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Amanda Coulson and the VOLTA Team
In the early morning hours before opening its doors to the public, VOLTA Artistic Director Amanda Coulson sits behind an industrial wood table with a cappuccino steaming in front of her in the Markthalle. The space has undergone many changes since it was first built and served as an active marketplace until 2004. Now the […]
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P!NK Up Your Life
With the P!NK UP YOUR LIFE photography exhibition I wanted to bring a colorful spark into the cloudy and sometimes dull life in Basel. My inspiration came thus from the everyday life, the places, people and things surrounding me. “Pink” means to be different, positive and happy. For me no other color has a stronger […]
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Nicholas Winter: Through a Lens in Basel
Installation: How has the environment of Basel inspired the direction of your work? Nicholas Winter: I’ve been in Basel for twelve years. To be honest, I don’t find the city or the people photographically inspiring. But there is something about it, I find that the subjects that interest me, that I want to capture are […]
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GalleryLOG: Faces of Art
Installation was first introduced to GalleryLOG upon our arrival in Manhattan as we accepted the tremendous invitation to act as the main media partner for VOLTA NY. Before the hum drum of the fair began and the doors were officially opened to the public there was a moment of calm before the roar. As the early […]
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Todd Pavlisko: The Mathematics of a Bullet
For Todd Pavlisko’s solo exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum titled Crown, the artist was granted permission from the City Council of Cincinnati and the museum to create a work within the museum with a sniper firing into a site specific sculpture. His work has been included in exhibition at the Bass Museum (forthcoming), Samsøñ, […]
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Patrick Jacobs: An Architecture of Lenses
Patrick Jacobs intentionally blurs boundaries between the traditional artistic media of painting, sculpture and photography in his works. At the same time, they present the viewer with a spatial and perceptual conundrum; we are drawn into a space at once determinate and infinite, natural and contrived, prosaic and otherworldly.