ART CITIES, Page 21
Often focused on the head and shoulders of an individual, a portrait typically seeks to convey something of a person’s personality and inner life through the treatment of their form and environment. In ink, pencil, charcoal and paint, the artist captures the subtleties of their subject’s facial features and expressions …
The Romanian-German artist Miron Schmückle is among the singular protagonists of contemporary art. Growing up in Romania under Ceaușescu, already as a …
Borrowing instruments and strategies from the practices of the sculptor, the writer and the typographer, British artist Michael Dean investigates the relationship …
Dividing her time between Germany and Korea since the mid-1990s, Haegue Yang has been gathering inspiration from a wide range of social, …
Holdings illustrate the continued endurance of ceramics alongside works exemplifying movements that sought to release the medium of clay from its functional …
The international group exhibition “Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat” looks at the meaning of the human breast in culture, society, and art history. …
In the late 1960s in Korea when the limited knowledge of arts overseas was available, Shim Moon-Seup , with an urge to …
Antony Gormley is acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His …
Selma Selman’s artistic process echoes the older tradition of a polymath artist ethically synthesizing technological and ecological tools to resolve the conflicts …
Considered one of the leading figures in figurative painting, Guillaume Bresson is known for his resolutely contemporary scenes, reinvesting a mode of …
Yoshitomo Nara is a pioneering figure in contemporary art whose signature style, which expresses figures in a range of emotional complexities from …
Tom Friedman is a conceptual artist known for his meticulously fabricated work, including sculpture, painting, drawing, video, and installation. Friedman investigates the …
Widely celebrated as one of the most influential figurative painters working today, Neo Rauch has gained international acclaim for richly colored and …
Cole Sternberg’s practice contemplates humanity’s existential quandary: that of being hopelessly destructive, yet forever and inevitably linked with nature. Through varied media …
Emerging alongside a notable group of African-American artists who rose to prominence in the ‘90s, Nari Ward’s massive and tactile approach to …
Gary Hume is best known for his figurative and abstract paintings on aluminum panels, which often feature startling color combinations made with …
With a career spanning over seven decades, Barbara Chase-Riboud’s innovation in sculptural technique and materiality is characterised by the interplay between folds …
Ghada Amer is best known for her subversive embroidered paintings that appropriate imagery from pornographic magazines as a means of creating an …
Through her films and installations, Marine Hugonnier explores the way ideologies, desires, and discourses converge in the forms of artistic representation. Her …
A sound performer, musician, and composer, Tarek Atoui challenges conventional modes of sound perception by creating custom electronic instruments, rooted in his …
Ad Reinhardt was one of the most relentless defenders of the purity of abstraction. “The one object of fifty years of abstract …
Sonia Gomes’ production develops from materials such as fabrics, lines, threads and objects. Along with the layers of fabrics and trimmings, techniques …
A Brazilian artist of Indigenous descent, Francisco da Silva, known as Chico da Silva or simply “Chico”, was painting fantastical universes on …
Throughout his four-decade long career, Henry Taylor has consistently and simultaneously embraced and rejected the tenets of traditional painting, as well as …
