra Ouizguen, Corbeaux, 2014. © Hasnae El Ouarga

At Musée du Louvre, 75001 Paris; Palais de la Découverte, Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008 Paris; and the Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
Free access subject to availability unless mentioned otherwise in the programme.

Other events

The programme for this year’s FIAC also includes conferences organised in the “Conversation Room” in a dedicated space at the top of the stunning staircase of the Grand Palais, which will address art’s relationship with architecture, science and diplomacy.

From October 21 to October 23, 2016 (Conferences at 2 pm, 3:30 pm and 5 pm)
At the Grand Palais, Conversation Room, on the 1st floor from the Grand Escalier d’Honneur, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris

As part of the seventh edition of Cinéphémère, a selection of short artists’ films will be screened in a beautiful, 14-seater theatre at Place Clémenceau. The programme includes new films by Sara Ramo, Klara Liden, Bani Abidi, João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, Loretta Fahrenholz and Laure Prouvost.

From October 19 to October 23, 2016 (noon to 8 pm, registration at the entrance)
At Container Place Clémenceau, 75001 Paris

Finally, at the Palais de la Découverte, PLATFORM (a grouping of 23 regional funds for contemporary art) will present a selection of films from their collection on the themes of art and science.

From October 19 to October 23, 2016 (4 pm to 8 pm)
At Conference Room, Palais de la Découverte, Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008 Paris
Entrance from 6.30 pm through the Salon d’Honneur of the Grand Palais

For more information about FIAC 2016, visit the official page here.

Century Properties continues to raise the bar in luxury living

by Rizal Raoul Reyes, Business Mirror

THE economic boom in Southeast Asia has led to the growing affluence of its people. With a bigger purchasing power, several developers have been encouraged to venture into the luxury market. As a result, this has also led into the entry of high-class brands in housing paraphernalia.

Although a big number of famous brands have entered the Philippine market, none has created much impact than the entry of one of the most esteemed names in luxury furnishings and interior design—Armani/Casa.

Robbie Antonio, managing director of Century Properties Group, said the launching of Century Spire in 2014, as the first luxury mixed-use tower in the region to be designed by the world-leading Italian brand of Giorgio Armani, has been a very positive addition to the luxury property market. He added that the project continues to draw interest from affluent Filipinos and foreign nationals, with the highest concentration in Asia.

“Excitement always surrounds exceptional developments, and especially so if its value is magnified by a design brand that is revered the world over. Through its remarkable interior design for Century Spire, Armani/Casa perfectly captures the Asian market with finer tastes in luxury,” said Antonio in a press statement.

The design studio’s projects in Asia include the Maçka Residences in Istanbul and the World Towers in Mumbai. Manila, Philippines, is joining this prestigious collection of Armani/Casa Interior Design Studio creations through the Century Spire project, underscoring the country’s maturity in view of global luxury.

Giorgio Armani said the Century Spire project continues to be a game changer in the property-development sector. “Developers, like the  Century Properties Group, have projected the real-estate sector in its full maturity, changing Manila’s urban landscape and helping to make the country a top destination worldwide,” Armani said.

For Century Spire’s residential component, Armani/Casa is responsible for the design of common spaces and amenities, which include the grand lobby, library, swimming pool with juice bar and relaxation area, as well as the spa, gym and fitness areas. In addition, on request, residential apartments can be delivered with full Armani/Casa interior design, finish and furniture as a special commission.

Complementing the elegance of Armani/Casa’s interior design for Century Spire is the equally arresting tower architecture conceived by the renowned architecture firm Studio Daniel Libeskind.

“I’m interested in the dialogue between two companies that have different ‘languages’: that of a rigorous Armani style and the unpredictable style of architecture called ‘deconstructive,’ with shapes that seem to break the rules. I also find it very interesting that this dialogue takes place in an emerging and promising context like the Philippines,” Armani said.

 

Related Links: About Robbie Antonio, Contact

Revolution Pre-Crafted Properties launched Classy Modular Homes for Masses

by MHProNews

Filipino real estate developer “Robbie Antonio defines the art of living by living with art,” writes Keren Blankfeld in Forbes. Antonio launched Revolution Pre-crafted Properties with the aim of offering designer class to his nation’s middle class.

“I want the homes to be perceived as art pieces,” Antonio says of the typical 1000 square foot homes that sell for about $300,000. He has partnerships with such notables as Donald Trump, Paris Hilton and Forbes.

His firm has global ambitions, with buyers from diverse locations such as Russia and Central America. He contracts the building to various production centers. Some of the production facilities are using advanced robotics.

U.S. factory builders…are you watching developments like this?

