ART, Page 184
John Bock uses the form of performance as artistic medium, combining theater, video, installation and sculpture. Most of his early actions or performances were termed “lectures” and originated in the idea of an academic lesson on economic concerns. Starting out from that basis he has developed over time increasingly complex, …
Chiharu Shiota is best known for creating room-filling, monumental, delicate and poetic environments. Central to the artist’s work are the themes of …
Working within the vein of assemblage, Brent Wadden makes paintings by piecing together his hand-woven weavings to create large scale, hard-edge geometric …
Robert Rauschenberg grew up in Texas and Louisiana, and was very influenced by Southern art and culture, from its quilting traditions to …
Having left their countries to live and produce elsewhere, Juan Goytisolo* and Tezer Özlü perceived themselves at times as travelers and at …
David Ostrowski’s work is characterized by the use of a reduced color palette on vast, nearly empty fields covered with occasional gestures …
Over the past three decades Lisa Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young …
Paolo Icaro, born in 1936 in Turin as Pietro Paolo Chissotti, is an Italian artist known for his sculptures and paintings and …
The American filmmaker and artist Leslie Thornton creates vigorously experimental film and video. All her work delves into the mystery and ongoing …
Phoebe Unwin’s paintings shift between figuration and abstraction creating a personal register of images and marks: observations of reality, constructs of memory …
![Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, El Fin del Mundo (The End of the World) [Videostill], 2012, 2 channel HD video installation with sound, 13 min 35 sec, Courtesy of the artists and Gallery Hyundai](http://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Moon-Kyungwon-and-Jeon-Joonho-El-Fin-del-Mundo-The-End-of-the-World-2012-02-332x143.jpg)
The Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho make work that addresses elemental questions concerning contemporary civilization in light of political, socioeconomic, …
Bridget Riley may be best known for her analysis of optical phenomena in geometrical black and white paintings that define her starting …
Hideaki Kawashima was born in Aichi, Japan in 1969, after graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 1991, Kawashima undertook two years of …
For the exhibition “La Vita Materiale: Otto Stanze, Otto Storie”, Marina Dacci has invited eight female Italian artists to showcase their works …
![Zineb Sedira, Un bus est arrêté à un barrage de terroristes (1990) [detail], 2018, Copper plate engraved with acid, 56 x 76 cm, Work in progress, © Zineb Sedira, Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour-Paris/London](http://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/0026-332x232.jpg)
Despite the considerable attention in recent years to Islamist movements in the Middle East and North Africa, the situation in Algeria often …
The son of the Surrealist painter Roberto Echaurren Matta, Gordon Matta-Clark was educated as an architect, but was drawn away from the …
In his work the Chypriot artist Theodoulos Gregoriou often uses geometrical shapes such as spheres, cones and cubes, on which he projects …
If Karl Marx’s theory of surplus-value is his most revolutionary contribution to economic science, his discovery of the basic long-term “Laws of …
Often associated with the Pop Art Movement, Alex Katz began exhibiting his work in 1954, and since that time he has produced …
Anna Bjerger’s paintings, which hide aluminium panels, get down a type of 21st Century photo-based impressionism that pushes far beyond the usual …
In more than sixty years, Ed Ruscha has built an oeuvre encompassing conceptual photographs, paintings, drawings, artist’s books, prints, and films that …
Blair Thurman’s influences range from Pop art and Minimalism to relics from childhood, popular music, and 1970s cinema. His standardized forms, pulled …
Minimalism can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of …
Jwan Yosef’s work, while minimal in execution, is loaded with political and autobiographical signifiers. Having emigrated with his family from Syria to …
