ART CITIES, Page 56
Sheela Gowda is an artist living and working in Bangalore, India. She began painting in her early career but started to make three-dimensional work in the 1990s in reaction to the rapid progress of economic and cultural development in India. For Sheela Gowda the transformative ritual that occurs during a …
Two concurrent solo exhibitions of Gerwald Rockenschaub and Sylvie Fleury are on presentation at Thaddaeus Ropac’s Gallery in London that is housed …
Guy Yanai’s paintings are characterized by bold colors, simplified shapes, and a shallow depth of field. He often chooses everyday objects and …
Jean-Michel Othoniel shows a fondness for materials with reversible properties. He started out, at the beginning of the 1990s, with works made …
In February 1983, Monika Sprüth opened her first gallery in Cologne, in order to introduce a group of young women artists she …
Working at the boundary between abstraction and representation, Shara Hughes’ approach blends memory, association and imagination to encourage new ways of exploring …
XU ZHEN®’s provocative aesthetics relies on both conceptual and pop strategies. He first undertook behavioral and cultural experiments as an autonomous artist …
A pioneer of performance and video art, Joan Jonas works in video, installation, sculpture, and drawing, often collaborating with musicians and dancers …
Günther Förg and Julian Lethbridge come from two worlds – Förg working and teaching at the University in Karlsruhe and later at …
Widely considered as the most influential composer of our time, John Cage’s inventive and unorthodox approach revolutionised contemporary music and his influence …
Johan Creten started working with clay from the late 80s, when the medium was still a taboo in the art world. Earth …
For fifty years, Dan Graham has traced the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants. With a practice that encompasses curating, writing, …
![Spencer Finch, Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA, August 28, 2004) [Detail], 2004, 100 fluorescent lights, filters, clothespins, Dimensions variable, © Spencer Finch, Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery](http://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/0021-332x192.jpg)
Spencer Finch is best known for light installations that visualise his experience of natural phenomena. His investigations into the nature of light, …
Allan Sekula revitalized documentary photography, provided critical foundations for theorizing the relationship between word and image, and was one of the earliest …
Sherrie Levine’s methods of appropriating and citing the works of important 20th Century male artists established her as a consequential artist of …
Born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley (lying generally to the east of Los Angeles), Patrick Martinez’s L.A. suburban upbringing and …
Combining the laboratory and the studio, chemical experiments and performances, Hicham Berrada creates a personal universe that plays on the codes and …
Strongly influenced by his background as both an artist and a scientist, Hicham Berrada combines intuition and knowledge, science and poetry. He …
Edgar Sarin caught the eye of the public and art professionals right from the start thanks to his “Lifetime Concessions”, sealed artworks …
Renowned for his paintings, drawings, and prints, as well as his innovative architectural constructions, Shusaku Arakawa was one of the earliest practitioners …
Lodged between Op Art and Minimalism, Rana Begum’s works draw their inspiration from repetitive geometric patterns found within Islamic art and urban …
Stephen Antonakos was a pioneer in introducing neon into the realm of art, giving it new perceptual and formal meanings. Around 1960, …
The practice of Jim Shaw spans a wide range of artistic media and visual imagery. Since the 1970s, Shaw has mined the …
The evolution of Conceptual Art overlapped with the end of the gold standard in the USA in 1971, and since then, the …
