ART CITIES, Page 66
Like many brilliant artists, Robert Colescott was a complicated man. He explored the social questions of our times with both seriousness and wit. His controversial topics ranged from the mundane to the profound, touching on race, history, sex, and power. The work for which Colescott became especially well known are …
You may know Frank Thiel through his photographs of the transformation of Berlin from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. These representations of …
Senga Nengudi is one of the seminal conceptual and performance artists of our time, she emerged as part of a group of …
Adam McEwen’s work resides somewhere between the celebratory and funereal. After writing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph in London, he began producing …
The Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes fuses modernist styles of painting with the emblems of her cultural heritage. Her abstract compositions are typically …
Alex Mirutziu is a Romanian artist whose practice extends over a wide range of media and activities, including: writing, photography, media-critical video …
Arlene Shechet isknown for her sculptures that defy categotization. Some are figurative, some are architectural, and others resemble melting vessels or growing …
Through his long, and ongoing, career Gianfranco Baruchello has tackled a vast array of mediums spanning from painting to video via experiments …
A multidisciplinary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto works with photography, sculpture, architecture and installation. A photographer since the ‘70s, his work deals with history …
Traversing a wide range of media, from collage to performance, Haegue Yang’s body of work often features quotidian and domestic found objects …
Roe Ethridge is known for exploring the plastic nature of photography, how pictures can be easily replicated and recombined to create new …
Torbjørn Rødland constructs portraits, still-lifes and landscapes, which simultaneously inhabit and defamiliarise the realm of the everyday. Embedded with multiple symbols and …
Like many brilliant artists, Robert Colescott was a complicated man. He explored the social questions of our times with both seriousness and …
Fernando Palma Rodriguez typically uses visual motifs of nature, constructed with found manufactured materials such as scrap metal and often animating these …
Matthew Porter is part of a large group of contemporary artists pushing the boundaries of traditional photographic techniques and blurring the lines …
The stock market crash and mass unemployment, political polarization, the industrialization of perception, the violence of colonialism: “c. 1930” was a time …
Antony Gormley work investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture …
James Casebere belongs to a generation of artists who have questioned the veracity of images from the beginning and for whom a …
The project “Talismans. The desert between us is only sand”, taking the form of an exhibition at Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris, …
Jonas Wood takes the motifs of interior domestic spaces and landscapes as his subject, using a range of formal techniques to create …
Chris Huen Sin Kan’s work is the contemporary style of en plein air. Each painting is a scene of a frozen moment …
Per Kirkeby is not only a leading painter, sculptor and printmaker, but also a prolific writer, poet, and filmmaker. Entrenched in the …
In her sculptures, photographs and collages, Nicole Wermers connects formal considerations with a discussion about urban space and its social, economical and …
Growing up in Japan, Shio Kusaka had little interest in art. But her grandmother led traditional tea ceremonies, and those rituals helped …
