Information Lounges 2006

Dosierung, 2007
by Coco Kühn

In the Company Lounge, Berlin artist Coco Kühn (*1971) presents a new variation of her installation “Dosierung”. It consists of layered empty cans. Its concise structure reminds the Sixties’ Minimal Art. Irritated and faszinated by the coming and going of all day objects, Coco Kühn did chose common cans as her basic artistic material.

Coco Kühn lives and works in Berlin
www.coco-kuehn.de

represented by Rocket Gallery, London / Elisabeth Leach Gallery, Portland /
Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv

OPENING NIGHTS

by Mladen Bizumic (in cooperation with Charim Galerie, Wien)
Walls, stools, work on paper and sound
Courtesy: Galerie Charim, Wien/Berlin
www.charimgalerie.at
www.mladenbizumic.com

This is an attempt to go beyond anything strictly aesthetic, conceptual, or functional. Every space has a large influence on how we feel, think, and relate to each other. Here, the cultural space is disorganized, then re-arranged and ‘translated’ from music into wall, from wall into furniture - in order to open up new prospective connections. The score of Erik Satie’s ‘Gymnopedies No. 1’ (1888) is applied to the space of Palais Am Funkturm. Geometric shapes within the space (holes and rectangular units) are used as a take-off for the work’s design. Some notes of the well-known melody of ‘Gymnopedie No. 1’ are ‘translated’ into the large holes (cutout circles) in the walls. Other notes of 'Gymnopedie No.1' are piped through the sound system from time to time. The cutout circles are assembled as 'piano stools’ for the talk lounge audience. “OPENING NIGHTS” is both ‘spatial music’ and ‘musical space’. It is translated and abstracted in both highly structured and oddly arbitrary ways in order to provide a mental platform for doubt, discussion, and reflection. Satie’s ‘furniture music’ is considered to be the precursor to background music.  It’s development from the early 1900’s has led to what we now experience as Muzak, no longer performed live but created to fill a space whether occupied by people or not. Similar to background music, the talk lounges at art fairs exist as a kind of Muzak to the business of art.

Mladen Bizumic (*1976) lives and works in Berlin and Auckland, Neuseeland

Art is so small / consider the opposite

by Daniela Brahm
Chipboard, paint, wooden planks, paint,
paintings on wood, on paper, on canvas
approx. 60 m x 3,5 m
Courtesy: Galerie Mirko Mayer , Cologne, Hall 11.2, Stand 122

The „kleine Stern“ (“Small Star”) is a transit situated between the fair halls.  It is built to cross from one hall to the other. However, structurally it should be seen as a “traffic junction” and not simply a building. It is a dynamic outside space which has been brought inside and under a roof on the fair grounds. My work deals with this parallel of indoor and outdoor space, the transfer of municipal urbanity into a safe art space. I am curious as to how much activity has to be assigned to art in this special arrangement to resist reality.
Every fair seems rather clean, with their red carpets. What I’m adding to this is the aesthetic of a building site as an image of dispute of an unfinished thought. The building site is a proc-ess not a solution. The complex materiality brings even more feelings associated with a street underneath the roof. What I’m adding are works from the series “ideal privacy” and “procla-mation Posetrs.” These are paintings that range in their motives and their contents between individual freedom and participation in a social context. The works that form the exhibitions name “Art is so small” and “Consider the opposite” are especially made for this installation.

Art is always a question of translation. One theme is dimension, in art the motives are scaled in the process of representation. Houses and people are smaller, faces turn sometimes bigger for displaying them, one can only dream of the size of a billboard. Outside on the street every-thing has a different dimension. I keep asking myself how to create my own reality with my works, a situation that doesn’t only display but actually makes something tangible by the means of painting. This extended idea of painting understands the room as a painting through which the beholder becomes the protagonist by moving through the room. The only measure for perception is the one’s own viewpoint. The relation by barriers — like space, the self, one’s nationality, cultural identity — want to be read.

Daniela Brahm (*1966) lives and works in Berlin

unknown Brokers

by Andreas Kopp
Metal, lacquer, rust, gold leaf’
215 paintings each 20 x 30 cm, overall dimensions variable

The contemporary theme of the broker shows places, situations and virtual marketplaces, which only start connecting by the similar theme to a timely, geographically and social con-text. Both the simultaneity of the displayed items and the globalised media reality forms the context, which is frozen and decelerated in the painting process. The everyday mass phenom-ena of the computer screen as a knowledge- and information- storage is translated into an abstract rectangle, which either twinkles in beaten gold or absorbs matt-finished.
By these colour changes one can almost figure out an ornamental frieze out of the single painting, that assemble the ones in the Vienna Secession. This helps to put one single paint-ings into a bigger context of content and form. The ornamental pushes the figurative form in a superior, but levelling coherence similar to the individual person, that forms an unpersonal component in a networked and globalised world. In their simultaneity content and abstraction play a game of delusion.

