PRESENTATION, Page 84
Günther Förg was as equally influential on the 20TH Century German art scene as, for example, Martin Kippenberger. He produced photographs and paintings, as well as wall paintings, sculptures, and reliefs. In the 1980s and ’90s Förg’s work was continually reinterpreted: initially considered a postmodernist, he was later seen as …
Rina Banerjee’s work is made from materials sourced throughout the world. She is a voracious gatherer of objects, in a single sculpture …
The impact of Mimmo Rotella (7/10/1918-8/1/2006) was one of the pioneering artists of the 20th Century is evidently present throughout contemporary landscapes …
Yves Zurstrassen’s work is always moving, going from Lyrical Abstraction to Abstract Expressionism and vice versa. The artist develops a singular creating …
Founded as The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy in 1862, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is the sixth-oldest public Art Museum in the United …
Born and educated in Vienna, Birgit Jürgenssen died prematurely at the age of fifty-four. Her artwork received scant attention during her lifetime; …
More than just an exhibition, but a workshop for study and debate on themes and issues associated with our relationship with technology …
Nina Beier is based in Berlin. Her work unfolds the histories enmeshed with serially produced objects and materials. She is drawn to …
A painter and sculptor, George Segal came to be recognized primarily for his life-size white plaster sculptures made from casts taken from …
Tacita Dean is one of the most important artists working today. Her subject matter is often historical, touching on memory and empathy, …
In preparation for the 100th anniversary of The Laughing Cow® in 2021, Lab’Bel, the Artistic Laboratory of the Bel Group, launched a …
An artist trained as an architect, Tomás Saraceno deploys insights from engineering, physics, chemistry, aeronautics and materials science in his work. He …
Minimalism emerged in New York in the early 1960s among artists who were self-consciously renouncing recent art they thought had become stale …
Ana Mendieta was a Cuban born artist whose practice included sculpture, performance, photography, film, video, drawing and site-specific installation. Her works refer …
Following the waves of Minimalism and Conceptual art at the end of the 20th Century, Jean-Michel Basquiat stood out as a figurative …
Metahaven’s work encompasses the practices of filmmaking, writing, design, and installation, and is united conceptually by interests in poetry, storytelling, digital superstructures, …
Born in 1978 Christodoulos Panayiotou comes from the island of Cyprus, a territory steeped in a tense history between Greece and Turkey. …
The title of the exhibition “A Short Century: MACBA Collection” proposes a word play with the expression coined by British Marxist historian …
Based in London and Berlin, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have worked as a collaborative duo since the mid-1990s. Drawing from disciplines …
Devan Shimoyama’s paintings are armed with a dazzle of materials including glitter, rhinestones and impasto paint, with forms emerging and reforming from …
![Sarah Sze, First Time (Half-life) [detail], 2018, Oil paint, acrylic paint, archival paper, UV stabilizers, adhesive, tape, ink, acrylic polymers, shellac, and water-based primer on wood, 213.4 × 266.7 × 10.2 cm, © Sarah Sze, Photo: Mike Barnett](http://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/XZZjSbYf4oFr_2340x1316-332x332.jpg)
Sarah Sze’s work attempts to navigate and model the ceaseless proliferation of information and objects in contemporary life. Incorporating elements of painting, …
The performance and installation artist James Lee Byars challenged the post-war art world with a poetic attitude animated by three separate motifs: …
Yazid Oulab was born in Constantine region of Algeria. At the age of 22, he decided to study art and joined the …
In his writing, “Global Groove and Video Commune” (1970), Nam June Paik proposed the concept, “Commons” by which he meant a video …
