A R T Communication + Brand Consultancy Announces the Representation of Art Paris 2020

December 16, 2019

Art Paris 2019, Grand Palais © Marc Domage — *Art Paris 2019*, Grand Palais © Marc Domage

April 2—5, 2020, Grand Palais
Opening Preview: Wednesday, April 1 | 6—10 PM

December 16, 2019 (Paris) – A R T Communication + Brand Consultancy is pleased to announce its international PR representation of Art Paris, as the fair returns to the Grand Palais from April 2—5, 2020. In the 20 years since its founding, Art Paris has established itself as Paris’s major spring fair for modern and contemporary art. Bringing together more than 150 galleries from over 20 countries – from the post-war to the contemporary period, Art Paris is a place for discovery, placing special emphasis on the European scene, whilst exploring the new horizons of international creative hubs, whether in Asia, Africa, the Middle East or Latin America.

For its 22nd edition, the fair will showcase a two-fold “Focus” – turning to both the French contemporary art scene and the emerging Iberian art hubs, specifically Barcelona, Lisbon, Madrid and Porto. In parallel, the “Solo Show” sector will be dedicated to monographic exhibitions, while “Promises” pursues its support to young and emerging galleries.

A Overview of the French Art Scene | Common and Uncommon Stories
Each year, Art Paris invites a curator to engage critically with a selection of projects by French artists presented by participating galleries. In Common and Uncommon Stories, director of the Bourse Révélations Emerige and guest curator Gaël Charbau brings together the work of 21 artists, most of which were born in the 1980s, responding to the notion of the narrative and the ambiguous interplay between singularity and universality in storytelling.
The selection highlights notably artists including Abdelkader Benchamma (Galerie Templon), Anita Molinero (Galerie Thomas Bernard), Elsa & Johanna (Galerie La Forest Divonne), Louis-Cyprien Rials (Galerie Eric Mouchet), Jennyfer Grassi (Galerie Eva Hober), Baptiste Rabichon (Galerie Paris-Beijing) and Ugo Schiavi (Double V Gallery), among others.

Focus | Southern Stars: An Exploration of the Iberian Peninsula
Following its extensive survey of the Latin American scene in 2019, the “Focus” sector turns to the Iberian Peninsula, bringing light to Spanish and Portuguese art from the 1950s to the present day. Some 24 galleries will be presenting works by a selection of 74 artists – from modern masters (Manuel Cargaleiro, Joan Miró, Antonio Saura, Antoni Tàpies, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva) to contemporary artists (Miguel Branco, Jorge Queiroz, Cristina Lucas, Jaume Plensa, Rui Toscano, and more). In parallel, projects including a video programme, installations, and conferences at the Instituto Cervantes and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris will highlight the creative effervescence flourishing in this part of Southern Europe.
Southern Stars: An Exploration of the Iberian Peninsula is curated by Barcelona-based independent curator Carolina Grau.

Solo Show
Since 2015, Art Paris has encouraged the presentation of monographic exhibitions – a key moment in artists’ careers – by inciting galleries to present specific single artist-focused projects. The 2020 edition will feature around 20 solo shows distributed throughout the fair. Highlights will include a site-specific project by South African artist Roger Ballen (Galerie Caroline Smulders in association with Galerie Karsten Greve); a mini-retrospective of British artist – best known for his colourful “puddle” paintings – Ian Davenport (Galleria Luca Tommasi - Arte Contemporanea); and a rare ensemble of works by Jesse A. Fernández at Galerie Orbis Pictus that will reveal the versatile talent of this major Cuban artist.

Promises | A Section for Young Galleries and Emerging Talents
Purposefully placed at the very heart of the Grand Palais, “Promises” will host 14 young galleries from Abidjan, Brussels, Lima, Lisbon, Rome, Sofia, Marseille and Paris, many of which will be making their international debut at Art Paris this year. Founded in the last six years, the galleries will each be presenting between one and three emerging artists – and benefit from financial sponsorship from the fair.

The 2020 list of exhibitors and program will be released in January 2020.

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NOTES TO EDITORS

About Gaël Charbau | Guest Curator | Common and Uncommon Stories
An independent curator and art critic, Gaël Charbau founded the contemporary art journal Particules in 2003. Artistic director of the Universcience (Palais de la Découverte and Cité des Sciences, Paris) and the director of the Bourse Révélations Emerige – supporting emerging artists working in France and which he co-founded in 2014 – he also acted as artistic director for the Nuit Blanche 2018. He regularly organizes exhibitions throughout Europe and Asia and works with a wide range of institutions, programs and patrons including the Palais de Tokyo, La Friche Belle de Mai, the Audi talents program and the Fondation d’Entreprise Hermès.

About Carolina Grau | Guest Curator | Southern Stars: An Exploration of the Iberian Peninsula
Carolina Grau has been working as an independent curator specializing in contemporary art for the past two decades. She has produced exhibitions for a wide range of institutions in France, Portugal, Brazil, Italy and Spain, working both with established and emerging artists. Grau was the co-founder and co-curator of the Bienal de Jafre (Spain, 2003—2015) and associate curator at the Arquipélago Centro de Artes Contemporáneas (Azores) in 2017. In 2019, she curated the mid-career retrospective of Spanish artist Angela de la Cruz at CGAC Santiago de Compostela (Spain), and is currently working on the solo exhibition of Portuguese artist Vasco Barata for the MAAT (Lisbon).

About Art Paris 2020
Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris
www.artparis.com

Opening Preview (by invitation only)
Wednesday, April 1 | 6PM–10PM

Opening hours
Thursday, April 2 | 11.30AM—8PM
Friday, April 3 | 11.30AM—9PM
Saturday, April 4 | 11.30AM—8PM
Sunday, April 5 | 11.30AM—7PM

The Armory Show Announces Participating Exhibitors and Themed Curatorial Sections for the 2020 Edition

December 12, 2019

Works by Ai Weiwei at Deitch Projects, The Armory Show 2019. Photograph by Teddy Wolff — *Works by Ai Weiwei at Deitch Projects, The Armory Show 2019.* Photograph by Teddy Wolff

178 exhibitors from 31 countries will once again convene in Midtown Manhattan at Piers 90 and 94 for a 2020 edition featuring an expanded curatorial program and 30 first-time exhibitors.

December 12, 2019 (New York) – The 2020 edition of The Armory Show, taking place March 5–8, will welcome 178 exhibitors from 31 countries, convening in Midtown Manhattan at Piers 90 and 94.

The upcoming edition will see 120 returning exhibitors, including 303 Gallery (New York), Sean Kelly (New York, Taipei), Victoria Miro (London, Venice), Galerie Templon (Paris, Brussels), and Zeno X Gallery (Antwerp). In addition, 30 exhibitors will debut at the fair and 28 will re-join, among them Brooke Alexander (New York), Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin), Carbon 12 (Dubai), Carpenters Workshop Gallery (New York, London, Paris, San Francisco), Chambers Fine Art (New York), Gagosian (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Le Bourget, Basel, Athens, Geneva, Hong Kong), Garth Greenan Gallery (New York), Pippy Houldsworth Gallery (London), Kasmin (New York), Simon Lee Gallery (London, New York, Hong Kong), Barbara Mathes Gallery (New York), Night Gallery (Los Angeles), and Richard Saltoun (London).

Nicole Berry, Executive Director of The Armory Show, remarks: “With more than a quarter century of tradition in Manhattan, The Armory Show is New York’s most storied art fair, and an essential opportunity for international and national galleries to connect with a key North American audience of collectors, curators, and institutions. We have created a comprehensive platform for serious and ambitious presentations by galleries of all sizes, reaches, and years of experience—from global powerhouses to regional leaders and those just beginning to gain recognition. We are proud that many galleries who started at The Armory Show have gone on to achieve incredible success in the industry.”