Technical terms: there are about 900 paintings in the size of a computer screen (20 x 30 cm), which are hanged similar to a wall of screens. Some of them are varnished on the backside which creates a subtle, neoncolour-like reflection at the wall. There are put up with a distance of about 3 cm. Infact the hanging is pretty simple, as they are put up with only two thin nails. With its free spaces inbetween the series seems almost moving and lively like a wall of TV screens, which is enhanced by the fact, that every screen is either gold-, silver- or copper-plated. These screens twinkle depending on the beholders viewpoint. Above one single recognizable motive the wall shows in a flickering, ornamental frieze resembling the Vienna Secession’s frieze on one hand but displaying the very contemporary theme of stock exchange trade, mainly based on computers.

A group of 450 single motives was previously shown before the Berlin art fair ART FORUM in the Bundesverband Deutscher Banken and was bought as a permanent part of their dis-played exhibition.

Andreas Kopp
andreas-kopp@web.de

Cartographic Device, 2007

by Dharmesh Patel

Plywood, Marble gravel
5,3m x 3,6m x 2,7m

My proposal for Art Forum Berlin is to create an oasis that serves as seating & lounge area for the Art Forum Berlin attendees. It will be a topological surface that emulates the landscape. With the aid of Post-Industrial methodologies to create these landforms, they will function to provide areas of rest and contemplation.  They attempt not to measure nature, but instead become an integral component to understanding it. As a result of this knowledge, our built environment is delineated as an affect of the organic. The object is inhabitable for several occupants and will rise out of the ground plane, filled with marble gravel to contrast the building.

Dharmesh Patel is one of two recipients of the DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Emerging Artist Award 2007. From October 5 to October 14, 2007 further works by Dhamesh Patel and Marty McElveen will be exhibited at the Atrium of DaimlerChrysler Financial Services at Potsdamer Platz.

DaimlerChrysler Financial Services

y= A x sin(ωt + θ), 2007

by Marty McElveen
Spruce wood and steel
6m x 4.5m x 2.7 m
Measures are based on the golden section.


My design proposal for ArtForum Berlin consists of an undulating form (two walls & one ceiling) located adjacent to the fountains outside of the fair. The intent of the design is to provide a visual barrier that separates the enclosed space from other areas of the exterior, while simultaneously connecting both areas through the careful modulation of transparency and opacity. By pairing current fabrication technologies with off-the-shelf materials (lumber in this case), I’m attempting to create an architecture that redefines conventional means of design, fabrication, and construction. The form is derived from a subtle disturbance in a simple surface where a sinusoidal equation is applied to achieve a linear undulation in the walls & ceiling. The dimensions are based on the Golden Section, and are approximately 6m by 4,3m. I envision my proposal as a functional installation that could serve as an enclosure for a café, bar, or place to rest.

Marty McElveen is one of two recipients of the DaimlerChrysler Financial Services Emerging Artist Award 2007. From October 5 to October 14, 2007 further works by Marty McElveen and Dharmesh Patel will be exhibited at the atrium of DaimlerChrysler Financial Services at Potsdamer Platz.

DaimlerChrysler Financial Services

Monopol Lounge

Welcome at Monopol Lounge!

Monopol-Magazine for Art and Living. The Lounge
The Monopol-Lounge at the ART FORUM BERLIN

The Monopol Lounge is like the magazine Monopol itself: in the thick of art events, and yet a site of relaxation.

The Monopol Lounge thereby presents itself in an unusual combination of design and pleasure. The Berlin designers from Coordination created it exclusively for the art fair and Monopol.

In our VIP Lounge, the Brandenburger Hof, a synonym for the hotel business with style in Berlin, offers fine dining from its starred kitchen, the restaurant “Die Quadriga”.

Join us in indulging in a short break from the bustle of the art fair. There is no better place for deciding whether to really buy that special picture. Nowhere else can one hide so well from burdensome interlocutors. And nowhere else at this art fair can one have fifteen minutes with the pleasant feeling of being a few meters above everything – with a glass of champagne or a cup of cappuccino in one’s hand.

BRANDENBURGER HOF Berlin
Eislebener Straße 14, Berlin-Charlottenburg
www.brandenburger-hof.com