Move over vaporetti — there’s a new barge in town. Slated to gracing the banks of the Grand Canal in Venice over the past five days was a project by The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, entitled “Commercial Break.” The exhibition is organized by Neville Wakefield, a contemporary art writer prolific curator globally. Powered by POST Magazine, “Commercial Break” considers itself to be a provocative architectural intervention in a city where no advertising is traditionally displayed. Unfortunately, as Artinfo reported, the city pulled permits a few days before and the videos were instead screened at the project’s Bauer Hotel party. The woman behind the “GCCC” is Dasha Zukhova, girlfriend of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich; it is the institution’s second project in Venice.  All videos are now viewable on the exhibition’s website.

Among videos featured is one by  Richard Phillips, starring Lindsey Lohan.

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Warhol remains as a chinese winter garden in my heart (self-portrait), 2006, Terence Koh via ArtNews

The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presents two simultaneous solo exhibitions by Bavarian artist Michael Sailstorfer and Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh. Both Sailstorfer’s “10 000 Stones” and Koh’s “Captain Buddha” make use of ready-mades and found objects to present their own artistic statement. Each artist’s installation work comments on his surroundings, though in different ways.

The Art Newpaper [The Art Newspaper]
Current Exhibitions [Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt]
Terence Koh and Michael Sailstorfer at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt [Artipedia]
Michael Sailstorfer: Tire with popcorn [Art Magazine]
Terence Koh [ArtNews]

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