ART CITIES, Page 59
The point of departure of the exhibition “Architecture Effects” is the reappraisal of a timeless question “What makes architecture more than just building?” Pioneering in its use of digital technology in its design, construction, and image circulation, the building of Guggenheim Museum Bilbao was both a product and emblem of …
The title of the exhibition “A Tooth for an Eye”, at Kunsthalle Basel, is borrowed from a song title that reimagines the …
Though Fernand Léger built his reputation as a Cubist, his style varied considerably from decade to decade, fluctuating between figuration and abstraction …
Born in 1961 in Geneva, where she continues to live and work, Sylvie Fleury emerged in the early 90’s as a significant …
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven strategically uses her initials as if they were a global corporate brand. The point of departure of the oeuvre …
John Bock uses the form of performance as artistic medium, combining theater, video, installation and sculpture. Most of his early actions or …
Working within the vein of assemblage, Brent Wadden makes paintings by piecing together his hand-woven weavings to create large scale, hard-edge geometric …
Over the past three decades Lisa Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young …
The American filmmaker and artist Leslie Thornton creates vigorously experimental film and video. All her work delves into the mystery and ongoing …
Bridget Riley may be best known for her analysis of optical phenomena in geometrical black and white paintings that define her starting …
Hideaki Kawashima was born in Aichi, Japan in 1969, after graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 1991, Kawashima undertook two years of …
The son of the Surrealist painter Roberto Echaurren Matta, Gordon Matta-Clark was educated as an architect, but was drawn away from the …
If Karl Marx’s theory of surplus-value is his most revolutionary contribution to economic science, his discovery of the basic long-term “Laws of …
Anna Bjerger’s paintings, which hide aluminium panels, get down a type of 21st Century photo-based impressionism that pushes far beyond the usual …
Blair Thurman’s influences range from Pop art and Minimalism to relics from childhood, popular music, and 1970s cinema. His standardized forms, pulled …
Zoe Leonard was born in Liberty, New York, in 1961. At age sixteen, she dropped out of high school and began to …
Often referred to as a Downtown Renaissance man, Spencer Sweeney’s ever-shifting and versatile practice moves across genres and styles within visual art, …
Since he graduated from the Regional School of Art in Rennes in 2010, Jean-Marie Appriou has created a substantial body of work …
Inextricably entwining the experience of the ordinary with the sublime, Friedrich Kunath’s work explores interior sensation, recontextualization and abstraction, and oppositional relationships …
The Moderna Exhibition is a recurring exhibition format featuring between 30 and 50 artists. Once every four years, the visitors are invited …
Zheng Bo is an artist, writer, and teacher, committed to socially and ecologically engaged art. He investigates the past and imagines the …
Ellsworth Kelly has been a widely influential force in the post-war art world. He first rose to critical acclaim in the 1950s …
A realignment of resources, technologies, and energies is taking place in the world right now. The intimation of this emergent ensemble, however, …
Hardly any other Iranian artist won acclaim as quickly as Shirin Neshat at the end of the 90s, her work, which has …