 

Related Links: About Robbie Antonio , Contact

Design at Large: Kengo Kuma and Jean Prouvé feature in Art Basel’s 2016 offering

by Rosa Bertoli, Wallpaper*

For the third year, Design Miami/ Basel presented the large-scale projects of Design at Large, welcoming visitors to the South Hall of Messe Basel. 

Eschewing a traditional booth, the Design at Large initiative invites gallerists to take part in a curated project that explores different points of view on design. This year, publishing heiress Martina Mondadori(opens in new tab) took the helm of the project, focusing on the theme of nature and outdoor living, explored via an eclectic mix of structures and installations. 

Mondadori chose the theme of ‘Landscape’, she says, to ‘invite designers and galleries to confront themselves with the outdoors and re-imagine the space within gardens’. Mondadori cites inspirations such as 19th century British follies and Italian garden labyrinths as the starting points for her theme. The reactions from the nine participants were eclectic and diverse, proving that such a remit can excite and inspire creative ideas. 

Installed like a canopy at the very entrance to the fair were Tom Price’s ‘PP Trees’ (created in collaboration with Victor Hunt gallery), an eerie forest made of polypropylene pile that invites visitors to question attitudes towards plastic and nature. 

Inside the space, Galerie Patrick Seguin participated with the 1956 ‘School of Villejuif’ by Jean Prouvé, a temporary emergency structure for the Parisian suburb which in true Prouvé fashion could be installed and dismantled in a short time. The prefab acted as an anchor in the large venue, with further installations dotted around it in the cavernous hall. These included Kengo Kuma’s ‘Owan’ pavilion, part of Galerie Philippe Gravier’s ‘Small Nomad House Project’, an initiative dedicated to the marriage of art and architecture. Nearby, Dimore Studio’s ‘Verande’ took a completely different approach; presented like an outdoors and indoors space at once, the tent was furnished with Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci’s outdoors collection hidden in a deep forest of palm trees and enlivened by blue curtains and a soft breeze produced by the ceiling fans. 

Nearby, two installations were presented in close conversation with each other: Masatoshi Izumi and Koichi Hara’s ‘Stone Tea House Meditative Alcove’ and Enea Landscape Architecture’s bamboo composition offered a corner of tranquil serenity. 

On the other side of the show, Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk’s ‘Civilised Primitives’, developed with Nilufar, was a collection of handcrafted objects in bronze that invited viewers to ponder about survival in the present world. The collection was displayed under a large Bedouin-style tent featuring an abstract watercolor motif by the designer, in collaboration with print specialist Exposize. 

Ron Arad’s ‘Armadillo Tea Canopy’, presented by Robbie Antonio’s Revolution Pre-Crafted Properties, is an independent shell structure for indoor or outdoor use, a multifunctional piece which can offer shelter as well as serve as a meditation space. The modular canopy is composed of five individual shells fixed together with exposed brackets and fixings, with the possibility of extending it by adding further elements. 

Visitors to the fair took full advantage of Alexandra Kehayoglou’s ‘No Longer Creek’ installation, created in collaboration with Artsy. The Argentine rug maker reimagined the now transfigured Raggio creek, north of Buenos Aires, and through her work brought back to life its vegetation. People could walk and rest on the large tapestry, immerse themselves in its landscape and interact with the piece – it is in fact a Design at Large tradition that visitors often have the chance to get up close and personal with the structures and installations on show, offering a more intimate experience with design and expanding its boundaries beyond the gallery walls. 

Enea Landscape Architecture’s bamboo composition offered a corner of tranquil serenity
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t was presented in close proximity to Masatoshi Izumi and Koichi Hara’s ’Stone Tea House Meditative Alcove’
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Ron Arad’s ’Armadillo Tea Canopy’ is an independent shell structure for indoor or outdoor use, a multifunctional piece which can offer shelter as well as serve as a meditation space
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Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk’s ’Civilised Primitives’ is a collection of handcrafted objects in bronze that invite viewers to ponder about survival in the present world
(Image credit: Kiki van Eijk)
Galerie Patrick Seguin participated with the 1956 ’School of Villejuif’ by Jean Prouvé, a temporary emergency structure for the Parisian suburb
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Kengo Kumas’s ’Owan’ pavilion is part of Galerie Philippe Gravier’s ’Small Nomad House Project’, an initiative dedicated to the marriage of art and architecture
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Dimore Studio’s ’Verande’ took a completely different approach; presented like an outdoors and indoors space at once, the tent was furnished with an outdoor collection hidden in a deep forest of palm trees
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Alexandra Kehayoglou’s ’No Longer Creek’ installation was created in collaboration with Artsy; the Argentine rug maker reimagined the now transfigured Raggio creek, north of Buenos Aires
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INFORMATION

For more information, visit the Design Miami/Basel website

Related Links: About Robbie Antonio , Contact

Cabana mood: Martina Mondadori on Design Miami/ Basel and Design at Large

by Rosa Bertoli, Wallpaper*

Until two years ago, Martina Mondadori was mainly known as the heiress of her family’s editorial empire. Born and bred in Italy, Mondadori comes from the illustrious family owning the eponymous publishing house, of which she now sits on the board.

