ART CITIES, Page 51
Barbara Kruger’s work with pictures and words has become iconic for the reach of its political and social critique. In only a few words, printed large in uppercase block print, Kruger manages to satirize, denounce, and illuminate the uses of power and force in art, culture, and language. The bold, …
Sydney Shen is an artist of countless obsessions. Scents, video games, torture devices, gore movies, necropastoral literature, history of epidemics, conceptions of …
Yayoi Kusama is the most famous artist to emerge from Japan in the period following World War II. Yayoi Kusama has shaped …
Over the past 60 years, Frank Bowling has relentlessly explored the properties and possibilities of paint. He has experimented with staining, pouring …
The exhibition “REAL WORK” brings together Liz Magic Laser and Candice Breitz highlighting the human aspect of precarious and unrecognised work. Together …
Ed Ruscha’s photography, drawing, painting, and artist books record the shifting emblems of American life in the last half century. His deadpan …
Born in Holland but coming out of the Los Angeles art scene of the 60s and 70s, Bas Jan Ader left us …
Through the construction of light-hearted yet strikingly direct images that refer to socio-political issues relevant to post-colonial, globalized and consumerist societies, Joana …
Born in Belgium from Syrian parents and raised in France, Farah Atassi combines various cultural legacies and formal approaches in the medium …
Zak Ové is a London based multi-disciplinary artist working in film, sculpture and photography to reclaim old world mythologies in new world …
Justin Mortimer’s paintings consistently invite us to question the relationship between subject matter and content, beauty and horror, and between figuration and …
The exhibition “Ed Moses & Qin Feng” at Blain|Southern Gallery in London, places the work of Ed Moses (1926-2018) and Qin Feng …
Through the construction of light-hearted yet strikingly direct images that refer to socio-political issues relevant to post-colonial, globalized and consumerist societies, Joana …
Drawing from traditional Japanese painting, sci-fi, anime, and the global art market, Takashi Murakami creates paintings, sculptures, and films populated by repeated …
Moving fluidly between media, Kohei Nawa’s work explores issues of science and digital culture and examines the relationship between nature and artificiality, …
![Omar Ba, Promenade masquée 1 [Masked Promenade 1], 2016, Acrylic, gouache, oil and pencil on canvas, JMD Collection-Hong Kong. Image courtesy Galerie Templon-Paris/Bruxelles, Photo: B. Huet / Tutti, © Omar Ba, Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery](http://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/BAO_0011_HR-332x332.jpg)
Born in 1977 in Senegal, Omar Ba lives and works in Dakar and Geneva. His paintings, produced using a variety of techniques …
Wu Tsang is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist who combines documentary and narrative techniques with fantastical detours into the imaginary in …
Since the 1990s, Julie Becker’s (1972-2016) multimedia practice has activated vacant interior scenes with psychological resonance. Working in drawing, video, photography and …
Bringing together a community of artists, botanists, and philosophers, the exhibition “Trees” echoes the latest scientific research that sheds new light on …
Derived from the French word “surveiller”, meaning “to keep watch” or “to watch over”, the surveillance camera has been used to police …
The group exhibition “A Body of Work” features drawing, collage, and sculpture by six artists: Julia Brandão, Max Colby, Margaux Crump, Anneli …
Since 2000, the Daimler Art Collection has had its own focus on 20th and 21st Century works that deal with sound/ composition/ …
The exhibition “Minimalism, Postminimalism, and Conceptualism/ 60–70” focuses on the key figures of the art scene in the United States during its …
![Anthony Pearson, Untitled (Embedment) [detail], 2018, Canvas-embedded, pigmented hydrocal in enamel-finished aluminum frame, 146.1 x 55.2 x 5.1 cm, © Anthony Pearson, Courtesy the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery](http://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/007-332x203.jpg)
Anthony Pearson occupies a quietly antithetical position in a contemporary cultural landscape characterized by visual noise and short attention spans. An exploration …
