Bruno Gironcoli at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 A sculpture by Bruno Gironcoli installed in front of Strabag Haus Donau-City in Vienna. Photo made in August, 2005 THE PAVILION OF AUSTRIA, a building by Josef Hoffmann, is modern and proper, architecture meant to please. His lovely pavilion, meant to be a place for educated ‘Kunstgenuss,’ is inhabited this year by works of the subversive...
And why it is so important to Creatives People like stories. People tell stories when they are with other people. People like to listen to stories others tell them. When people are not engaged in conversations with others, they look around to find what is happening around them; they search into the newspapers and books to read to find out the latest stories that matters...
JUNGLE: Which teachers, artists, movements helped change or form your perspectives about typography and typography design? Jean-Francois Porchez: I discover typefaces design by the link of Calligraphy during my first year of graphic courses with my teacher of calligraphy Ronan Le Henaff who at this time learn himself Type design at Atelier national de Creation Typographique. On the two years after I continue to explore...
Interview with Peter Bilak for ‘design jungle’ Korea , Spring 2001. How did you first get yourself exposed to the world of graphic design, and what formal/informal education or trainings did you have before you started your professional career as a designer? I started studying back in Czechoslovakia at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. While studying there, I went for an exchange...
Vienna Vienna is fast becoming not only a popular holiday destination for tourists from Eastern Europe but also the place where Eastern European artists in need of a gateway to the platform in the larger art market gather. This year’s edition of Viennafair, self-acclaimed as the international contemporary art fair focused on the CEE, boasted a nearly 19% increase in attendance compared to the previous...
Are we working around-the-clock? – Life in the 24-Hour Society Open 24 Hours, contemporary art exhibition goes on view from September 6th to 20th, 2007. “The history of the world is the record of man in quest of his daily bread and butter.” “The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in...
Vienna “Exportable Goods – Danish Art Now” at Krinzinger Projekte November 17th, 2006 – February 17th, 2007 Carlsberg, Lego and Bang & Olufsen is what comes to mind when Danish exports are the topic. This is quite remarkable already considering the size of this Nordic kingdom with about 6 million permanent citizens. There is also Arla foods, whose butter had been boycotted some time ago...
Cameron Jamie: Suburban Apocalypse as Theater David Bowie said he decided to become a rock star in order to leave his native suburban neighborhood. Matt Groening became a cartoon star by turning his suburbia experience into The Simpsons. Once standing for the utopia of a peaceful life, it has become the site of a zombie apocalypse (witness the comedy Shaun of the Dead (2004)). Now...
Vienna News Angus Fairhurst “The Problem with Banana Skins, Divided Inverted,” 1998 Polyurethanobjekt, 7 x 36 x 36 cm Photo: EVN Collection, Maria Enzersdorf “Everything stays better (Alles bleibt besser)” promises the current chancellor who is running for his third term in the national election this October. – A fitting slogan for the Austrian angst of anything that might change and an illustration for something...