Publishing, it seems, is second nature for Mondadori: following a degree in philosophy from Milan’s state university, since 2006 she has been involved in various editorial projects, such as the Cultural Content Factory, which she founded ten years ago, specialised in the creative and editorial direction of projects related to art, book publishing and design, subsequently working for Italian magazine Tar before founding Anew, an editorial platform mixing contemporary art and fashion.

But it is in 2014 that her name became more clearly associated with art and design publishing, when she founded Cabana, a visual periodical she launched in collaboration with German creative director Christoph Radl. Structured like a chunky visual journal, the quarterly publication gathered Mondadori’s visual world and presented it through a collection of tableaux, illustrations and essays on art and design. This move was inspired by her own love of collecting, and observation of contemporary craftsmanship which she distilled into what she describes as a very specific visual universe.

This year, the Cabana universe collides with Design Miami/ Basel, as Mondadori was invited to curate the latest instalment of the annual Design at Large programme as well as contribute a graphic makeover to the fair’s identity. ‘Rodman [Primack] was one of the first supporters of Cabana,’ says Mondadori. ‘He admired its diversity and how it offered a nostalgic aesthetic element in a world where conceptualism seems to be the rule.’

The eclecticism behind Cabana is very telling of Mondadori’s own collecting attitude: ‘I have always been interested in different arts and crafts, and mixing important pieces with flea market finds.’ Mondadori collects painted ceramics from Central America and Eastern Europe, and Italian design from the 40s and 50s, Giò Ponti and stil novo. From her contemporaries, she admires the works of similarly eclectic souls: Martino Gamper, Dimore Studio and Bethan Laura Wood, designers that are very representative of what she calls the ‘Cabana mood.’

A Design Miami/ Basel initiative now in its third year, Design at Large offers an oversized point of view on design. Previous curators focused on temporary structures and what goes on inside of them, and for this third edition, Mondadori decided to give the show a change of scenery. Her selection focuses on the outdoors; she developed the theme of Landscape in collaboration with Primack and invited galleries and designers to explore this theme.

‘Historically, architects have always been attracted to gardens and parks,’ she explains, citing ancient Greek gardens and 19th-century English follies. ‘I loved to see the diversity of the projects we commissioned, rich of formal and creative ideas.’ The selection ranges from ’s Armadillo Tea Pavilion to Dimore Studio’s leafy veranda, presenting the duo’s debut outdoors collection. There is ’s abstract Owan structure, merging abstract forms with architectural thinking, and Kiki van Eijk’s ‘Civilised Primitives’, a collection of bronze objects that explore primitive survival in a modern world.

‘Both Cabana and Design Miami/Basel are concerned with environments and living spaces,’ says Mondadori. For her, she explains, what is most interesting about merging these two aesthetics is to create a break and a strong contrast. ‘In a way, Cabana represents the exact opposite of Design Miami/ Basel: aesthetic vs form, decoration vs concept. Combining them is the most interesting challenge!’

The eclecticism behind Cabana is very telling of Mondadori’s own collecting attitude, which is the same charm she channeled into her visual identity for the international event (pictured).
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Structured like a chunky visual journal, the quarterly publication (pictured) gathers Mondadori’s visual world and presented it through a collection of tableaux, illustrations and essays on art and design
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I have always been interested in different arts and crafts, and mixing important pieces with flea market finds,’ explains Mondadori. Pictured: a snapshot of Cabana
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For this year’s Design at Large, Mondadori decided a change of scenery was needed. Her selection focuses on the outdoors, and the theme of landscapes, including Ron Arad’s Armadillo Tea Pavilion (pictured) presented by Robbie Antonio‘s Revolution Precrafted Properties.
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Kengo Kuma’s abstract Owan structure (pictured), merges abstract forms with architectural thinking, while Dimore Studio’s leafy veranda presents the duo’s debut outdoors collection. Presented by Galerie Philipe Gravier.
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Mondadori (pictured) concludes, ‘in a way, Cabana represents the exact opposite of Design Miami/Basel: aesthetic vs form, decoration vs concept. Combining them is the most interesting challenge’
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INFORMATION

Design Miami/Basel runs from 14–19 June 2016. For more information, visit the website

