ART CITIES, Page 62
Teresita Fernández is a contemporary American artist best known for her prominent public installations and experiential large-scale sculptures that evoke striking landscapes. Often inspired by natural wonders, Fernández frequently places importance in her choice of medium, employing gold, graphite, and other minerals that have complicated histories often tied to colonialism. …
Moshekwa Langa grew up in Bakenberg, a remote town in Limpopo, and left in 1989 to attend the Waldorf School near Pretoria. …
Since completing a Ph.D in fine art sculpture from Kyoto City University of Art in 2003, Kohei Nawa has won several awards …
In the group exhibition “Dancing with Myself”, the artist’s own body is the starting point for the act of artistic creation and …
One of the most compelling artists working today, Francis Alÿs offers a thought-provoking point of view on the times in which we …
The project “I Walk therefore We Are” spells out the social-protest aspect of walking and examines the material, historical, and forward-looking significance …
MASBEDO are Nicolò Massazza and Iacopo Bedogni, they live in Milan and work together since 1999, focusing on video art and installations. …
George Loudon is a London-based retired banker, art collector, and author. He began his collection in the late 1970s, he started with …
During the Venice Architecture Biennale, Fondazione Prada presents “Machines à penser”, an exhibition that focuses on three 20th Century philosophers: Theodor W. …
The architecture and formal composition of Henrik Samuelsson’s paintings generate a strong sense of presence, emphasised by an underlying structure of vertical …
Nina Canell’s sculptures and installations are the result of both chance encounters and careful observations. They generate dynamic connections between solid objects …
Renowned for his inventive work with a diverse array of materials and mediums, over the last 25 years Olaf Nicolai has conceived …
As a multi-disciplinary artist, Bronwyn Katz produces installations, sculptures, videos and performances. She takes an interest in contemporary forms of discrimination and …
Akram Zaatari has developed an interdisciplinary practice that combines the roles of image-maker, archivist, curator, and critical theorist. He is concerned with …
Melanie Smith is an artist based in Mexico City. Her work has been characterized by a certain re-reading of the formal and …
Active since the early 1970s, Matt Mullican is one of the leading figures on the International Art Scene, a pioneer in the …
Etel Adnan’s career spans several decades and encompasses a wide range of media as it does traditions and locations. Adnan was first …
Laure Prouvost’s work adopts the form of independent stories that intersect and answer to each other, in which fiction mixes with reality. …
Petrit Halilaj uses his own biography as a point of departure, adopting exhibition processes to alter the course of private and collective …
Erick Meyenberg works at the intersection of drawing, collage, video, data analysis, and sound. His work is grounded in research that uses …
With book “Prometheus the Awakener: An Essay on the Archetypal Meaning of the Planet Uranus” (1995) the cultural historian Richard Tarnas presents …
Philip Taaffe derives inspiration from a variety of sources, including Islamic architecture, Pompeiian mosaics, 1960s Op Art, and 19th Century monographs on …
Leo Villareal works with LED lights to create complex, rhythmic artworks for both gallery and public settings. He focuses on identifying the …
Elizabeth Peyton is best known for her intimate, small-scale portraits of celebrities, friends, and historical figures. Characterized by transparent washes of pigment …
