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Helen Marden, Forward (detail), 2020, Resin, powdered paint, and shells on linen, 50 × 50 inches (127 × 127 cm, © Helen Marden. Photo: Robert McKeever, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:N.York-Helen Marden

In 1971 Helen Marden took Brice to Hydra for the first time. It was here that Marden was at his most prolific. In the meantime, Helen has played her own part in the island’s preservation. When Richard Branson tried to build a luxury resort in the Island, she joined the …

Kwon Young-woo, Untitled, 1986, Gouache, Chinese ink on Korean paper, 39 3/8 x 31 5/8 inches, © Kwon Young-woo, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe Gallery

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Kwon Young-woo

A decade older than Lee Ufan and the other artists associated with Dansaekhwa, Kwon Young-woo’s practice was fundamental to the development of …

Tariku Shiferaw, Cranes in the Sky (Solange) [detail], 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches (182.9 x 152.4 cm), © Tariku Shiferaw, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong & Co.

ART CITIES:N.York-Tariku Shiferaw

Tariku Shiferaw is known for his practice of mark-making that explores the metaphysical ideas of painting and societal structures. This formal language …

Sam Falls, Night Rain, Morning Mist (Autumn), 2020, Pigment on canvas; 2 parts, Painting 1: 170.5 x 160.5 x 3 cm / 67 1/8 x 63 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches, Painting 2: 170.5 x 316.5 x 3 cm / 67 1/8 x 124 5/8 x 1 1/8 inches, Total dims.: 170.5 x 477 x 3 cm / 67 1/8 x 187 3/4 x 1 1/8 inches, © Sam Falls, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber

ART CITIES:Zurich-Sam Falls

Sam Falls’ work is inspired by the beauty, unpredictability, and ferocity of nature, and attempts to, as he says, “Traverse issues of …

Installation view “Dan Flavin - title “monument” for V. Tatlin, Galerie kamel mennour-Paris, Courtesy Galerie kamel mennour

ART CITIES:Paris-Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin’s work is clean, industrially produced, and serially repeating. These qualities were developed in opposition to the gestural expressionist painting dominant …

Rebecca Warren, Pas De Deux 2005, Mixed media vitrine and Perspex, 18 × 54⅜ × 11¼ inches; 46 × 138 × 29 cm, © Rebecca Warren, Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Rebecca Warren

Rebecca Warren is a sculptor working in a variety of materials, including clay, bronze, and steel. She also constructs vitrines and wall-based …

Installation view of the exhibition: Leu Art Family, 2021, ©Museum Tinguely; Photo: Daniel Spehr

ART CITIES:Basel-Leu Art Family

The mummy of Otzi, was discovered accidentally by hikers in 1991, together with his clothing and equipment, on the east ridge of …

William Kentridge, Pocket Drawings 187-241 (2016). 3 run lithographic print on 63 panels, mounted on cotton fabric. Edition of 25 + 3AP. 80.3 x 98.1 cm; 94.6 x 112.4 x 7 cm (incl. frame). © William Kentridge, Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-William Kentridge

William Kentridge’s engagement with printmaking has been integral to his artistic practice and spans his entire career. He has experimented with a …

Paulo Monteiro, Untitled, 2020, Oil on linen, 66 7/8 x 90 1/2 inches / 169.9 x 229.9 cm, © Paulo Monteiro, courtesy the artist and Lévy Gorvy Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Paulo Monteiro

Monteiro continues his ongoing reconciliation of the dual forms of painting and sculpture by constructing a narrative between them. Continuously exploring the …

Giuseppe Penone

ART CITIES:N.York-Giuseppe Penone

Long related to developments in sculpture in the 60s and 70s, and to Arte Povera, Giuseppe Penone’s work retains its own distinctive …

Left: Uwe Wittwer, Im Walde (In the Woods), 2020, glass, painted and burned, painted metal stand, 200 x 150 cm, (recto, painted side), © Uwe Wittwer, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann Center: Uwe Wittwer, Wandstück (Wallpiece), 2020, oil on canvas, 82 x 72 cm, framed, © Uwe Wittwer, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann Right: Uwe Wittwer, Schatten über Schatten (Shadows over Shadows), 2020, charcoal on paper, 192 x 145 cm, framed, © Uwe Wittwer, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann

ART CITIES:Zurich-Uwe Wittwer

Since the beginning of his career in the middle of the eighties, Uwe Wittwer’s works have been questioning the truth behind images …

ART CITIES:N.York-Zach Harris

Zach Harris’s carved panel paintings unfold complex utopian and dystopian worlds. His psychedelic visions, which almost verge on abstraction, immerse viewers in …

Simon Fujiwara Who the Bær, 2020, © Simon Fujiwara, Courtesy the artist, Dvir Gallery-Tel Aviv/ Brussels, GioMARCONI-Milan Taro Nasu-Tokyo, Esther Schipper-Berlin

ART CITIES:Milan-Simon Fujiwara

Over the past decade, Simon Fujiwara has become known for his staging of large, complex exhibitions that explore the deeply rooted mechanisms …

Cindy Sherman

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Cindy Sherman

Since the late 1970s, Sherman has been photographing herself in guises inspired by stereotypes and characters from mass media, everyday life and …

Lucas Blalock, Reverse Titanic / Hell is in the Air, 2019, Dye sublimation print on aluminum, 150 x 175.5 cm / 59 x 69 inches, © Lucas Blalock, Courtesy the artist and Gallery Eva Presenhuber

ART CITIES:N York-Lucas Blalock

The eccentric, surreal images of Lucas Blalock are products of both analogue and digital technologies. Using a large-format camera, he takes photographs …