Posts Tagged ‘Alison Hugill’

Die Grosse Weltausstellung: ‘The World is Not Fair’

raumlaborberlin: “Die Grosse Weltausstellung: The World Is Not Fair”, pavilion in progress

Article by Alison Hugill, video production by Dan Dorocic and Alison Hugill in Berlin; Saturday, May 19, 2012.

Amid debates over future uses for the soon-defunct Tegel airport, and on the eve of the 2012 London Summer Olympics, architectural collective raumlaborberlin and three-theatre ensemble Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) have joined forces to critically reinterpret the meaning of the traditional World Fair…[read on…]

FIFTY / FIFTY: Melissa Fisher & Teresa Aversa at SlaM

Teresa Aversa

Blog post by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

The space at Sur la Montagne (SlaM) Gallery on Torstrasse is split down the middle, with the work of Toronto-based artists Melissa Fisher and Teresa Aversa exhibited on either side. Aversa’s ‘Untitled (Flower Portraits) – an ongoing series of photos of fake flower bouquets, taken in cemeteries around Toronto and developed at Walmart – cover the walls adjacent to the gallery entrance. [read on…]

“On the Road” Series: Berlin-based artist, Hannes Bend shows at Miami’s Charest-Weinberg Gallery

"Eclipse" (2012), installation view at Charest-Weinberg, Miami

Blog post and photos by Alison Hugill – in Berlin; Thursday, Apr. 26, 2012.

Miami’s Charest-Weinberg Gallery is currently host to ‘Eclipse’, an exhibition by Berlin-based artist Hannes Bend. In 1972, the Broward Artificial Reef Inc. Company (BARINC) began dumping car tires off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, in the hopes that they would foster marine life through the introduction of a manmade reef. Comprised of close to 2,000,000 tires today [read on…]