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Tom Sachs, The Laundress, 2015, Latex paint, polyurethane varnish, epoxy resin, plywood, 144.1 x 70.8 x 70.8 cm / 56.7 x 27.9 x 27.9 in, © Tom Sachs, Courtesy the artist and Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac

ART-PRESENTATION: Tom Sachs-Ritual

Tom Sachs is best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. In an early show he made Knoll office furniture out of phone books and duct tape; later, he recreated Le Corbusier’s 1952 Unité d’Habitation …

ART NEWS: June 01

The occasion for the project “Blind Date / Sculpture Exchange” with the pupils of the blind and visually impaired school BUSO Sint-Rafaël …

Wood Kusaka Studios, Los Angeles, 2021, Artwork © Jonas Wood. Photo: Marten Elder, Courtesy the artists and Gagosian

ART CITIES:N.York-Jonas Wood

Known for his colorful and compressed depictions of the people, places, and things that populate his daily life in Los Angeles, Jonas …

Brian Calvin, Untangled, 2020, Acrylic on linen, 71.1 x 55.9 cm / 28 x 22in, © Brian Calvin, Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Brian Calvin

Since the 1990s, Brian Calvin has developed a body of highly stylized flattened paintings, rendering his figures in light-soaked portraits that retain …

Shara Hughes, Sigh, 2020, Oil, acrylic and dye on canvas, 172.5 x 152.5 cm / 67 15/16 x 60 1/16 inche, © Shara Hughes. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber Zurich / New York

ART CITIES:Zurich-Shara Hughes

Shara Hughes is best known for her colorful, invented landscapes that reference multiple art movements, such as Symbolism, Fauvism, and Surrealism, and …

John Zurier, Fårö, 2018, Photo: Nina Zurier

ART-PRESENTATION: John Zurier-Far Again

John Zurier’s reductive, near-monochrome paintings offer renewed testimony to the artist’s dedication to color, the material fact of painting and painting’s history. …

Maurice Mbikayi, Princesse Mathilde La Kinoise, 2018 / Mademoiselle Amputée, 2019, © The Artist & Officine dell'Imagine, Milano. Photo Léonard Pongo

ART-PRESENTATION: Congoville

Congo was colonized by Leopold II, king of the Belgium from 1885 to 1908 and was named Free State of Congo. During …

Francis Alÿs, Painting/Retoque (Video still)k 2008, Video, 8:30 min, color, sound, © Francis Alÿs, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Francis Alÿs

Born in 1959 in Antwerp, Belgium, Francis Alÿs originally trained as an architect. He moved to Mexico City in 1986, where he …

ART NEWS: May 03

For “Virtual Care”, their first solo exhibition in the UK, Pakui Hardware (Neringa Cerniauskaite and Ugnius Gelguda) present a newly devised commission …

Peter Buggenhout, "Mont Ventoux #44", 2021, wood, cow stomach, wax, cloth, isomo, epoxy, plastic, 68 x 107 x 89 cm, Courtesy: Peter Buggenhout & Bernier/Eliades Gallery | Photo Credits: Dirk Pauwels

ART-PREVIEW: Peter Buggenhout

Peter Buggenhout ( born 1963, Dendermonde) lives and works in Ghent. About fifteen years ago, he stopped painting and divested himself of …

Sandra Paula Fernandez, Paradise, 2021, Digital printing on dibond, 200 x 120 cm, Courtesy Arancha Osoro Gallery

ART FAIRS:Art Madrid 2021

Art Madrid, the most important contemporary art fair in the Spanish capital, celebrates its 16th anniversary this year with an edition that …

Yu Ji, Still Life 5, 2013,Green Hair Monster, commission project in 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, Courtesy: the artist

ART-PRESENTATION: Yu Ji-Wasted Mud

A revisitation of sculpture, an extension of its three dimensionality and attunement to body, context and narrative, is at the heart of …

Lucio Fontana, Milano, 1962, Photo Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs. All rights reserved, © Fondazione Lucio Fontana by SIAE 2021

ART TRIBUTE:Stop Painting

Described by Peter Fischli, as “a kaleidoscope of repudiated gestures,” the exhibition “Stop Painting” explores a series of specific ruptures within the …