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ART-PRESENTATION:A Tale of Two Worlds

The exhibition “A Tale of Two Worlds: Experimental Latin American Art in Dialogue with the MMK Collection 1940s-1980s” sets out to establish a dialogue between two distinct narratives in Western contemporary art over the five decades spanning the 1940s and the 1980s: the European-North American canon as represented in the …

Etel Adnan, Untitled, 1965, Folded leporello book, 21.2 x 243.2 cm, Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Hamburg/Beirut), Photo: Volker Renner-Hamburg

ART CITIES:Bern-Etel Adnan

 Etel Adnan’s career spans several decades and encompasses a wide range of media as it does traditions and locations. Adnan was first …

Laure Prouvost, Swallow me, From Italy to Flander, a tapestry, 2015, Tapestry, 200 x 462 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Nathalie Obadia (Paris / Brussels), carlier | gebauer (Berlin), Lisson Gallery (London / New York)

ART CITIES:Paris-Laure Prouvost

Laure Prouvost’s work adopts the form of independent stories that intersect and answer to each other, in which fiction mixes with reality. …

Left: Petrit Halilaj, RU, installation view, New Museum-New York, 2017, © Dario Lasagni. Right: Petrit Halilaj, Shkrepëtima, 2018, Ink drawing on cover page of the magazine Shkrepëtima

ART CITIES:Bern-Petrit Halilaj

Petrit Halilaj uses his own biography as a point of departure, adopting exhibition processes to alter the course of private and collective …

Heidi Voet, When all the world is a hopeless jumble

ART-PRESENTATION: Play

Kortrijk is a nice little town on the Lys River in south-western Flanders, only 7km from France. Founded by the Romans as …

Philip Taaffe, Cairene Window I, 2008 , Mixed media on canvas, 42 x 60.5 in, © Philip Taaffe, Courtesy the artist and Leila Heller Gallery

ART CITIES:Dubai-Philip Taaffe

Philip Taaffe derives inspiration from a variety of sources, including Islamic architecture, Pompeiian mosaics, 1960s Op Art, and 19th Century monographs on …

Installation view: Leo Villareal: ESCAPE VELOCITY, 2018, © Leo Villareal, Photo: Cow Lau, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Leo Villareal

Leo Villareal works with LED lights to create complex, rhythmic artworks for both gallery and public settings. He focuses on identifying the …

ART-PRESENTATION: Art et Liberté

Founded on 22/12/1938 upon the publication of their manifesto “Long Live Degenerate Art”, the Art et Liberté Group provided a restless generation …

Left: Elizabeth Peyton, Sander (Sander Lak), 2018, Pastel on paper, 45.1 x 35.6 cm, © Elizabeth Peyton, Photo: Kristian Emdal, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg. Right: Elizabeth Peyton, Hanyu (Yuzuru Hanyu), 2018, Oil on board, 36 x 28,5 cm, © Elizabeth Peyton, Photo: Kristian Emdal, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:Salzburg-Elizabeth Peyton

Elizabeth Peyton is best known for her intimate, small-scale portraits of celebrities, friends, and historical figures. Characterized by transparent washes of pigment …

Exhibition view from the Agora

SOCIAL ART: Zongolopoulos-Houliaras,Messana

On 14/7/18 took place the inauguration of the exhibition “Zongolopoulos-Houliaras: Messana” Curated by Iris Kritikou with great attendance of the art-lovers, collectors, …