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Anna-Eva Bergman. From North to South, rhythms

ART-PRESENTATION: Anna Eva Bergman

Anna-Eva Bergman is regarded as one of the best Norwegian painters of the 20th Century, she was long overshadowed by her husband, the painter Hans Hartung. She combines the experience of the Nordic landscape and light to form abstract pictures with an original design vocabulary. The use of materials such …

Spencer Sweeney, Self-Portrait, 2018, oil and oil stick on linen, 167.6 x 109.7 cm, © Spencer Sweeney, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Spencer Sweeney

Often referred to as a Downtown Renaissance man, Spencer Sweeney’s ever-shifting and versatile practice moves across genres and styles within visual art, …

ART NEWS:Nov.02

The exhibition “Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis” situates the works of ten visionary artists between historical and contemporary systems of thinking, which …

Friedrich Kunath, Yes and No, It Was Late, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, Two parts; 60 x 48 x 1 1/2 inches each, © Friedrich Kunath, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe

ART CITIES:N.York-Friedrich Kunath

Inextricably entwining the experience of the ordinary with the sublime, Friedrich Kunath’s work explores interior sensation, recontextualization and abstraction, and oppositional relationships …

Mario Merz, La goccia d’acqua, 1987, Installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca-Milan, 2018, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Photo: Renato Ghiazza, © Mario Merz, by SIAE 2018

ART CITIES:Milan-Mario Merz,Part II

Mario Merz started constructing igloos in 1968 and developed the idea thereafter, creating increasingly bigger and often structurally more complicated igloos. In …

Zheng Bo, Weed Plot II, 2016, Commissioned by Sifang Art Museum-Nanjing

ART CITIES:Turin-Zheng Bo

Zheng Bo is an artist, writer, and teacher, committed to socially and ecologically engaged art. He investigates the past and imagines the …

Stéphane Dafflon, PM070 (detail), 2018, © Stéphane Dafflon, courtesy the artist and Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle

ART-PRESENTATION: Stéphane Dafflon

Stéphane Dafflon’s paintings are simple at first glance, strangely smooth, however perfectly mastered. Made of geometric and abstract shapes with sharp contours …

Left: Günther Förg, Ohne Titel, 2004, 4-colour lithograph on white Bfk Rives Bόtten, 270grs/m², 80x60 cm - Ed. 60 + XX A.P., Courtesy Deweer Gallery. Right: Günther Förg, Ohne Titel, 1991, Acrylic on Canson, 200x148 cm / 210x158 cm, Courtesy Deweer Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Günther Förg

Günther Förg was as equally influential on the 20TH Century German art scene as, for example, Martin Kippenberger. He produced photographs and …