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Zeng Fanzhi, Blue (detail), 2015, © Zeng Fanzhi Studio, UCCA Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Zeng Fanzhi-Parcours

Zeng Fanzhi is at the forefront of a generation of Chinese artists who have achieved national and international prominence in the wake of the Cultural Revolution of the ‘70s. Over the past three decades he has probed the place of the unconscious in the construction of human experience while reflecting …

Nigel Cooke, Salome, 2016, © 2016 Nigel Cooke, Courtesy Pace London

ART-PREVIEW:Nigel Cooke-Roman Willow

Nigel Cooke’s paintings create mazes for the mind. Looking at his large-scale surfaces, the viewer becomes entrapped by illusionary depths and a …

Vik Muniz, handmade: sem título (colored tears), 2016, Galeria Nara Roesler Archive

ART CITIES:São Paulo-Vik Muniz

In a labor-intensive and meticulous process, Vik Muniz reproduces images the Western viewer is familiar with from the print media, such as …

Mahmoud Khaled, Notes on Justice 2, 2016, © Mahmoud Khaled

ART-PRESENTATION:On Building Nations

The thematic double exhibition “On Building Nations” by Mahmoud Khaled and Szabolcs KissPál revisits the notion and complex mechanisms of the construction …

Andy Warhol, Silver Clouds, 1966, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain Archive

ART CITIES:Brussels- Decor

Before the Modern era, art served primarily to decorate architecture and spaces in order to make life richer and more joyful. As …

Installation View, Norsk Natur, 2016 Photo: Nasjonalmuseet / Annar Bjørgli, Courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo

ART CITIES:Oslo-Norsk Natur

In the exhibition “Norsk Natur”, Toril Johannessen and Tue Greenfort join their forces to discuss nature. The exhibition is the second in …

Sterling Ruby, THE JUNGLE (Detail), 2016, © Sterling Ruby Studio, Courtesy Sterling Ruby Studio and Sprüth Magers

ART CITIES:Berlin-Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby is known for the multifaceted nature of his practice, which encompasses painting, ceramics, collage, video and photography, textiles, sculpture and …

ART CITIES:N.York-Sara VanDerBeek

Sara VanDerBeek first became known in the mid ‘00s for photographs featuring her own makeshift sculptural configurations in which appropriated photos were …

ART NEWS:Sept.03

Liz Magor represented Canada at the 1984 Venice Biennale, she draws her ideas from beliefs, reactions, and human behavior, especially when they …

Roxy Paine, Salt Almanac, 2013, © Roxy Paine, Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York- Roxy Paine

In his body of work, Roxy Paine mirrors natural processes, drawing increasingly on the tension between organic and man-made environments, between the …

Ali Banisadr, Foreign Lands, 2015, ©-Ali Banisadr, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-Paris/Salzburg, Photo: Charles-Duprat

ART-PREVIEW:My Abstract World

Over the past 30 years, Thomas Olbricht has put together one of the most extensive private collections in Europe. The collection encompasses …

Anish Kapoor, Mirror (Black), 2014, © Anish Kapoor, Photo: Dave Morgan, Gagosian Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor is one of a generation of British-based sculptors who became established in the International Art Scene during the ‘80s and …

Bruce Nauman, Contrapposto Studies, I through VII (Video Still), 2015-16, Courtesy the artist and Sperone Westwater-New York, © Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society

ART CITIES:N.York- Bruce Nauman

In 1968 Bruce Nauman created the seminal video “Walk with Contrapposto”, in which the artist performed an exaggerated walk along a tall, …

Magali Reus, Harlequin Darts (Detail), (2016), Courtesy of the artist and The Approach-London

ART-PRESENTATION: Magali Reus-Mustard

Magali Reus’s sculptures often resemble the furniture and equipment of modern domestic interiors and public spaces, most frequently functional objects such as …

Cotter Luppi, Untitled, 2010, Morgan Lehman Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Cotter Luppi

Cotter Luppi’s large colored pencil drawings on paper fit into a Contemporary kind of organic abstraction that isn’t really organic or abstract …