A hand carefully writes the daily menu on a large chalkboard.  Beneath the etching of the chalk, Arthur Duncan enters the interior of BONVIVANT, a culinary gem nestled off the beaten path, hidden among the narrow streets of Basel.  The intimate dining room features long wooden tables and a collection of chairs ranging in style from […]

Every picture tells a story.  For collectors Sirje Helder Gold and Michael O. Gold, each work basks in its own magnificence and curiosity on display in their Southern California home.  Designed to showcase their growing collection.  Every work has a personality so palpable it vibrates off the walls.  Similar to the young narrator in Proust’s […]

The combination of frontal and reverse portraits allowed for the development of both personal and universal stories.  The children are presented as individuals; however, their stories speak to greater pervasive truths and problems within our society.  Told in their own words, their stories touch on some of our most pressing social issues and common human […]

The traveling portrait pop up invites Angelinos and it’s resident artists to come and have their portrait taken for free. Each participant receives their beautiful, high resolution portrait and can do whatever they wish with it (Sell, Trade, Instagram, Tweet, Print, Publish, etc.). The portraits are published within Installation Magazine along with more information about […]

Installation: As VOLTA approaches its 10th year at Basel, what are your thoughts looking back?  What initially inspired the founding of VOLTA? Uli Voges: In 1992, when I started in the gallery business there were only five art fairs in the world.  It was very simple to see how a gallery had to progress in order to […]

Referencing the expulsion from the Garden of Eden the works of Henri van Noordenburg focus on overlaying a European aesthetic on the physical and intellectual landscape.  Starting with self-portraits set amid a featureless black background, van Noordenburg slowly and meticulously hand-etches the photographic surface.   van Noordenburg describes the process of self-nude photography as an […]