The Essential New York Art Fair

The 2020 edition will feature many notable thematic and solo-artist presentations within Galleries, the fair’s core section. Presentation highlights include:

At Simon Lee Gallery (London, New York, Hong Kong), an exploration of painting’s two-dimensionality, providing exceptional interpretations of medium and material by artists such as Donna Huanca, Claudio Parmiggiani, and Toby Ziegler
An installation of collages by the late multi-hyphenate artist Jonas Mekas, presented by APALAZZOGALLERY (Brescia)
A survey of sculptures and drawings by Mel Kendrick at David Nolan Gallery (New York)
A presentation of works by or inspired by the pioneering multimedia artist Hannah Wilke at Ronald Feldman Gallery (New York)
At Jeffrey Deitch (New York, Los Angeles), an interactive installation comprising new paintings and sculptures by Austin Lee

A Place for Discovery

Highlighting the fair’s role as an important platform for bringing emerging galleries to the forefront, Presents welcomes nine first-time exhibitors this year. Highlights from the Presents section include:

At Carbon 12 (Dubai), Philip Mueller’s skillful paintings that allude to ancient mythology and his contemporary renditions on historical timelines, connecting fiction to reality
A pairing of new and recent work by Kay Hofmann and Jennie C. Jones—two artists of different generations who have each made important contributions to the histories of figuration, Minimalism, and abstraction—at Patron (Chicago)
A solo presentation of newly made paintings by Australian-Malaysian artist Abdul Abdullah at Yavuz Gallery (Singapore)
At Antoine Levi (Paris), a dual-artist presentation of Francesco Gennari and Evan Gilbert, two artists of different generations whose practices engage with the duality of the self and self-representation
A multimedia, performative presentation by Mella Jaarsma and Jompet Kuswidananto at Baik + Khneysser (Los Angeles), exploring the relationship between the personal and the body politic

The Gramercy International Prize recipient is Kai Matsumiya (New York), which will stage a solo presentation of sculptural works by Pedro Wirz. Once again, the esteemed jury included Stefano Basilico, Collector and Advisor; Clarissa Dalrymple, Independent Curator; Nicole Klagsbrun, Owner and Founder, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery; Andrea Rosen, Owner and Founder, Andrea Rosen Gallery; and Lisa Spellman, Owner and Founder, 303 Gallery.

Expanded Curatorial Program

The 2020 edition will feature an expanded curatorial program, and for the first time in the fair’s history, an entire pier will be devoted to curator-led initiatives—with Pier 90 encompassing Perspectives, the Focus section, and a selection of Platform projects.

Perspectives, the newest exhibitor section, will be dedicated to historical material viewed through a contemporary lens, bringing together both established and emerging exhibitors. Curated in its inaugural year by Nora Burnett Abrams (Mark G. Falcone Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver), Perspectives: Past as Present will demonstrate a range of projects evocative of the fair’s early years, when exhibitors offered daring, gritty, and even whimsical presentations. Highlights include:

A survey of works by Jana Vander Lee at Inman Gallery (Houston), celebrating the acclaimed fiber artist’s instrumental role in bringing the medium into the mainstream fine art field in the 1970s and 1980s
Works by Joseph Cornell, Philip Guston, Robert Indiana, and Giulio Paolini at Barbara Mathes Gallery (New York), presenting classicism—in its ruptured form—as a vital source for contemporary artists
A five-decade survey of work by Pierre Soulages at ARCHEUS / POST-MODERN (London)
At Susan Sheehan Gallery (New York), a presentation of works by Vija Celmins, Jasper Johns, Brice Marden, and Ed Ruscha that were produced by female-led print studios in the mid-1980s, highlighting the groundbreaking legacy of female printmakers

A presentation of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson at ACA Galleries (New York), exploring early works from the artist’s oeuvre that merged deeply personal and universally shared experiences of community and history

Focus, organized by Jamillah James (Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), will consider the ways in which artists construct a version of reality or self where the boundaries between fact and fiction are indistinct. Taken as a whole, Focus: Another time, another place is an open-ended proposition that asks how history functions when the present is constantly accelerating, and how much agency individuals or communities have in narrating their experiences and making new worlds. Highlights include:

A unique pairing of work by Cynthia Daignault and David Korty at Night Gallery (Los Angeles), where both artists reinvigorate a breadth of art historical movements by placing them in conversation with contemporary issues such as climate change and rapid advancements in technology
At Jack Bell (London), a presentation of works by Lavar Munroe, who draws on the memory of crude graffiti murals from his community in Nassau, Bahamas, to create vivid, energetic images and portraits that confront systems of oppression in contemporary society

At The Pit (Los Angeles), reflections on the histories and cultures of Mesoamerica and Latin America by Tamara Gonzales, who merges her self-created archetypes with traditional Peruvian Shipibo patterns to create modern totems in search of a new purpose
At Spinello Projects (Miami), an installation by Agustina Woodgate focused on the contemporary equation of time and money, depicting current economic measures of labor and value as a process of disintegration

Platform, a curated section offering artists the opportunity to realize large-scale installations and site-specific work, is organized by Anne Ellegood (Executive Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles). Large-scale projects will address how techniques of satire and caricature have been used historically in art and literature as sharp tools of social critique. The full list of participating artists and galleries will be announced in early 2020.

Armory Arts Week

As the marquee event during Armory Arts Week, The Armory Show, with its extensive VIP Program, will unfold during a week of museum and gallery openings city-wide—reaffirming the position of Armory Arts Week as New York’s most important arts week and a destination for both regional and international collectors, artists, and museum leaders.

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2020 EXHIBITOR LIST

GALLERIES

PERSPECTIVES

PRESENTS

FOCUS

* indicates first time exhibitor

NOTES TO EDITORS

The Armory Show
The Armory Show is New York City’s essential art fair, and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art. Staged on Manhattan’s Piers 90 and 94, The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions, and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the international art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery, and patronage in the visual arts.

Fair Dates
VIP Preview Day (by invitation only)
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Public Days
Thursday, March 5–Sunday, March 8, 2020

Les Ateliers Courbet and Thirlwall Design unveil Please Be Seated, a Jacques Tati-inspired Installation Debuting at Design Miami 2019

November 27, 2019

Paris exhibition of Jacques Tati's Villa Arpel from the movie set of Mon Oncle presented by Domeau & Pérès and Les Films de Mon Oncle (2009) © Benoît Fougeirol — Paris exhibition of Jacques Tati's Villa Arpel from the movie set of *Mon Oncle* presented by Domeau & Pérès and Les Films de Mon Oncle (2009) © Benoît Fougeirol

November 26, 2019 (Miami Beach) – Les Ateliers Courbet and Thirlwall Design present Please Be Seated, a capsule installation offering a glimpse at French filmmaker Jacques Tati’s iconic designs in his 1958 film Mon Oncle (My Uncle) – one of the director’s most acclaimed satires on modern design, lifestyle and consumerism. Scheduled in conjunction with the release of Taschen's Jacques Tati: The Complete Work, the installation will debut at Design Miami in December 2019 and be presented subsequently at the New York gallery from January–March 2020. With Please Be Seated, Les Ateliers Courbet introduces to the United States the sole edition of Tati designs ever made, produced by esteemed design studio Domeau & Pérès in collaboration with Jacques Tati’s Estate “Les Films de Mon Oncle.”

The French master craftsmen and design publishers Domeau & Pérès pay homage to Tati’s visionary designs and whims with a limited edition of three visually appealing and completely impractical seats. The “Tati Collection” has been exhibited in European museums and institutions since its 2007 unveiling in Paris with the actual Villa Arpel from the Mon Oncle movie set. The restored Villa was pulled from the archives for the first time since 1958. The collection was also included in the French Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. Today, the three seats belong to important public and private collections including that of Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

In Mon Oncle, Tati shares his questioning of and satirical perspective on modernism and modern design through the misadventures of his iconic character, the candid and clumsy Monsieur Hulot. Certainly visionary at the time, Tati’s work and ideas feel as relevant today as they were in Mr. Hulot’s 1950s.

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Design Miami 2019
1900 Meridian Street
Between 18th & 19th Streets
Miami Beach USA

Preview Day
By Invitation Only
Tuesday, December 4
Collectors Preview | 12–5pm
Opening Night Preview | 5–7pm

Vernissage
Wednesday, December 5 | 10am–12pm

About Les Ateliers Courbet

Established in 2013, New York-based design gallery LES ATELIERS COURBET presents a curation program focused on the ongoing craftsmanship and design legacies of the centuries-old manufacturers and contemporary artisans it represents. The gallery’s exhibitions along with its collections of furniture and decorative arts objects, highlight the ongoing dialogues and collaborations between master craftsmen and artists around the world.

