Artist / Inventor Adam Frank's Reveal

Phil — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:06:00 GMT

Adam is an artist/inventor whose work focuses on the investigation of light and interactivity. The products are decidedly low tech, but fascinating all the same. The Reveal uses projected light to create the impression of sunlight streaming through a window and onto an interior wall. Thanks to convection the cast light creates a subtle illusion of wind moving through trees outside.

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Paola Pivi at the Kunsthalle Basel

Phil — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:17:00 GMT

Alaska-based Milanese born Paola Pivi is having her first solo exhibition, "It just keeps getting better", in Switzerland at the Kunsthalle Basel. Our favorite work from the exhibit is the interactive sculpture "E, 2001" (pictured), a cylindrical structure supporting thousands of steel needles that move in reaction to the presence of a human body. The structure is able to detect a visitor utilizing photocells. The needles, which are suspended on nylon strings, react and move towards the visitor. Pivi developed the sculpture together with scientists at the particle physics laboratory CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

Pivi employs a variety of media, oftentimes exhibiting an interactive element. Most of her work is unusual in size and scope and requires technical knowledge to produce. People, animals and material objects are often shown in odd situations and contexts so they take on modified meaning breaking cultural and social conventions.

The Kunsthalle Basel, which has been running since 1872, is one of the world's leading exhibitors for contemporary art. For more information and images on the exhibit and museum visit the Kunsthalle Basel.

The exhibition runs 19 January - 18 March 2007
Kunsthalle Basel
Steinenberg 7, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland
Tel +41 61 206 99 00

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Artist / Inventor Adam Frank's Reveal

Paola Pivi at the Kunsthalle Basel