PRESENTATION, Page 92
Gabriella Boyd mainly works with oil paints on canvas and often creates imagined locations using only colour and line as her guidance. Working from photographs, drawings and recalled memories and observations, Gabriella depicts “Fleeting interactions or moments of failed intimacy”. Building up these imagined locations in painted layers she pushes …
Yinka Shonibare MBE has described himself as a post-colonial hybrid, and his work in painting, sculpture, photography, film, and performance utilizes unexpected …
Umm Kulthum is considered one of the greatest Arab singers who ever lived and most influential singers of the 20th Century. For …
Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham’s project “The Middle Earth”, which occupies the whole space of the Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, and …
Among the artists of Conceptual art’s first wave and one of its most rigorous and inventive figures, Allen Ruppersberg has since the …
Throughout the Arab world, embroidery has been as central to the cultural heritage of the region as calligraphy, the miniature, woodwork, ceramics …
The production processes of Modernist, Post-Modernist and Relational Aesthetics of Turkey is authentic and unique in terms of its geographical location. The …
Andrzej Wróblewski (15/6/1927-23/3/1957), despite his short life, is one of the most important Polish artists of the 20Th Century. Wróblewski was a …
The Solentiname Islands are an archipelago towards the southern end of Lake Nicaragua in the Nicaraguan department of Río San Juan. Consisting …
Jean-Michel Othoniel made sculptures using sulphur and wax in his early work. A turning point in his output came following year when …
The exhibition “Le Paradoxe de l’iceberg” brings together works from the Frac Grand Large/Hauts-de-France Collection that use raw materials subjected to chemical …
After arguing with his friend Al Diaz, Jean-Michel Basquiat declared the death of SAMO© and wrote “SAMO© IS DEAD” on almost every …
Since 1953, the Association of Arts and Culture of the German Economy Federation of German Industries has been awarding the annual ARS …
Cy Twombly ranks among the leading exponents of a generation of artists who broke away from Abstract Expressionism in the ‘50s to …
After arguing with his friend Al Diaz, Jean-Michel Basquiat declared the death of SAMO© and wrote “SAMO© IS DEAD” on almost every …
Sally Ross’s work is equally present and out of time. When looking at her paintings, the artists who come readily to mind …
Lucas Blalock has emerged as one of a new generation of photographers, a group largely concerned with issues of image scale, speed, …
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 …