What to See at Design Miami Basel 2016

From Zaha Hadid furniture to Jean Prouvé’s office, here’s what everyone is buzzing about

by Ann Binlot, Architectural Digest

For its 11th edition, Design Miami Basel continues to show a strong selection of 20th- and 21st-century design in the Herzog & De Meuron–designed Messe Basel, right across from Art Basel in the titular Swiss town. The fair, which runs through June 19, features 46 galleries from around the globe (including New York’s Friedman Benda, Copenhagen’s Dansk Møbelkunst Gallery, and Rotterdam’s Galerie Vivid). Artist-designed jewelry over at Elisabetta Cipriani and Louisa Guinness provides wearable works, while New York–based Demisch Danant chose to display rare pieces by French designer Pierre Paulin. Swarovski highlighted the Designers of the Future, while Design at Large shows large-scale architectural structures. “My interest is trying to tell a more round story, a deeper and broader story about 20th-century and 21st-century design. It fleshes out in different ways year after year,” says Design Miami executive director Rodman Primack. Here, we select some of the highlights of Design Miami Basel 2016.

Jean Prouvé’s Bureau des Etudes at Patrick Seguin

“It was his Bureau d’Etudes, so every decision in terms of architecture, design, engineering, prototypes, models, everything, was made in this building,” says Patrick Seguin, who mounted an actual copy of Jean Prouvé’s office—one of the most impressive displays at the fair—complete with original details, in his stand. After Prouvé moved out, the building had several occupants—the latest being a swingers club and brothel—before Seguin, who owns the most Prouvé structures in the world, purchased the work space.

The Collectors Lounge

Berlin architecture firm Kuehn Malvezzi worked with Finnish design company Artek and Danish textilemaker Kvadrat to create an experiential lounge composed of inverted rooms. “The rooms move to the middle, and the furniture is arranged around them,” explains Artek managing director Marianne Goebl. Midcentury sofas by Finnish designer Ilmari Tapiovaara are covered in Kvadrat fabric designed by Raf Simons. “It has a bit of a Memphis impact, and we felt this sofa is a bit like a mannequin,” says Goebl. “It’s very simple, and you can dress it however you want.”

Ettore Sottsass Flying Carpet Chair and Couch at Erastudio Apartment-Gallery

Milan-based Erastudio Apartment-Gallery brought in a chair and couch designed in 1974 by Memphis pioneer Ettore Sottsass. The furniture initially had a less-than-stellar reception upon its release in the ’70s, but the Memphis resurgence is sure to bring a more positive reaction this time around. “As you can see, it has the look of a carpet—look at the footrest,” says Sumit Gupta, a member of the sales team at Erastudio Apartment-Gallery. The chair does, indeed, evoke the feel of Aladdin on a flying carpet.

Aage Porsbo Chandelier at Dansk Møbelkunst

Aage Porsbo designed this brass chandelier, produced by Kemp & Lauritzen, for the Skovlunde Church in Denmark in 1972. With only 28 copies in existence, the sleek object is a hot commodity. Unfortunately for collectors, the one Dansk Møbelkunst brought to the fair has already sold for nearly $25,000.

Pierre Paulin at Demisch Danant

To mark the late French designer Pierre Paulin’s current retrospective at the Centre Georges Pompidou, New York gallery Demisch Danant brought together a group of rare Paulin pieces created between the late 1960s and mid-’80s. Three standouts include the lime-green F286 Multimo three-seater sofa, the F271 Multimo chair, and the 1981 Cathedral table, whose curved aluminum panels were meant to emulate Notre Dame’s arches.

Zaha Hadid Design

Though the inimitable architect and designer passed away in March, her legacy lives on over at stand G47, where a selection of her furnishings are on display, including curved marble tables from the Mercuric collection, barnacle-like Tau vases, and the smooth-as-ice Liquid Glacial chairs, cocktail table, and stools.

Diego Giacometti Bookcase at Galerie Jacques Lacoste

Design Miami executive director Rodman Primack referred to the Diego Giacometti bookcase as a museum piece, and it’s easy to see why. Giacometti made the stunning bronze item for Marc Barbezat between 1966 and 1969, when the publisher commissioned him to create a room of books. The shelves stood in Barbezat’s apartment until recently.

Artist-Designed Jewelry at Louisa Guinness Gallery and Elisabetta Cipriani

London-based Louisa Guinness Gallery created a museumlike exhibition highlighting jewelry designed by the likes of artists Man Ray, Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso, and Anish Kapoor. Over at London gallery Elisabetta Cipriani are the Ai Weiwei gold bracelets that emulate the rebar the Chinese artist gathered from fallen buildings after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.

Ron Arad Armadillo Tea Pavilion

Revolution Precrafted Properties presents the Ron Arad Armadillo Tea Pavilion in the Design at Large section of the fair. Built for indoor and outdoor use, this independent shell structure “provides an intimate enclosure, shelter, or place of reflection within a garden, landscape, or large internal space,” as the wall text reads. The modular components allow for a number of configurations, making it a versatile structure wherever it goes.