ART CITIES, Page 68
In her sculptures, photographs and collages, Nicole Wermers connects formal considerations with a discussion about urban space and its social, economical and psychological aspects. Combining references to art history with modern surfaces and materials, the artist explores fine art aesthetics within the design of daily life, specifically the ways it …
Growing up in Japan, Shio Kusaka had little interest in art. But her grandmother led traditional tea ceremonies, and those rituals helped …
Michelangelo Pistoletto believes that artists have as mission to change the world. Since the ‘60s Michelangelo Pistoletto’s work has followed two paths, …
Developing an absolutely personal technique, through the use of sand on canvas, Jennifer Guidi breaks up the distinction between painting and sculpture, …
Originally trained as a scientist, Carsten Höller is frequently inspired by research and experiments from scientific history and deploys these studies in …
The audiovisual exhibition “Shaping Democracy-The Republic in 24 Frames per century” which marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the First …
Markus Amm concentrates on several groups of works at once, alternating between small and large formats, photograms, collages, and oil paintings. At …
Nazgol Ansarinia works with different media which include drawings, collages, sculptures, murals and textile works. She uses them to depict daily urban …
Matthew Ronay’s sculptures bring together a mix of fancifully colored elements that resemble the cogs of machinery or dripping liquids. Ronay’s works …
Cameroon’s largest city, Douala, has had many foreign influences in the past, more recently having experienced an influx of migrants from within …
The exhibition “Aalto Natives” showcases the artist duo Erkka Nissinen and Nathaniel Mellors who represented Finland at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Their …
Chikako Yamashiro is a contemporary video artist and photographer based in Naha, Okinawa exploring the legacies of Japanese colonization in the nineteenth …
As a seminal figure in the movement toward appropriation art, Bertrand Lavier is perhaps best known for his readymades, created by covering …
Addressing existential issues of self and others, Kimsooja’s work spans site-specific installation, performance, video and photography using sound, light and daily objects. …
Jeff Koons is one of of American artists that emerge in the 1980s with an aesthetic devoted to the decade’s pervasive consumer …
The original Whiteleys department store was created by William Whiteley, In 1907, after his murder by Horace George Rayner, who claimed to …
Alex Katz’s portraits feature his own social milieu: friends, fellow artists, and most notably his wife Ada, whom he has painted more …
Sudarshan Shetty initially trained as a painter, later turning to sculpture and installations which now account for all of his practice. A …
Every one of Serra Behar’s works can be evaluated as a concrete reflection of the situations corresponding to a specific period of …
The American artist Lauren Halsey builds fantasy sculptures and environments that remix ephemera she gathers with hyperreal nature, technicolors, outerspace and Funk. …
Marius Bercea is a painter from Cluj, Romania. He finds his subject matter in the clash of aesthetics within the urban environment, …
A prolific artist beginning in the 1950s, Robert Filliou was self-taught, embracing disciplines as diverse as economics (in which he first trained …
Born in Seoul in 1951, Young-Jae Lee studied at the College of Art Education in her native city before moving to Germany …
Kishio Suga was among the prime movers of Mono-ha, an artistic group born in the late 1960s. He began showing his work …
