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Small World Big Cities: Jim Avignon

Jim Avignon Small World Big Cities, MaHalla Berlin

Berlin in a nutshell. Street artist and musician Jim Avignon showed his exhibition “Small World Big Cities” at MaHalla. Stage designs on display at a unique event location. And those who hadn’t seen the conceptual artist with his one man band Neoangin yet, could now watch him live painting. To the beat of the music and surrounded by art lovers. Although working speed and style of his early pieces resemble street art, the works of Jim Avignon have long outgrown the streets and clubs of Berlin…

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Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal

Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal

You’ve surely met Nancy many times on your way across the S’Hort del Rei. Alexander Calder donated the kinetic sculpture to the city of Palma almost fifty years ago. I have always loved his playful objects and the weightlessness of his fancy mobiles. So I was thrilled when a friend invited me to visit Calder’s exhibition „Minimal / Maximal“ at the recently reopened Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The museum building designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is a piece of art itself. A prominent…