While anchored in cultural heritage, Courbet’s selection includes both sought-after works culled from the archives and contemporary pieces.

Since its opening, Les Ateliers Courbet works closely with each studio to place and donate pieces to museums and institutions such as the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, The Philip Johnson Glass House, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.

While growing its gallery program with institutional collaborations, exhibitions and publications, Les Ateliers Courbet aims to further support its portfolio of master craftsmen and contribute to the ongoing legacy they carry on, through the Editions Courbet – a collection of limited edition pieces created by guest artists, designers, luminaries and handcrafted by Les Ateliers Courbet’s master craftsmen. Its early collaborations have included rug editions by Frank Gehry, Vladimir Kagan and Nepalese weavers, as well as a silverwork edition by Wiener Silber Manufactur and Dutch designer Aldo Bakker.

Les Ateliers Courbet
134 Tenth Avenue, New York 10011
https://www.ateliercourbet.com/

About Thirlwall Design

THIRLWALL is an interior architecture and design practice with offices in Miami and New York and a wide scope of global projects both residential and commercial.

Led by creative director James J. Wall, the firm has garnered recognition from an international clientele over seventeen years for its astute design approach and concepts and its attention to materials and building processes. The team has developed a rich portfolio of interior projects each of which combines idiosyncratic vernacular with clean materiality.

Founder James J. Wall, has honed an acute eye, a layered aesthetic and multicultural knowledge throughout the various countries in which he grew up, studied and lived. After studying painting and sculpture at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris for three years, Wall graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design Dept of Architect and Design, before moving to Copenhagen where he completed his education at post-graduate program of the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen.

About Domeau & Pérès

Both graduates of France’s legendary institution Les Compagnons du Devoir, master craftsmen Bruno Domeau and Philippe Pérès joined forces in the 1990’s to open the now esteemed atelier Domeau & Pérès in Paris. The atelier has garnered worldwide recognition for the acute design perspective and combined craftsmanship expertise of the two masters – both recipients of France’s honoring title of Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres.

A long-kept-secret destination for their meticulous work and comprehensive expertise, Domeau & Pérès have collaborated with countless luminaries such as Marc Newson, Andrée Putman, Pharrel Williams, and Colette in Paris. The studio works on special commissions for clients including Falcon Jet, Hermès, LVMH, Krug, Karl Lagerfeld, Dior, Berluti, the Bridge Club in Bridgehampton, and the Royal Monceau in Paris amongst others.

With guest artists including Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Martin Szekely, Christophe Pillet, Matali Crasset, Pablo Reinoso, and Eric Jourdan, Domeau & Pérès have grown a significant signature collection that belongs to the permanent collection of Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld among others.

CHYBIK + KRISTOF ARCHITECTS Complete House of Wine in a Reconverted Historical Building

November 25, 2019

Reframing traditional notions on renovation by combining two distinct approaches to restoration, the House of Wine acts as a witness to the region’s multifaceted architectural history.

House of Wine (2019), Znojmo, Czech Republic. Designed by CHYBIK + KRISTOF. Photo credit: Laurian Ghinitoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF — *House of Wine* (2019), Znojmo, Czech Republic. Designed by CHYBIK + KRISTOF. Photo credit: Laurian Ghinitoiu. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF

November 25, 2019 (Czech Republic) – CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects & Urban Designers have announced the completion of the House of Wine, a wine bar and tasting room located in Znojmo, in the heart of the Moravian region. Set in a converted 19th-century brewery and its adjacent technical space added to the structure in the 1970s, the project overlooks a 9th-century chapel and neighboring Gothic church – reflecting the town’s many architectural layers and histories. Merging two spaces with distinct heritages and adopting individual approaches – and understandings – of renovation for each, the architects respond to the respective building’s structural past and function, all the while rethinking conventional notions on restoration.

Restored – and preserved – to retain its original essence, the 19th-century brewery is treated as a heritage site. Rather than architectural, the renovation is functional. The classical rectangular edifice is redefined as a historical exhibition space and wine bar, inviting visitors to delve into the rich history of the Moravian wine culture.

Conversely, preserving only the outer structure of the former technical hall to house an entirely new internal space, the House of Wine reconsiders it as a wide adjustable and void volume. A playful arrangement of organic volumes set on various planes divide this ‘white cube’ into individual spaces, thereby reflecting the scale and atmosphere of traditional wine cellars of the region through several smaller interconnected rooms. This newly-conceived wine bar redefines both the hall’s initial architecture and its function.

Through a complex set of asymmetrical windows, distributed to reflect the division of the interior space into various rooms, the former technical hall opens up to the surrounding views – the neighboring churches, the town, the river valley. Revealing exterior views to a building that has seldom acknowledged them, the windows invite visitors to engage in a dialogue with the region and its landscape – while anchoring this seemingly anachronistic structure as part of the architectural treasures of the town. Encouraging this interaction and reflecting this historical collage, the tone of the façade is a combination of the neighboring buildings’ distinct colors, thereby affirming a sense of architectural and historical belonging.

The House of Wine echoes the original buildings and the town’s history of transformation, while acting as a reminder of the complex interaction between the sociopolitical structures that have marked its architecture. Specifically, the architects draw attention to the technical hall as the expression of the cynicism of the Communist regime – which initially erected this architecturally bare structure at the heart of a historically rich city.

House of Wine (2019), Znojmo, Czech Republic. Designed by CHYBIK + KRISTOF. Photo credit: Alexandra Timpau. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF — *House of Wine* (2019), Znojmo, Czech Republic. Designed by CHYBIK + KRISTOF. Photo credit: Alexandra Timpau. Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF

Discussing the project, founding architect Ondřej Chybík explains, “The House of Wine challenges traditional notions of restoration of historical buildings. The presence of two distinct structures, each with its own history and original function, inspired us to adopt likewise distinct approaches to renovation. On the one hand, we adhere to a rather orthodox restoration, based on preservation; on the other hand, we embrace a more experimental – and unusual – approach which fully rethinks the initial structure. In doing so, we immerse ourselves in the town’s heritage and landscape, while establishing the House of Wine as a part, a reconciliation and a continuation of its architectural history.”

Concurrently, CHYBIK + KRISTOF are in the process of completing the Lahofer Winery, nestled in the nearby Moravian vineyards of Dobsice. Veering away from any interference with the landscape, the structure echoes the natural slopes of the surrounding terrain, while a colonnade of arches aligns with the rhythm of the vine rows – creating perfect visual symmetry with nature. Featuring an interconnected visitor center, winemaking facility and tasting room, and amphitheater hosting public cultural events, the winery is set to open in the Spring of 2020.

Project Team: Ondřej Chybik, Michal Krištof, Ondřej Mundl, Luděk Šimoník, Martin Holý, Roman Koplík, Lenka Vořechovská, Vratislav Zika, Hanka AlGibury, Petr Novák

NOTES TO EDITORS

About CHYBIK + KRISTOF
CHYBIK + KRISTOF is an architecture and urban design practice founded in 2010 by Ondřej Chybík and Michal Krištof. Operating with 50+ international team members and offices in Prague, Brno and Bratislava, the practice aims at creating bridges between private and public space, transcending generations and societal spheres. Taking into account local histories and environmental specificities, the studio works on a wide array of projects, ranging from urban developments to public and residential buildings. Recent projects include: Gallery of Furniture (Czech Republic), the Czech Pavilion at Expo 2015 (Milan, Italy) and Lahofer Winery (Czech Republic). The studio has been awarded a number of prizes, including the 2019 Vanguard Award from Architectural Record.

T SAKHI Architects Presents WAL(L)TZ: a New Interactive Wall Installation Addressing Social Barriers in Today's Climate

October 30, 2019

The Beirut and Milan-based architecture and design studio unveils the Lebanese Pavilion for this year’s edition of Abwab – Dubai Design Week’s annual curated platform (11—16 November 2019).

