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Michael E. Smith uses cast-offs, waste and other remnants of our globalised consumer society. In his studio, the artist generates material sketches …

Matthew Day Jackson’s interdisciplinary practice explores a myriad of aspects of human experience and draws from sources that reveal both our intrinsic …

Robert Gober rose to prominence in the mid-80s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. …

The Edo period (1615-1868), is a period of great significance in Japan’s history. At the beginning of the 17th Century, the country …

Found in a cave near Bethlehem and now in the collection of the British Museum, the sculpture known as “Ain Sahkri Lovers” …

Martial Raysse is a well known French artist, famous for his distinctive approach in painting and his recognizable imagery. Raysse began to …

In the mid-1940s, Art Movements in Argentina began to reinterpret and develop the European Concrete Art. These artists said that figurative, representational …

The term “Concrete Art” was coined in 1930 by Theo van Doesburg when he started the group Art Concrete in Paris. They …

Working in the red thin line between different cultures, Takashi Murakami has stated that the artist is someone who understands the borders …

After a brief stint at seminary and meteorological training in the military, Dan Flavin pursued his artistic studies in the late 1950s …

Isaac Julien is as acclaimed for his fluent, arresting films as his vibrant and inventive gallery installations. One of the objectives of …

Kimsooja’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial …

The work of Rachel Howard navigates the space between the abstract and the figurative, with paintings that explore the fragility of the …

While Catherine Christer Hennix is best known as a sound artist and composer, and for works including Illuminatory Sound Environments and Infinity …

STUK works from within the dynamic university town of Leuven in Belgium and considers the social context art arises from as an …

Anselm Kiefer’s body of work represents a microcosm of collective memory, visually encapsulating a broad range of cultural, literary, and philosophical allusions, …

Jasper Johns’s groundbreaking exhibition at the Leo Castelli Gallery (20/1-8/2/1958) of his famous target and flag works changed the current of New …

Dan Levenson has created a fictional and immersive narrative about a community of Swiss artists at the now-defunct State Art Academy, Zrich …

Bridget Riley is well-known since the mid-1960s for her distinctive, optically vibrant paintings, called “Op Art”. She characterised her work to the …

Kohei Nawa is at the forefront of a new generation of Japanese creative minds, grouped in an old sandwich factory located outside …

One of the most prolific artists of her generation, Kiki Smith creates a multifaceted body of work that addresses the philosophical, social …

Lygia Pape was an influential iconoclast Brazilian artist and pioneering member of the postwar Avant-Garde. She worked across an expansive range of …

Günther Förg was part of the post-war generation of German artists for whom modernism had become tainted with the horrors of Fascism. …

Mohamed Bourouissa is known for his direct, imposing color photographs of young people, immigrants, and everyday life in the Paris suburbs. Bourouissa …