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Moe Satt, Bicycle Tire Rolling Event from Yangon: Bank of Innya Lake, 2013, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Silent for A While

After decades of silence, Myanmar’s artists have a chance to speak. In April 2012, national elections were held in the country for the first time since 1962, ending 50-plus years of military dictatorship. Some of the older generation, bearing physical and psychic scars from undergoing arrest, imprisonment, and exile, emerged …

Nicholas Hlobo, Ingilosi (detail), 2015, Lehmann Maupin Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Nicholas Hlobo

Using materials as metaphor, Nicholas Hlobo blends innovation with tradition, probing with healing, and irreverence with respect. The artist creates works on …

Ernesto Neto, Yubẽ bushka (detail), 2016, KUVA, Photo: Petri Virtanen, Kansallisgalleria, Finnish National Gallery

ART PREVIEW:Ernesto Neto at Kiasma

Through his formal vocabulary, Ernesto Neto engages with the idea of social interaction. Ernesto Neto has gained acclaim for his large experimental …

Mark Leckey, GreenScreenRefrigeratorAction, 2010 © Mark Leckey Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown's enterprise

ART PREVIEW:Life Itself

Ever since the days of Aristotle, life itself has remained a mystery, in spite of countless attempts by scientists and philosophers to …

Guy Mees, Espace Perdu, 1964, Collecion M HKA, Photo M HKA

ART-PRESENTATION: The Gap

Focusing on the notion of Abstraction in 20th Century and Contemporary Belgian art and the varying sources of influence and inspiration among …

Tetsumi Kudo, Garden of the Metamorphosis in the Space Capsule, 1968, © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2015 / Estate of Tetsumi Kudo, Hiroko Kudo

ART-PRESENTATION: Tetsumi Kudo

Tetsumi Kudo throughout his life and career remained an eccentric and enigmatic figure in postwar art. He remained particularly Japanese, while his …