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Best of 2012 #art

From a survey of the experiments conducted today by artists using Google Maps, to exhibitions in Venice, Paris, Kobe, New York and Milan, here are this year's best art stories.

Time Space Existence: the Future of Architecture In Venice

Until November 23, 2025, Venice is the global hub for architectural discussion with "Time Space Existence." This biennial exhibition, spearheaded by the European Cultural Centre, features projects from 52 countries, all focused on "Repairing, Regenerating, and Reusing" for a more sustainable future.

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Over the course of the past year, we visited Artificial Topography, an interior landscape by Ryumei Fujiki that transformed a container into a soft space, and in Paris, a 30-hour contemporary art marathon marked the re-opening of the Palais de Tokyo. At Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the first in a series of monographic exhibitions focused on Swiss artist Urs Fischer's tumultuous and often ironic work. In Genk, Manifesta 9's main exhibition focused on our everchanging economic system, and in New York, exhibitions by Tom Sachs and Tomás Saraceno asked us to look at other worlds, leading us to look more closely at our own.

A survey of the experiments conducted today by artists using Google Maps reveal impetuousness and the same high margin of error of the avant-gardes of the past, while in Brazil, Hans Ulrich Obrist reunited works by thirty artists and architects in Lina Bo Bardi's house of glass. In France, Koo Jeong-A's collaboration with l'Escaut architects and some experienced skateboarders gave birth to an invitation to "skate the landscape", while in Los Angeles, an exhibition shed light on the city through its artists. Finally, in Milan, Cyprien Gaillard reads the present through episodes and architecture of the past.

Below are our best art stories of 2012.

Best of 2012 #art
— Artificial Topography
— Palais de Tokyo: (entre)ouverture
— Urs Fischer: Madame Fisscher
— Search and you shall find
— The floating visions of Saraceno and Sachs
— Manifesta 9: The Deep of the Modern
— You're only young once
— Made in L.A. 2012
— Art in the house of glass
— Rubble and revelation

A house turns its back on the road to open up to the landscape

The single-family house project designed by Elena Gianesini engages in a dialogue with the Vicenza landscape, combining tranquility and contemporary style through essential geometries and the Mazzonetto metal roofing.

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