WAL(L)TZ, by T SAKHI Architects. Lebanese Pavilion, Abwab. Dubai Design Week 2019. Photograph by Tessa Sakhi © T SAKHI Architects — *WAL(L)TZ,* *by T SAKHI Architects.* Lebanese Pavilion, Abwab. Dubai Design Week 2019. Photograph by Tessa Sakhi © T SAKHI Architects

November 13, 2019 (Dubai) – Multidisciplinary architecture and design studio T SAKHI Architects unveils WAL(L)TZ, an interactive installation exploring the concept of the wall as a physical and psychological construct, addressing Lebanon’s socio-political climate in recent years. Selected to represent Lebanon as one of this fifth edition’s three national pavilions, the curated project is presented as part of Dubai Design Week’s special project space Abwab, from 11—16 November 2019.

Prompted to reflect on this year’s theme, “Ways of Learning,” and on the way information is shared in their culture, sisters and cofounders Tessa and Tara Sakhi transform the wall into an activator for awareness and sociability. WAL(L)TZ echoes a Lebanese society congested with physical walls, seeded throughout its urban infrastructure and public spaces. Moving beyond its materiality, the project also delves into the wall’s psychological and emotional dimension.

From geographical borders to vestiges of wars and expressions of socio-political and economic apartheid, walls have been used throughout history as tools to control and segregate communities, cities – and countries. Nevertheless, the wall remains the inescapable and main element in architectural endeavours – a precedent which WAL(L)TZ seeks to question.

The pavilion consists of a 15-meter linear wall – one that is overwhelmingly present, yet porous. Seeking to overcome the perception of the rigid structure as a barrier, WAL(L)TZ is crafted in recycled foam, throughout which cracks, “loopholes” and other happenings are playfully interspersed, thereby encouraging audiences to connect and interact through – and in spite of – the wall. The visitor, turned performer, finds himself taking part in a choreographed protest, a reinterpreted “waltz” – one that reflects the voices rising against oppression in Lebanon – and globally – today.

Building on the studio’s socio-cultural engagement to place human interaction at the core of their practice, T SAKHI’s WAL(L)TZ re-appropriates the physical wall and rethinks visitors’ conception and experience of it. Acting as both a mirror and a window onto society, it encourages visitors to see and reach beyond the “wall” – thereby echoing Lebanon’s longstanding tenacity in the face of adversity.

Discussing the project, architects Tessa and Tara Sakhi explain, “WAL(L)TZ represents the act of resilience in overcoming any obstacle and transforming it for constructive change. We see the project as a platform for bodies to reconnect and interact with each other – finally reuniting them.”

In Holidays in the Sun and Lost in Transition, two experimental urban interventions unveiled in Beirut in June 2019, T SAKHI reinterpreted security barriers found throughout the city as stools and spaces for greenery – inviting the local community and visitors to engage in public space, while – and already at the time – pointing to the abundance of barriers blighting Lebanon’s visual landscape.

An interactive performance by choreographer and dancer Jadd Tank will be held on November 13, further activating the wall and blurring the line between visitor and performer. Evoking Lebanese citizens’ dual feelings towards these obstacles and the intense relationship between the bodies and the wall, the performance will be captured by cinematographer and director Dei Al Ayoubi and translated into a short-film – a visual and abstract ode to the people of Lebanon.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Dubai Design Week Public Days
11—15 November 2019 | 10AM – 10PM
16 November 2019 | 10AM – 5PM
Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Additional events
Tuesday, November 12 | 4—5.15PM | Panel Discussion: “The Question is What is the Question?” with Tara and Tessa Sakhi (T SAKHI Architects); Brendan McGetrick (Creative Director, Museum of the Future); Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto (ibda design); moderated by Shumon Basar (Commissioner, Global Art Forum) | d3, Main Stage, Building 7, Atrium
Wednesday, November 13 | 12—2PM | Workshop by T SAKHI Architects in partnership with the University of Sharjah, College of Fine Arts and Design | University of Sharjah, College of Fine Arts and Design
Wednesday, November 13 | 4.30—5.30PM | Performance by Jadd Tank | d3, Abwab, Lebanese Pavilion

About T SAKHI
Based in Milan and Beirut, T SAKHI is a hybrid multidisciplinary architecture and design studio cofounded in 2016 by Lebanese-Polish sisters Tessa and Tara Sakhi. Questioning contemporary understandings of identity, memory and living, T SAKHI draws from the emotional and psychological experience of space, often through sensorial synergies. Committed to placing human interaction at the core of its practice, the studio designs both permanent and ephemeral social structures.
From modern residences integrating communal needs to readapted urban security barriers as sites of rest and greenery, T SAKHI’s diverse projects are both playful and interactive. They range from architecture, product design, art objects, installations, scenography and most recently, films and regularly involve collaborations with creatives and craftsmen from all over the world in an aspiration for exchange and dialogue.

About Dubai Design Week
Dubai Design Week is the largest creative festival in the Middle East. The six-day programme covers a range of design disciplines including architecture, product design, interiors, multimedia and graphic design, with the majority of events free to attend and accessible for both industry and the general public.
Key components of Dubai Design Week include the region’s leading design fair, Downtown Design; the Global Grad Show; and Abwab, the curated and interactive project containing original design from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia; alongside an extensive talks and workshop programme.

Save the Date | The Armory Show | New York, 5–8 March 2020

October 14, 2019

SAVE THE DATE | THE ARMORY SHOW | NEW YORK, 5–8 MARCH 2020

The Armory Show, New York’s premier contemporary and modern art fair, will take place March 5–8, 2020. Led by Executive Director Nicole Berry, the upcoming edition, which marks the fair’s 26th year, will once again be staged in the heart of Manhattan at Piers 90 and 94. The 2020 edition will build upon the success of the 2019 fair with an expanded curatorial program and a more integrated presentation of modern and contemporary artwork. New developments include the debut of a third curated exhibitor section, Perspectives, replacing the Insights section and dedicated to historical material viewed through a contemporary lens. In addition, for the first time in the fair’s history, an entire pier will be devoted to curator-led initiatives, with Pier 90 encompassing Perspectives, the Focus section, and a selection of Platform projects.

Nora Burnett Abrams, Mark G. Falcone Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, will curate the inaugural Perspectives section, featuring thought-provoking historical presentations examined through a contemporary theme. Anne Ellegood, Executive Director, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles will curate the Platform section offering artists the opportunity to realize large-scale installations and performances staged across both piers. Jamillah James, Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, will curate the critically acclaimed Focus section, showcasing today’s most relevant and compelling artworks through solo- and dual-artist presentations. Complementing these exhibitor sections, José Carlos Diaz, Chief Curator, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, will chair the third annual edition of the Curatorial Leadership Summit, convening an international roster of curators for a daylong, closed-door symposium addressing urgent topics in the curatorial field.

Fair Dates

VIP Preview Day (by invitation only)

Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Public Days

Thursday, March 5 – Sunday, March 8, 2020

Sunday Art Fair London Celebrates 10th Anniversary: Highlights for the 2019 Edition

September 25, 2019

3–6 October 2019

The fair welcomes 30 galleries from over 20 international cities, presenting works by young and emerging international artists in its 14,000-square-foot London space.

VIP + Press Preview: Thursday, October 3 | 12–6 PM | Free Entry
Ambika P3, University of Westminster
33 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS

Chiara Fumai, Dogaresso Elisabetta Querini, Zalumma Agra, Dope Head, Annie Jones, Harry Houdni and Eusapia Palladino read Valerie Solanas, 2013. Photography, C-type print, 6.8 x 120 cm. Courtesy of Galería Rosa Santos (Valencia) — Chiara Fumai, *Dogaresso Elisabetta Querini, Zalumma Agra, Dope Head, Annie Jones, Harry Houdni and Eusapia Palladino read Valerie Solanas,* 2013. Photography, C-type print, 6.8 x 120 cm. Courtesy of Galería Rosa Santos (Valencia)

Sunday Art Fair, London’s international contemporary art fair for young galleries and artists, returns from 3–6 October, 2019 with a selection of 30 galleries from over 20 cities. Marking its 10th anniversary, the fair will affirm its engagement and support of newly established galleries and emerging artists. The selected exhibitors, 16 of which will be participating for the first time, will take over the 14,000-square-foot concrete space of Ambika P3, located in the University of Westminster’s School of Engineering through a curated presentation of solo projects and group shows.

