Posts Tagged ‘Samantha Manton’

This Weekend: STROKE – The Urban Art Fair

Stroke 0.3 in Berlin - Murals by Alexandros & Paris (left) and Montana (right)

Blog entry by Monica Salazar – in Berlin; Thursday, October 13, 2011.

Starting Friday, STROKE.ARTFAIR returns to Postbahnhof Berlin for it’s second year in the city. The fair presents a focus on designs of the everyday streetscape, with its graffiti, tags, tattoos, advertising and graphic design….

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Viktoria Binschtok’s World of Details

Blog entry by Samantha Manton – in Berlin; Tuesday, October 11, 2011.

It is the juxtaposition of small-scale, black and white, digitally produced prints with their much larger, full colour, analogously prepared counterparts on the walls of Klemm’s that arouses great curiosity at even the slightest glance through the gallery’s glass frontage. It is the relationship between the two that presents Viktoria Binschtok as a thoughtful and analytical artist whose pictorial explorations raise questions about visibility, function and artistic intent.

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FAIR FLAIR: Preview Berlin 2011

Blog entry by Samantha Manton; Photography by Jules Webster – in Berlin; Monday, September 12, 2011.

For the last four days, we at Berlin Art Link have had the great pleasure of mingling amongst 61 exhibitors from 15 nations in the fantastically huge, historic space of Hangar 2 at Tempelhof Airport, soaking up the fervent atmosphere of ‘the emerging art fair’ Preview Berlin.
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Berlin Art Week…are you ready?

Blog entry by Samantha Manton – in Berlin; Monday, September 05, 2011.

This week, art-lovers of Berlin will be welcoming the beginning of a very busy autumn and coming out en-mass for some fantastic fairs and events that are offered as part of opening week of Berlin’s 2011 Kunstherbst.

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Time, precious time…
IOANA NEMES’ Monthly Evaluations (Time Exposure)

Blog entry by Samantha Manton – in Berlin; Saturday, August 20, 2011.

This week I was lucky enough to discover the conceptual work of Romanian artist Ioana Nemes following a visit to the Jiri Svestka Gallery in Schöneberg for their summer show ‘On the Threshold’. Three large wall pieces, each a different colour but each resembling a giant tombstone, dominate the brightest of spaces at the gallery, demanding a somewhat ominous sense of intrigue…

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