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Left: Rachel Whiteread, "LOOK, LOOK, LOOK", 2012, Resin, Three panels each 189.5 × 39.5 × 15, Private Collection; Photo courtesy the artist and Mike Bruce. Right: Installation View: RACHEL WHITEREAD, © Belvedere, Vienna, 2018, Photo: Johannes Stoll

ART-TRIBUTE:Rachel Whiteread,Part II

Rachel Whiteread’s approach to sculpture is predicated on the translation of negative space into solid form. Casting from everyday objects, oftentimes using …

Samuel Yal, Dissolution, 2004, Photo: Lola Pertsowsky, Courtesy Boghossian Foundation

ART-PRESENTATION:Melancholia

The Greek physician Hippocrates incorporated the four temperaments into his medical theories as part of the ancient medical concept of humorism, that …

Efi Michalarou, from the “Faith” series, 2012-, © & Courtesy Efi Michalarou

TRAVELER’S DIARY: Faith

In all Religions there are many rituals and ceremonies that sometimes touch or exceed Contemporary Art. In Orthodoxy there is a very …

Pedro Barateiro, The Universe in a Cup, 2017, Plaster, cup, rope and basket in metal, acrylic paint and Indian ink, 25,5 X 27,5 X 27,5 cm, View of the Exhibition “Saga”, Galeria Filomena Soares, 2017 , Photo: Francisco Ferreira/ Galeria Filomena Soares, Courtesy of the artist and the Galeria Filomena Soares-Lisbon

ART CITIES:Paris-Talismans

The project “Talismans. The desert between us is only sand”, taking the form of an exhibition at Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris, …

ART FAIRS:Art Paris 2018

In 2018, Art Paris Art Fair will be celebrating its 20th anniversary. True to its original vocation to support the French art …

Jonas Wood, Hammer Interior, 2016, 18-color letterpress print on Crane Lettra paper, 28.6 × 52.7 cm, Edition of 20 + 10 Aps, © Jonas Wood, Photo: Brian Forrest, Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Jonas Wood

Jonas Wood takes the motifs of interior domestic spaces and landscapes as his subject, using a range of formal techniques to create …

Daniel Libeskind, exhibition “DIA-LOGOS, Ramon Llull and the Ars Combinatoria”, 2018, Courtesy ZKM|Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

ART-PRESENTATION: DIA-LOGOS

The exhibition “DIA-LOGOS, Ramon Llull and the Ars Combinatoria” explores the impact of the philosopher Ramon Llull (c. 1232-1316) on the arts, …

Tschang-Yeul Kim, Woterdrops, 1982, Oil on canvas, 88,9 x 116,5 cm, © Tschang-Yeul Kim, Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Tschang-Yeul Kim

The language Kim Tschang-Yeul uses in his “Waterdrop” paintings combines the discourse of photorealism and Abstract Expressionism, placing the paintings in an …

Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 1985, Oil on Canvas, 300 x 450 cm, Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Per Kirkeby

Per Kirkeby is not only a leading painter, sculptor and printmaker, but also a prolific writer, poet, and filmmaker. Entrenched in the …

Nicole Wermers, Women Between Buildings, Installation View, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2018, Photo: Fred Dott, Courtesy: Kunstverein in Hamburg

ART CITIES:Hamburg-Nicole Wermers

In her sculptures, photographs and collages, Nicole Wermers connects formal considerations with a discussion about urban space and its social, economical and …

ART NEWS:March 04

The online keywords anthology “In Terms of Performance”, produced by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and the University of California, …

Left: Shio Kusaka, (line 55), 2017, Stoneware, 27 x 11 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches, & (line 67), 2017, Stoneware, 23 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, Photo: Brian Forrest, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian. Right: Shio Kusaka, (line 65), 2017, Stoneware, 28 x 19 x 19 inches, Photo: Brian Forrest, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Rome-Shio Kusaka

Growing up in Japan, Shio Kusaka had little interest in art. But her grandmother led traditional tea ceremonies, and those rituals helped …

Left &Right: Jennifer Guidi, The Priestess (Green and Light Green MT, Green Sand SF #1T, Green Ground), 2018 Sand, acrylic and oil on linen 76 x 76 x 76 inches 193 x 193 x 193 cm, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Jennifer Guidi

Developing an absolutely personal technique, through the use of sand on canvas, Jennifer Guidi breaks up the distinction between painting and sculpture, …