Building on a strong international contingent, the 2019 edition will feature returning and first-time participants from over 10 countries, including Spanish galleries: Bombon Projects (Barcelona) and Rosa Santos (Valencia); Italian exhibitors Renata Fabbri and RIBOT (Milan); Paris-based Galerie Derouillon and PACT; Sperling (Munich) and CHOI&LAGER Gallery (Cologne) from Germany; as well as a significant US representation with False Flag (New York), The Hole (New York), and Over the Influence (Los Angeles).

The fair will also assert its commitment to supporting the local emerging art scene with the participation of UK galleries Annka Kultys Gallery (London), Roman Road (London) and Patricia Fleming (Glasgow), among others.

For the 10th anniversary edition, Sunday affirms its role as a platform for artistic experimentation, thereby encouraging the discovery and promotion of new forms of art:

1) Rethinking the notion of the booth, galleries and artists will explore the limits of their respective space. Highlights include:

Annka Kultys Gallery (London)’s “In-Lightment”, a free-standing booth presenting works by Stine Deja, Márton Nemes, Aaron Scheer and Anne Vieux
Artists Anna Dot and Bernat Daviu’s sloped floor for Bombon Projects (Barcelona), affirming the performative aspect of their practices
Jonathan Chapline’s grid-patterned walls at The Hole (New York), reflecting the environment used by the artist to generate the 3-D imagery of his works

2) Several exhibitors will devote their booths to solo presentations. Notable proposals include:

Femke Dekkers’s “perspective corrections” at Galerie Bart (Amsterdam)
Dennis Buck’s reflections on artist identity and authenticity at Roman Road (London)
Building on her work for the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, Chiara Fumai will address notions of media misrepresentation in her proposal for Rosa Santos (Valencia)

3) Showcasing works in a range of mediums, from installations and microarchitecture to sculpture, embroidery and ceramics to digital and video art, presentations will attest to galleries’ and Sunday’s shared engagement to addressing current sociocultural and political themes, including:

Fragment Gallery (Moscow), presenting works by Pacifico Silano, will approach physical and emotional voids seen through the lens of HIV/AIDS within the LGBTQ community
Danny Ferrell’s exploration of fantasies and fears of the “Other” through depictions of everyday queer male at PACT (Paris)
Sarah Margnetti’s focus on the fragmentation and commodification of the body at Stems Gallery (Brussels, Luxembourg)

Jonathan Chapline, Pool House (Dyptich), 2019. Acrylic, flashe on panel, 119 x 152 cm and 89 x 122 cm. Courtesy of The Hole (New York) — Jonathan Chapline, *Pool House (Dyptich),* 2019. Acrylic, flashe on panel, 119 x 152 cm and 89 x 122 cm. Courtesy of The Hole (New York)

This year, Sunday Art Fair will partner with the Glasgow International (GI) Festival 2020, Scotland’s largest festival for contemporary art, for a special exhibition curated by its director Richard Parry. An alternative to the yearly Editions booths, which previously invited UK regional institutions to present dedicated projects, this exhibition will address the theme of “distraction”, a response to the GI’s 2020 festival theme around “attention.” A selection of artists from past and present editions of the festival will consider the seemingly constant sources of distraction, which generate both voluntary and involuntary acts and states of mind. Presented artists include: Laura Aldridge, Michael Fullerton, Andy Holden, France Lise McGurn, Ana Mazzei, Carol Rhodes, David Shrigley, Andrew Sim, Georgina Starr, Tony Swain, Hayley Tompkins, Urara Tsuchiya and Bedwyr Williams. The exhibition will also feature newly made unique works for sale, specifically for the fair.

Young Collectors League, a New York-based initiative founded to drive visibility and sales to emerging and mid-tier galleries, will be offering free advising tours to attendees to assist with acquisitions throughout the course of the fair.

2019 GALLERIES & INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS

2019 Partners
Glasgow International Festival 2020 | Glasgow
Young Collectors League | New York
Artsy | Official Online Partner

NOTES TO EDITORS:

VIP + Press Preview (by invitation only)
Thursday, October 3 | 12–6 PM

Public Days
Thursday, October 3 | 6–9 PM
Friday, October 4 & Saturday, October 5 | 12–8 PM
Sunday, October 6 | 12–6 PM

Free and open to the public.

About Sunday Art Fair

Sunday Art Fair was launched in 2010 by galleries Tulips and Roses (Brussels, Vilnius), Croy Nielsen (Vienna) and Limoncello (London) and is currently directed by curator and writer Thom O’Nions who has been involved with the fair since 2015. Over the past ten years, the fair has established itself as the leading London contemporary art fair committed to supporting young galleries and artists at early stages in their career. Intentionally renewing its participating galleries each year, Sunday Art Fair is committed to presenting them with an opportunity to introduce global collectors to their artists.

Steering away from the traditional booth structure to adopt an open-plan layout, Sunday invites galleries and artists to rethink and appropriate the space, encouraging the dialogue between visitors, gallerists and artists. Free and open to the public, the fair aims to make contemporary art accessible to all, attracting younger audiences and aspiring collectors.

Many significant artists have shown at the fair at turning points in their development, including Laura Aldridge, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Anne Imhof, Christian Jankowski and Amy Yao, among many others.

About Ambika P3

Ambika P3 is a 14,000-square-foot space beneath Baker Street in London. It was developed from the vast former concrete construction hall for the University of Westminster’s School of Engineering. Built in the 1960s, the site existed as a former concrete testing bunker where both the Channel Tunnel and sections of the British motorway were tested.

Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin announces programme and highlights for the 2019 edition

September 16, 2019

Friends with Books features over 200 artists and publishers, 12 public programmes and 6 art installations, including new commissions.

September 21–22, 2019

Preview: Friday, September 20, 6–8 PM

Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin | Free entry

Alias art publications, 2019 ; courtesy Friends with Books, Berlin.

September 6, 2019 (Berlin) – Opening on September 20, Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Europe’s leading art book fair committed to the distribution and promotion of artists’ books and associated mediums, launches its sixth edition in the iconic Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. From September 20–22, 2019, over 200 international exhibitors, ranging from artists to art publishers, will present their publications, reflecting the diversity of today’s art publishing. Free and open to the public, the fair explores all facettes of contemporary art publishing through an engaging programme of lectures, panel discussions, book presentations, performances and art installations, bringing understanding to the discipline and celebrating its resurgence in today’s digital climate.

Exhibitors at Friends with Books will feature contemporary art publications including artists’ books, artist zines, digital publications, limited editions, magazines, conceptual publications, photography publications, textual works and artists’ writings, art theory and criticism, as well as books printed spontaneously on location. Many of these art publications are not widely available or distributed, and may be self-published by artists or in small editions.

Friends with Books 2019 Highlights

For its sixth edition, Friends With Books welcomes for the first time ARTPHILEIN EDITIONS, Lugano; Little Steidl, Göttingen; Ann Noël, Berlin; among others.

Programmes include conversations and presentations with artists such as Erik Göngrich, Marlena Kudlicka, Nanne Meyer, Tamami Iinuma, Caio Reisewitz, and Florian Wüst.

Performances include the artist collective Black Palm and artists Mette Edvardsen, Jeroen Peeters and Lara Salmon.

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The Friends with Books Blog interview features artist Elisabeth Tonnard in conversation with art critic Agnieszka Gratza.

German artist Anne Schwalbe created the annual Friends with Books Artist Poster Edition, titled Wasser, 2019, made from recent photographs of grass taken in Japan. Observing the lines and patterns in nature, Schwalbe photographs her surroundings intuitively. With no reference to location or other narrative aspects, she departs from landscapes into the abstract, thereby allowing her work to become the lines of a poem. Schwalbe is a regular columnist for Zeit Magazin.

The 2019 edition will host a series of curated temporary Art Installations in dialogue with artists’ books and art publications and printed ephemera including:

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Japanese artist Tamami Iinuma’s Piece of colonne, Fragment of waves, 2018-19, is an interactive installation with 36 unique artist books of photographs where abstract images appear and disappear meditatively as the pages are turned, recalling the continuously ebbing and flowing of waves or the ‘breath of architecture’.

