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Jan Fabre, Sexy Orgue de Barbarie Belge (Sexy Street Organ), 2017, Series: Belgian Sexual Folklore, Published and Offered By Jan Fabre, The Good Belgian Artist, Wood, pigment, paper, polymer, metal, electronics, 146,6 x 145,2 x 42,1 cm, Photo: Pat Verbrueggen, ©Angelos bvba, Courtesy Templon-Paris/Brussels

ART-PRESENTATION: Jan Fabre

Jan Fabre lives and works in his native city, Antwerp. He is known for his powerful figurative or abstract drawings executed in blue ballpoint and his sculptures fraught with surface ornament. Fabre’s early drawings and sculptures of the 1970s reveal his abiding interest in performance art. Fabre’s works, which treat …

Miquel Barceló, Ce matin tôt, 2015, Mixed media on canvas, 60 x 81 cm, © Miquel Barceló, Photo:Ulrich Ghezzi, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:Salzburg-Miquel Barceló

As one of the most important representatives of Spanish contemporary art, Miquel Barceló is drawing inspiration from Diego Velázquez and art-making practices …

Giovanni Anselmo, Particolare, 1986-2018, © Giovanni Anselmo, Courtesy the artist and Bernier/Eliades Gallery

ART CITIES:Athens-Giovanni Anselmo

Today one of Italy’s most internationally acclaimed artists, Giovanni Anselmo first emerged as part of the Arte Povera Movement during the second …

Cecilia Vicuña, Caracol Azul (Blue Snail), 2017, Dyed wool, Dimensions variable, © Cecilia Vicuña, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Cecilia Vicuña

Cecilia Vicuña is a poet, visual artist, filmmaker and political activist, Her multi-dimensional works begin as a poem, image, object, or line, …

Left: Julian Schnabel, March, 2017, Inkjet print and oil on polyester, 223.5 cm x 172.7 cm, Photo: Tom Powel Imaging No. 67747, © Julian Schnabel / ARS-New York / DACS 2018, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery. Right: Julian Schnabel, May, 2017, Inkjet print and oil on polyester, 223.5 cm x 172.7 cm, Photo: Tom Powel Imaging No. 67748, © Julian Schnabel / ARS-New York / DACS 2018, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Julian Schnabel

The 1960s and 1970s witnessed what has been termed the “dematerialization” of the art object. By contrast, the 1980s were characterized by …

Pedro Gómez-Egaña, The Common Ancestor (Detail), 2018, Installation, © Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Courtesy the artist and Zilberman Gallery-Istanbul/Berlin

ART CITIES:Berlin-Pedro Gómez Egaña

Pedro Gómez-Egaña’s video works and installations engage discourses around historical and contemporary technologies in relation to chronopolitics as well as the politics …

ART CITIES:Luxemburg-Christoph Meier

While the situations staged by Christoph Meier are characterized by an abstract, geometrical formal vocabulary, the objects used appear to represent a …

Exhibition View, Jan Fabre, The Appearance and Disappearance of Antwerp / Bacchus / Christ (2016), Special creations for The State Hermitage Museum, Galerie Templon-Brussels 2018, Photo: © Isabelle Arthuis, Courtesy Galerie Templon-Paris/Brussels

ART CITIES:Brussels-Jan Fabre

For more than 35 years Jan Fabre has been one of the most innovative and important figures on the international contemporary art …

Enrico David, Racket II (Detail), 2017, Jesmonite, patinated steel, 60 1/4 x 30 1/4 x 17 3/4 inches, © Enrico David, Courtesy Blum & Poe Gallery

ART CITIES:Los Angeles -Enrico David

Enrico David’s work encompasses painting, sculpture, textiles and installation with the act of drawing being key to his exploration of form. Mining …

Installation image, Richard Long, EARTH SKY, Houghton Hall, 30 April - 26 October 2017, Photographer and Copyright: Pete Huggins

ART CITIES:London-Richard Long

Richard Long is one of Britain’s leading conceptual artists. His work explores interventions in the landscape, tracking and documenting alterations to the …

Mary Corse

ART CITIES:London-Mary Corse

Mary Corse is associated with the 1960s Light & Space Movement, and is primarily known for her minimalist, monochromatic paintings, which explore …

Dave Muller, Sex & Death & Rock & Roll, Installation view, 2018, Blum & Poe-New York, Photo: Genevieve Hanson, Blum & Poe Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Dave Muller

A deejay and musician, Dave Muller maps his ongoing relationship with the past, present, and future of music, using record collections, musical …

Ian Cheng, EMISSARY FORKS AT PERFECTION, 2015, Live simulation and story, infinite duration, colour, sound, Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias-London

ART CITIES:Berlin-Ian Cheng

Ian Cheng explores the nature of mutation and the capacity of humans to relate to change. Drawing on principles of video game …

Josh Smith Eva Presenhuber, New York

ART CITIES:N.York-Josh Smith

Josh Smith first became known in the early 2000s for a series of canvases depicting his own name, a motif that allowed …

Left: Domenico Gnoli, Chair, 1969, Acrylic and sand on canvas, 160 x 160 cm, © Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York/SIAE-Rome, Private Collection, Courtesy Luxembourg & Dayan-New York. Right: Domenico Gnoli, Curl, 1969, Acrylic and sand on canvas, 139 x 120 cm, © Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York/SIAE-Rome, Private Collection, Courtesy Luxembourg & Dayan-New York

ART CITIES:N.York-Domenico Gnoli

Domenico Gnoli was an Italian painter, illustrator and stage designer. Despite the fact that his father, an art critic, first introduced him …

Anselm Kiefer, Uraeus, 2017-18, Lead, stainless steel, 757 x 1120 x 880 cm, © Anselm Kiefer, Photo: Georges Poncet, Courtesy Gagosian, Public Art Fund, and Tishman Speyer

ART CITIES:N.York-Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer’s monumental body of work represents a microcosm of collective memory, visually encapsulating a broad range of cultural, literary, and philosophical …