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Nam June Paik (20/7/1932-29/1/2006) is commonly hailed as the “father” of new media art for his discoveries in music, video, performance, television broadcast and technological experimentation. He balanced a Utopian philosophy with a technical pragmatism and a subversive sense of humor, creating works that drew on chance encounters between ideas, …
Cornelia Parker (14/7/1956- ) is well known for her large scale, often site specific, installations. Her engagement with the fragility of existence …
Piero Manzoni (13/7/1933-6/2/1963 )was a pioneering Italian conceptual artist who challenged traditional ideas of art through provocative and unconventional works. He used …
Like other Pop artists, David Hockney (9/7/1937-116/2026) revived figurative painting in a style that referenced the visual language of advertising. What separates …
Chuck Close Close (5/7/1940-19/8/2021) was a leading American artist known for his monumental, photorealistic portraits. He painted friends, family members, and fellow …
Tracey Emin (3/7/1963- ) an English artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind One of the world’s foremost contemporary artists, Sean Scully (30/6/1945-). His work draws on …
Born in Biella, Italy, Michelangelo Pistoletto (25/6/1933- ) was a leading figure in the development of both Arte Povera and conceptual art. …
The painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher Lee Ufan (24/6/1936- ), who came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the …
The contemporary Swiss artist Sylvie Fleury (24/6/1961- ), is known for her mises-en-scène of glamour, fashion and luxury products. Although at first …
Even though his diverse artistic production eludes classification, Rirkrit Tiravanija (21/6/1961- ) has accurately described it as “relational”: a body of work …
Pipilotti (Elisabeth) Rist (21/6/1962 – ). She is best known for creating experimential video art and installations that often portrays self-portraits and …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Juan Muñoz (17/6/1953-28/8/2001). Regarded as one of the most important sculptors of his generation, …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind the American artist John Baldessari (17/6/1931-2/1/2020), a major figure in Contemporary Art, John Baldessari …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Jim Dine (16/6/1935- ). He created a vocabulary out of subjects that have a …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (13/6/1935-31/5/2020). Whereas Land Artists usually made a point of blurring the …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Damien Hirst (7/6/1965- ), since emerging onto the international art scene in the late …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Jesús Rafael Soto (5/6/1923-14/1/2005). Soto’s work is characterized by optical illusions and movement making …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind the American artist Donald Judd (3/6/1928-12/2/1994), associated with Minimalism. In his work, Judd sought …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind the British artist Richard Long RA CBE (2/6/1945- ). He is an English sculptor …
Julio Le Parc (23/9/1928-30/5/2026) was an Argentine-born artist whose pioneering experiments with light, movement, perception, and viewer participation made him one of …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Ellsworth Kelly (31/5/1923-27/12/2015), one of America’s great 20th Century Abstract artists, who in the …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Carmen Herrera (31/5/1915-12/2/2022), she has been painting since her youth in Cuba, but it …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Agnès Varda, (30/5/1928-29/3/2019) the French director and photographer whose first film, “La Pointe Courte” …