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Dutch artist Mathilde ter Heijne’s Woman To Go is an ongoing project and archive, featured as an installation of postcard racks holding free postcards with the portrait and biography of an unknown woman who was influential or extraordinary in her time.

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German artist Kathrin Köster’s installation is comprised of two sculptural works, The hammy stage dive, 2018, and newly commissioned legerdemain, 2019, in connection with her new artist book, ex plica, 2019. Constructed with multi-layered fabric and paper upon supporting structures, her works explore how these materials express their own sense of theatricality and movement.

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Polish artist Marlena Kudlicka’s installation includes a sculpture and work on paper, both titled unprotected 0 fig. 120°, 2015. Reflecting her interest in Constructivism, Kudlicka focuses on semantic and spatial relations between function, language, structure, contour, shape, and system. A new limited edition commissioned poster velvet mind marble thoughts, 2019, is available for free to the public.

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Icelandic artist Egil Sæbjörnsson’s Ugh & Boogar’s Book Corner, 2019 is a newly commissioned installation where children and parents create stories together. The trolls, Ugh and Boogar, encourage fantasy and invention. Sæbjörnsson has created two artist’s books about the trolls’ adventures, When Egill met the Trolls and took them to Venice, 2017, and The Trolls in Hellsinki, 2019.

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Czech artist Rudolf Samohejl’s ‘sculptural situation’ features two new works, Life Table, 2019, a sculpture and working ping-pong table, and Rib Cage, 2019. Intended to be shown in public space, his work is activated through unpredictability in an effort to disrupt our everyday habits. Also on view is his newly commissioned artist book Plane Dreams, 2019, a graphic novel.

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The Alias reading area features books published by Alias, an independent editorial project based in Mexico City established by Mexican artist Damián Ortega. Alias translates and publishes texts previously not available in Spanish that it considers to be valuable contemporary art references.

Special Thanks: Udo Kittelmann, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Dr. Gabriele Knapstein, Dr. Nina Schallenberg, Fiona Geuss, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; Gaby Horn, KW Institute for Contemporary Art; Barbara Wien; Dr. Michael Lailach, Kunstbibliothek Berlin; Claus Due, Studio Claus Due; Virginia Illner, Medialis Druck.

Support: Friends with Books is generously supported in part by Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Sunday Art Fair Celebrates 10th Anniversary

September 13, 2019

Sunday Art Fair 2017, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London. Photo by Damian Griffiths. Courtesy of Sunday Art Fair.

Sunday Art Fair, London’s international contemporary art fair for young galleries and artists, returns from 3–6 October, 2019 with a selection of 30 galleries from over 20 cities. Marking its 10th anniversary, the fair will affirm its engagement and support of newly established galleries and emerging artists. The selected galleries, 16 of which will be participating for the first time, will take over the 14,000-square-foot concrete space of Ambika P3, located in the University of Westminster’s School of Engineering, through a curated presentation of solo projects and group shows.

Sunday Art Fair was launched in 2010 by galleries Tulips and Roses (Brussels, Vilnius), Croy Nielsen (Vienna) and Limoncello (London). Over the past ten years, the fair has established itself as the leading London contemporary art fair committed to supporting young galleries and artists at early stages in their career. Intentionally renewing its participating galleries each year, Sunday Art Fair is committed to presenting them with an opportunity to introduce global collectors to their artists. Sunday has acted – and still acts today – as a platform for artistic experimentation, thereby encouraging the discovery and promotion of new forms of art.

This year, Sunday will be partnering up with the Glasgow International (GI) Festival 2020, Scotland’s largest festival for contemporary art, for a special exhibition curated by its director Richard Parry. An alternative to the yearly Editions booths, which previously invited UK regional institutions to present dedicated projects, this exhibition will address the theme of “distraction”, a response to the GI’s 2020 festival theme around “attention.” The exhibition will feature unique works for sale by a selection of artists from past and previous editions of the festival.

A New York-based initiative founded to drive visibility and sales to emerging and mid-tier galleries, the Young Collectors League will be offering free advising tours to attendees to assist with acquisitions throughout the course of the fair.

2019 GALLERIES & INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS

2019 Partners
Glasgow International Festival 2020 | Glasgow
Young Collectors League | New York
Artsy | Official Online Partner

NOTES TO EDITORS:

VIP + Press Preview (by invitation only)
Thursday, October 3 | 12–6 PM

Public Days
Thursday, October 3 | 6–9 PM
Friday, October 4 & Saturday, October 5 | 12–8 PM
Sunday, October 6 | 12–6 PM

Free and open to the public.

Location
Ambika P3
University of Westminster
33 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS

About Sunday Art Fair

Sunday Art Fair was founded in 2010 by the galleries Tulips and Roses, Croy Nielsen and Limoncello and is currently directed by curator and writer Thom O’Nions who has been involved with the fair since 2015. The fair is engaged in the promotion of emerging art by supporting both newly established galleries and artists at early stages in their career. Many significant artists have shown at the fair at turning points in their development, including Laura Aldridge, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Anne Imhof, Christian Jankowski and Amy Yao, among many others.

About Ambika P3

J. HILL’s Standard Unveils “Hand Drawn Glass” Collection with Artist Nigel Peake at Les Ateliers Courbet, New York

September 9, 2019

Image of the Nigel Peake collection, Hand Drawn Glass. Photo by Doreen Kilfeather. Courtesy of J. HILL's Standard. — Image of the Nigel Peake collection, *Hand Drawn Glass*. Photo by Doreen Kilfeather. Courtesy of J. HILL's Standard.

Award-winning crystal glass manufacturer J. HILL’s Standard is pleased to announce they will unveil their third collection of tabletop crystal glassware at Les Ateliers Courbet in New York City, on view from September 17 – October 17, 2019. The series “Hand Drawn Glass,” designed and hand drawn by Irish illustrator Nigel Peake, represents a departure from the traditional rigid cut patterns of crystal glass, exploring an organic approach to form and design. The pieces feature clean, elemental shapes, and cuts that reveal the imprint of the hand.

Known for his paintings and drawings of built and unbuilt landscapes – interpreted in his books, textiles, porcelain and glass, Peake has created a series of three tumblers of various sizes: a carafe, a decanter and bowl. A spontaneous cutting motion captures the fleeting movement of the drawing hand.

The new collection offers an editioned series (four available patterns to choose from) and an open edition (seven available patterns to choose from). Oak-wood lids embellish the various patterns and are signed by Peake as part of the craft process.

A book of drawings and references, titled “Fieldwork,” accompanies the collection. The book illustrates the continuum between inspiration, glass and cut pattern. The artist’s visual occupations materialize in the cut glass. In addition, Peake has designed a pattern sheet from which custom pieces can be individually selected.

Founder of J. HILL’s Standard, Anike Tyrrell, notes “Finding a small book of Nigel’s drawings on Irish landscape inspired the idea for the collection. It was clear his account of the textures and patterns so vivid in nature would look brilliant on glassware.”

J. HILL’s Standard, known for their handmade collectible and award-winning crystal glass, creates special collections – be they bespoke, custom or part of the permanent collections – in collaboration with artists, designers and creatives. The company’s debut collections by Martino Gamper and Scholten & Baijings were shown at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during Salone del Mobile 2014. The two collections of glassware have gone on to win many awards and critical praise, including the German Design Council prize for Tabletop in 2016 and the Wallpaper* prize for ‘Best Whiskey Glass.’ The pieces have also been acquired by the Louvre for permanent display in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and in the National Museum of Ireland. Recently, J. HILL’s Standard has collaborated with Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken on a limited collection titled “The Secant Project,” which includes a wall, floor and table light.

NOTES TO EDITORS:

About J. HILL’s Standard:

J. HILL’s Standard products blend contemporary design and traditional craftsmanship celebrating the progressive and the handmade. They celebrate the dynamism of handmade crystal and explore its inherent qualities whilst challenging the existing understanding of cutting and embellishment. Hand-cut crystal is part of Ireland’s legacy – particularly the area of Waterford. Perfecting an age-old discipline, J. HILL's Standard joins the few remaining master craftsmen in the region to preserve and evolve the artistry of hand-cut crystal. An innovative young family company working from the Atlantic shore of Ireland, they create rare, custom and bespoke pieces alongside functional and singular handcrafted objects. Their interest in exploring the inherent qualities of crystal through both form and semiotic contrasts reveals aspects to its nature that may be overlooked by more traditional methodologies.

