"Art Basel" is coming from a mix of "Art Buying, Art Easle and Art Battle" - because at the world biggest art fair you got a complete range from 20th and 21th century art to buy, and the galleries are batteling for costumers and the artists easeld work is batteling for attention. Like every year, also the Art 38 Basel 07 offers a broad insight at the literally state of the art from all disciplines. Over 290 galleries from all around the world, thousands of art pieces and a universe of impressions is cocooning you completely from the very first moment you lose yourself in this creative, fascinating and damn expensive beenyard. Or just enjoy a ride in the probably most expensive supermarket, which only feeds your senses. But be careful, your brain could strike after all this. So love it till you break.

www.artbasel.ch

“Crossing Wonderland”, Patricia Waller’s forth solo show at the Galerie Deschler after “Needleworks” (1999), “Tatort Museum” (2002), and “Nightmares” (2005), once again lures us into a world of its own, a world of fairies in which the wondrous comes true and yet where nothing is ever quite as it seems. Waller’s crocheted creatures give three-dimensional shape to fairy-tale figures, childhood fantasies, and turns of language. But because they are entirely
made of crochet-work, these shapes remain hovering on the threshold between literal interpretation and metaphorical expression. And just as in the largely unexplored abysses of the oceans, these are depths within which the
bizarre and the wondrous is without prejudice allied to the BEAUTIFUL and the TERRIBLE.

Patricia Waller: 1962 born in Santiago, Chile / 1968 move to Germany / 1983-85 study at the Free Art School in Nürtingen (Germany) / 2003-04 lecturer at the University of Cologne, Institute for Art and Art History, Department of Textile Art. She lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Exhibition NOW:
www.deschler-berlin.de

The ARTIST:
www.patriciawaller.com

Our new record Writer's Block is released in Scandinavia May 24th. We will host a release party at Sjöhästen in Stockholm May 23rd. Entrance is free and there will be cheap albums for sale. We will also be performing at the Popaganda Festival the 25th of May at 17 pm. For all those who passed the Peter, Bjorn and John Launch Event, get to know these nice folks from the north.

Peter, Bjorn and John and a Website:
www.peterbjornandjohn.com

Norwegian Forest lights draw on a classic Scandinavian tradition of using thin birch strips for lighting. Norwegian Forest lights show a deep pine forest with animals in light and shade. An eagle registers movement on the ground – is it prey or predator? When lit, the blonde birch veneer shines with a warm glow and the delicately cut forest motif allows white light to filter out between the highlights of the trees. Cathrine Kullberg (1971) lives in Oslo, Norway. She set up Cathrine Kullberg Lighting in 2006, launching her first lamp Norwegian Forest, spring 2007. Light up yourself.

More on:
www.cathrinekullberg.com

Wer sich in Zeiten wie diesen, für ein Haustier interessiert, setzt sich schnell mit globalen Themen wie Überbevölkerung der Welt, Nahrungsmittelverteilung, dem Sinn des Lebens oder der Hitliste der Tiernahrungsmultis auseinander. Wer sich in urbaner Umgebung dennoch seinen persönlichen Kleinzoo halten möchte kann sich neuerdings Betontiere bestellen (Siehe oben). Die Tierskulpturen der Künstlerin Andrea Heyer sind sowohl instinktiv vertraut putzig und gleichzeitig globale Anspielung.

www.andreaheyer.at

Space Invaders is an arcade video game designed by Toshihiro Nishikado in 1978. It was originally manufactured by Taito and licensed for production in the U.S. by the Midway division of Bally. Released (at first in its native Japan) in 1978, it ranks as one of the most influential video games ever created. Though simplistic by today's standards, it was one of the forerunners of modern video gaming.

Today the Space Invaders are also part of street-art, stencil guerilla and so on. Discover the World of Space Ivaders!

SPACE INVADERS