ART, Page 220
Two exhibitions by Chris Evans and Pak Sheung Chuen are on Presentation at Para Site, both include newly commissioned works. With diverging approaches, both artists offer a mediation on power. From the protocols of job interviews to the conventions and formalities of courts of law, Evans’s and Pak’s works tease …
Christian Hidaka’s “Players” are few in number and return from one composition to the next. Here, they are harlequins, young female acrobats, …
The group exhibition “Ways of Seeing”, takes its title from John Berger’s 1972 homonymous text on visual culture, the exhibition invites the …
In her performances, installations, sculptures, video and photo works Kimsooja combines isolated, fragmentary observations to form a whole encounter of different places …
Davide Balula is an artist and a musician. His visual practice investigates chance encounters, random patterns and the passage of time. Working …
Lucio Fontana dedicated his entire career to investigating the concepts of space, light, the void and the cosmos through the use of …
Jacob Hashimoto uses the traditional kite-making techniques and forms to construct his three dimensional wall works. Existing as neither sculpture nor painting, …
For over 30 years, Rosemarie Trockel has consistently resisted a signature style and her practice ranges from works on paper, “Knitted paintings” …
Amar Kanwar is an artist shaped by a commitment to social activism. Born in New Delhi where he lives, he works strictly …
Martin Puryear began his career in the ‘70s alongside other members of the Post-Minimalist generation. Working primarily in wood, he has maintained …
Like many children of her generation growing up in Iran, Pouran Jinchi learned the ancient art of Persian calligraphy in school. Unlike …
In the works of Cullen Washington Jr’s solo exhibition “Od Matter “, nature and the spirit re the impetus of his new …
The decades between 1950 and 1980 were beset by upheaval. Military conflict proliferated, while social and political unrest flared around the globe. …
Along with other protagonists of the ‘60s New York City art world, Carolee Schneemann questioned the boundaries of traditional artistic disciplines as …
The large, bold artworks of Barbara Kruger assimilate words and images from the deluge of contemporary mass media. Employing media effects and …
Tarik Kiswanson’s work reflects on the influences of one culture upon another as well as the active role the viewer’s play in …
For the past three decades Michael Simpson has explored ideas relating to what he describes as “The infamy of religious history”. Rooted …
Organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) since 1987, the 15th Istanbul Biennial brings together artworks by 56 artists …
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov base their collaborative works on the intersection of quotidian and conceptual elements. Ilya previously worked as a children’s …
Russian Cosmism was a movement that called for material immortality and resurrection, as well as travel to outer space. It developed out …
Alessandro Roma plays with the notions of perceiving what is undefined: if on the one hand his works are linked to the …
The decades between 1950 and 1980 were beset by upheaval. Military conflict proliferated, while social and political unrest flared around the globe. …
Adolph Frederick “Ad” Reinhardt was an abstract painter writer, critic, and educator active in New York beginning in the ‘30s and continuing …
Helen Johnson is perhaps best known for her large-scale, semi-narrative paintings, which explore a range of political and cultural histories and issues. …