About Nigel Peake:

Nigel Peake lives in Paris and County Down. He studied architecture at the University of Edinburgh where he received a RIBA Silver Medal Commendation in 2005. His drawings have been collected in several volumes published by Princeton Architectural Press and Yvon Lambert. His collaborations include the NY Times, Hermès and Flos. His art work has been exhibited in Paris, Tokyo, London, and New York.

Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin Opens September 21

August 14, 2019

September 21–22, 2019 / Preview: Friday, September 20, 6 – 8 PM
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart –Berlin

Friends with Books 2017. Thomas Bruns, 2017. Courtesy Friends with Books, Berlin.

Friends with Books: Art Book Fair Berlin, Europe’s leading art book fair committed to the distribution and promotion of artists’ books celebrates its sixth edition in the iconic Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart –Berlin. From September 20–22, 2019, a diverse array of over 200 international artists and publisher exhibitors will present their publications, attesting to the resurgence of the discipline. Free to the public, the fair will additionally host lectures, book presentations, panel discussions, performances and art installations that explore the evolution and visibility of this experimental field of publishing in today’s digital climate.

The 2019 edition will feature aseries of curated temporary Art Installations by artists, including: Tamami Iinuma (FR/JP), Kathrin Köster(DE), Marlena Kudlicka (PL) and Rudolf Samohejl (CZ). For the second presentation at Friends with Books, there is a newly commissioned Children’s Art Installation– this year by artist Egill Sæbjörnsson(IS), Iceland’s representative at the 57th Venice Biennale, with a children’s workshop and daily activities. Performances include the artist collective Black Palm (DE) and artists Mette Edvardson (NO),Jeroen Peeters (BE) and Lara Salmon(US).

The Public Programmes series features lectures, performances, conversations, and panel discussions presented in partnership with Argobooks: Birgit Rieger and Claudia Wahjudi; Artphilein Editions: Caio Reisewitz and Daniela Labra; Tamami Iinuma and Thibaut de Ruyter; Black Palm: Sonja Cvitkovic, Verena Dengler, Marine Drouan, Anke Dyes, and Megan Francis Sullivan; Verlag der Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung: Micha Bonk, Ulrike Boskamp, Joerg Franzbecker, Annette Hans, and Sebastian Stein; Marlena Kudlicka and Agnieszka Gratza; Drucken Heften Laden (DHL): Erik Göngrich; The Invisible Archive (in collaboration with Goodbye Books): Yon Natalie Mik, Lara Salmon, and Micaela Terk; Hatje Cantz: Nanne Meyer; Fiona Geuss; neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbk): Florian Wüst; Varamo Press: Mette Edvardsen and Jeroen Peeters; and others.

Established in 2014 by co-founders Vanessa Adler and Savannah Gorton, Friends With Books is a non-profit organisation dedicated to contemporary art publishing. The event draws over 12,000 visitors each year, representing a platform for exchange between art publishing professionals and the general public.

Special Thanks: Udo Kittelmann, Dr. Gabriele Knapstein, Dr. Nina Schallenberg, Fiona Geuss, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin; Gaby Horn, KW Institute for Contemporary Art; Barbara Wien; Dr. Michael Lailach, Kunstbibliothek Berlin; Claus Due, Studio Claus Due; Virginia Illner, Medialis Druck.

Support: Friends with Books is generously supported in part by Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Friends with Books 2019 Participants (200+ exhibitors):

The complete list of participants will be announced in September.

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Austrian Cultural Forum New York Upcoming Exhibition: Resident Alien

July 16, 2019

Peter Trummer with Elisabeth Sinnesberger, Pile City Vienna, Courtesy Peter Trummer Architect, © Peter Trummer/Elisabeth Sinnesberger, 2015.

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents an exhibition celebrating the contributions of Austrian-American architects in the United States since the modernist period.

September 25, 2019 – February 17, 2020
Opening Reception and Panel Talks: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 | 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.

The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) is pleased to present Resident Alien, an exhibition that explores the cultural contributions of migrant Austrian-American architects in the United States since the modernist period. Framed into five distinct categories – Primitive Domains, Aggregate Families, Urban Terrestrials, Cloud Natures, and Media Atmospheres, the exhibition investigates the concept of bicultural heritage constructed in spaces of the in-between alongside other formal, technological, atmospheric, and psychoanalytic architectural dialogues. Curated by Cal Poly professors Dr. Stephen Phillips, AIA (SPARCHS) and Axel Schmitzberger, AIA (domæn Inc.), Resident Alien: Austrian Architects in America will be on view from September 25, 2019 – February 17, 2020. The exhibition will notably highlight the significant innovations and impact of Austrian architects on modern, postmodern, deconstructivist, digital, and post-digital design culture over the past century.

The exhibition will be opened in the presence of the Austrian Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Culture, Mr. Alexander Schallenberg.

The ACFNY’s gallery space is set to reflect the five themes of the exhibition. Building on architects’ recurring use of geometric primitive forms (rectangles, spheres, cones, and cylinders), the exhibition surveys the presence of these building blocks in the landscape – in a first gallery, Primitive Domains – and aggregated together into larger modular compositions – in the second gallery, Aggregate Families. The third section, Urban Terrestrials, explores the contextual placement of these forms in the urban environment through a selection of examples. Architecture of all scales – domestic, urban, global, and universal – has significant political, social, and environmental impact on the natural and built world. Titled Cloud Natures, the fourth theme examines environmental and ecological advocacy as it materializes in architecture and its design. The fifth and final gallery, Media Atmospheres, discusses architecture’s atmospheric effects, both physical and digital, and how they affect the human condition – the ways we live, and how we communicate.

While these themes apply to most forms of architecture, the exhibition investigates them by considering the work of over forty Austrian-American architects, thereby exploring the implications of bi-cultural heritage in this context. Set in the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, these concerns take on a particular meaning. Specifically, the building, conceived by Austrian architect Raimund Abraham, acts as relevant case in point. The provocative structure, which could be described as a series of primitive trapezoidal geometric forms aggregated together into a complex tower, has a significant impact architecturally, environmentally, and culturally on Midtown Manhattan’s urban setting – one that resonates to this day in the global discourse.

Featured architects and designers include:
Raimund Abraham, Herwig Baumgartner (B+U), Herbert Bayer, Ella Briggs, Elizabeth Close, Matias del Campo & Sandra Manninger (SPAN), Paul Frankl, Victor Gruen, Erwin Hauer, Haus-Rucker-Co., Coop Himmelb(l)au, Hans Hollein, Waltraut Hoheneder, Barbara Imhof, and René Waclavicek (LIQUIFER Systems Group), Christoph Kapeller, Frederick Kiesler, Hubert Klumpner (Urban-Think Tank), Julia Koerner, Duks Koschitz, Christoph a. Kumpusch (Forward slash ( / )), Andrea Lenardin (a-l-m project), Adolf Loos, Mark Mack, Richard Neutra, Charles Paterson, Carl Pruscha, Bernard Rudofsky, Friedrich St.Florian, Rudolph Schindler, Axel Schmitzberger (domaen), Peter Trummer, Joseph Urban, Bettina Zerza, Liane Zimbler, and Susanne Zottl.

The exhibition has been supported by generous contributions from List GC, Zumtobel Group, and Arktura.

NOTES TO EDITORS:

About the Curators:
Resident Alien is curated by Stephen Phillips, an architect, historian, scholar and founding director of the Cal Poly Los Angeles Metropolitan Program in Architecture and Urban Design alongside Axel Schmitzberger, an architect, graphic designer, and educator who is principal of domaen Inc., an architecture and construction company in Los Angeles.

About the Austrian Cultural Forum New York:
With its architectural landmark building in Midtown Manhattan, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York is dedicated to innovative and cutting-edge programming, showcasing the best of Austrian contemporary art, music, literature, performance, and academic thought in New York and throughout the United States. In addition to presenting three group exhibitions per year in its multi-level gallery space and housing around 10,000 volumes of Austriaca in its library dedicated to Frederic Morton, it hosts over 100 free events per year in its own auditorium and supports at least as many projects at partner institutions across the nation. www.acfny.org

CHYBIK + KRISTOF To Break Ground on Research Center of Modular Architecture

July 9, 2019

The architects partner with leading Czech module manufacturer KOMA MODULAR, introducing a new system of modular construction.

