ART CITIES, Page 49
Friedrich Kunath is known for his paintings and sculpture dealing with music, loss, fear, and other universal themes. His work explores interior sensation, recontextualization and abstraction, and oppositional relationships that propel emotional experience. Within his painting, installation, and sculpture, images and objects build upon themselves in a layered stream of …
Minimalism can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of …
An annual group exhibition is conceived in the context of the Regionale, a cross-border cooperation of 18 institutions in France, Germany, and …
Today, news reports on the disparate conflicts in Middle East and Arab world constantly remind us of the complexity of the region’s …
Although John Currin is often accused of misogynistic tendencies due to his subject matter, he contends his presentations are intended as satirical …
During the last ten years, Robert Longo has created several important photorealistic cycles. The selection of themes is political. They have their …
For 50 years, Thomas Joshua Cooper has been making photographs outdoors. Often realized through intense physical travel to remote and isolated sites, …
Derek Jarman (1942-94) was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener, political activist and author. He was educated at the …
One of the leading German artists of the post-war period, Imi Knoebel’s wide-ranging and rigorous oeuvre incorporates drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, projections …
The films, drawings and other works by Tacita Dean are extremely original. Her recent film portraits express something that neither painting nor …
Leo Villareal works with LED lights to create complex, rhythmic artworks for both gallery and public settings. He focuses on identifying the …
Incorporating sculpture, installation, video and performance, Bronwyn Katz’s practice engages with the concept of land as a repository of memory, reflecting on …
Climate change is often seen through a policy or scientific lens, and solutions are discussed only in political offices, boardrooms and negotiating …
Since graduating from Yale in 1989, Matthew Barney has made a rapid impact on the art world. In 1994 Barney embarked on …
Brice Marden continuously refines and extends the traditions of lyrical abstraction. Experimenting with self-imposed rules, limits, and processes, and drawing inspiration from …
Eva Hesse was one of the icons of American art in the 1960s, her work being a major influence on subsequent generations …
Rashid Johnson is renowned for challenging the assumptions often present in collective notions of blackness. Johnson is among an influential, core group …
Renowned for his wry marriages of everyday subjects with raw physical matter, Matt Johnson’s sculptures explore the paradox of visual forms through …
Mary Corse has built a practice that occupies an independent space at the intersection of minimalist painting, Abstract Expressionism and scientific inquiry. …
Lee Bul is considered one of the foremost women artists from Asia to emerge in the international art scene in the 1990s. …
Irving Penn was one of the most important and influential photographers of the 20th Century. In a career that spanned almost 70years, …
Throughout his career, Gerhard Richter has remained at the forefront of contemporary abstraction and image-making, embracing haptic process and technological advancements in …
![Left: Allan Sekula, Replica of door to blacksmiths’ shed, in situ (original in collection of Warsaw Ethnographic Museum.) Ochojno, Poland July, 2009, detail from “Polonia and Other Fables”, Right: Allan Sekula, Art Isn’t Fair, 2012, (video still) [detail]](http://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/003-332x157.jpg)
Allan Sekula revitalized documentary photography, provided critical foundations for theorizing the relationship between word and image, and was one of the earliest …
Yukinori Yanagi focuses on large-scale and site-specific installations that interrogate the politics of institutional borders and boundaries often drawing from systems of …