Visualization of Modular Research Center. Photo Courtesy of CHYBIK + KRISTOF, LAN Render.

CHYBIK + KRISTOF ARCHITECTS & URBAN DESIGNERS break ground on KOMA MODULAR’s Research Center of Modular Architecture in the Czech Republic, in a new design system, opening new ways of designing with modules. While celebrated for its sustainable and holistic nature, modular architecture requires a significantly higher design complexity, challenging architects to depart from the standard rectangular construction and spaces. In a reimagination of spatial configurations, CHYBIK + KRISTOF instead turn their attention to creating organic shapes through the vacancies between modules. The project is set to be complete in 2020.

While modular structures are usually created by placing right-angled modules side by side, CHYBIK + KRISTOF realize new spatial possibilities through a custom combination. Spatial modules containing facilities are leveled onto the planar flooring modules, which are anchored to the foundation. Both modules then function as columns, allowing them to hold the roof modules and form a continuous main space. Making sure to keep the workplace breathable, all-glass surfaces between the modules draw in an abundance of light from all sides of the structure, while a pair of skylights further relaxes the space. The Research Center will be a prototype of a new, adaptable system for various projects.

Adaptable to the needs of engineers and guest researchers, the center in KOMA MODULAR’s production grounds will feature 12 individual working stations, as well as a main space for collaborative research projects. The building will serve as a flexible space for developing new ideas in modular constructions and a think-tank for the KOMA MODULAR factory. The open, shared central space will be spatially organized and segmented to avoid negative aspects of large open space offices, maintaining a collaborative community with fluid structure. Drapes and other mobile elements will allow the space to be to further sectioned.

As one of the most prominent employers in the region and influencer of modular architecture, KOMA MODULAR’s company base integrates the needs of its employees and visitors, functioning beyond a manufacturing site. The work on the research center itself was preceded by designing a masterplan for an entrance and a public area for the factory. This zone is created around a triangular courtyard with greenery and a multifunctional amphitheater. Two sides of the courtyard are created by previously completed projects between architects and KOMA, the canteen and EXPO pavilion.

CHYBIK + KRISTOF attribute their accomplishment to the diverse series of projects they collaboratively developed with KOMA MODULAR. Demonstrating multifaceted uses of modular architecture, in 2013 they completed an employee cafeteria, in 2014 they announced, “City modules,” atypical modules for temporary urban events, and in 2015 the Czech Expo Pavilion in Milan where they were awarded the bronze medal for architecture. Currently reassembled in the KOMA grounds, the pavilion is repurposed into an administrative building.

Founding architect Michal Krištof noted, “During our experience working with KOMA, we came to understand both the possibilities and limitations of modular architecture. Each project brought new challenges and improvements. With the new Research Center, we wanted to push the spatial possibilities of modular architecture even further.”

T SAKHI Architects Unveil ADAR Épicerie and Traiteur in Paris

July 2, 2019

The Beirut-based studio unveils a new Mediterranean restaurant, the latest work in a diverse series of architectural projects reflecting on the nuances of dining.

ADAR, Photo by Romain Bassenne, Courtesy of T SAKHI

July 2, 2019 (Paris) - T SAKHI is a fluid design and architecture studio, hybridizing multiple creative disciplines to awaken all five senses, and provoke diverse modes of human interaction. Cofounded by Lebanese-Polish sisters Tessa and Tara Sakhi, the studio’s diverse projects include commercial and residential architecture, product design, art objects, installations and films that are playfully subversive. In July, the sisters unveil their latest venture, the Levantine Épicerie and Traiteur “ADAR” in Paris, set in the 49th house of the historical Passage des Panoramas of Paris’ 2nd arrondissement. Demonstrating new and evolved ways of expressing culture, the sister’s rendition of the Middle Eastern restaurant reminds one of the unique sensory experience inherent to a culture.

ADAR subtly captures Levantine culture without falling into clichés of orientalism and grandiosity. Instead, the sisters mimic the raw colors of the landscape in hues of browns, oranges, and off-white, with a central, corrugated mesh chandelier collecting dried spices, vegetables, and flowers to evoke the souk. Optimising the natural filtered light of the Passage’s glass roof, T SAKHI’s warm palette integrates walnut and oak wood, oxidized brass, patina walls, verde olive granite, hand-made ceramic plates, and inox offering rich layers of texture.

Throughout the restaurant, a bodily sense of dynamism is achieved. Stained mirrors reflect the movement of visitors, while chefs Tamir Nahmias and Aaron Rosenthal prepare fresh Levantine cuisine in a striking terra-cotta open-kitchen, framing the act of cooking as a performance. Extending the experience, organic Mediterranean food products from Greece, Lebanon, Turkey, and Italy will be available to purchase at ADAR, inviting Levantine elements into Parisian homes.

Often exploring dining as a social act that centers on a shared olfactory and gustatory experience, the sisters created “Silent Echoes,” a transportable dining installation, which satirically visualizes the tendencies of individualization, self-absorption, and virtual interaction. A repetitive seating arrangement visually bars and isolates the viewer from their dining partner, and must purely rely on video calls to communicate and interact. Grey candles, grey lavender flowers, and grey resin, alongside a sound installation by 21DB of manipulated cutlery sounds, create a juxtaposition, distorting and disorienting the perception of the space’s dimensions. While the monochromatic aesthetics may be singular and harmonious, the symphony of various smells and sounds overwhelm the non-visual senses.

In the restaurant jazz bar SAX by T SAKHI, in the heart of Beirut’s renovated souks,various physical and visual interactions between visitors and performers are mediated through vivacious architectural elements. The sisters subsequently created the film, “And Then I Was Hearing Colors,” inviting director Cyril Aris, musician Mme Chandelier, and fashion house Second St. to explore the different narratives of the space. Inspired by Blue Velvet by David Lynch, and the old jazz bars of a bygone era, the sisters draw heavily on nostalgia to heighten memory’s activity in the space.

CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects and Urban Designers Awarded Design Vanguard Prize by Architectural Record Magazine

June 3, 2019

CHYBIK + KRISTOF Architects and Urban Designers, a young Czech architecture practice, have won Architectural Record’s 2019 Design Vanguard Prize. Spotlighting the promising practice as a “future leader of architecture,” the prize affirms CHYBIK + KRISTOF to be at the forefront of their field, as the jury looks to emerging, international firms forging new ways of approaching built environments.

CHYBIK + KRISTOF, which currently operates with 50+ international team members across offices in Prague, Brno, and Bratislava, is featured in the June 2019 issue of Architectural Record. The in-depth feature will present their work, and chart their growth from 2010 when the practice was founded by Ondřej Chybík and Michal Krištof.

An eagerly anticipated project by CHYBIK + KRISTOF is the The Lahofer Winery, set to open in Spring 2020. The versatile winemaking facility features a visitor center, a tasting room and an amphitheater that rests tactfully on the structure’s undulant roof. Employing architectural elements to embed the building in the surrounding Moravian landscape, the winery interacts as opposed to dominates the environment, as a colonnade of arches align with the vineyard rows, and the amphitheater’s incline mimics the surrounding slopes. The architects are also known for designing the Czech Pavilion at the 2015 Expo in Milan, utilizing modular architecture, which can be again reassembled in a different location, as well as the Gallery of Furniture in Brno and its striking plastic chair facade. Other notable recent projects include the Urban Infill Lofts, a revitalizing Brno’s post-industrial district, and the Czech Forestry Headquarters, envisioning the forest as an intimate, transparent workplace.

Past winners of the Design Vanguard Prize include: Sou Fujimoto, Bjarke Ingels Group, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, and Smiljan Radić. The winners leave a legacy of actively realizing conceptual thinking, and being proponents of new practices and dialogues in the architectural field. Dedicated to documenting architectural history, the renowned publication Architectural Record has been in print for 125 years, and awards an annual prize to young, game-changing architects from 2000 on.

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