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Nadim Abbas, Apocalypse Postponed, 2014, site specific installation, Photo: Roberto Chamorro

ART-PRESENTATION: Nadim Abbas-New Directions

Nadim Abbas draws his inspiration from literature, psychology and science. The artist produces heavily researched sculptural works, photography and large installations. Finding objects in places such as flea markets and dime stores Abbas allows them to infiltrate his artistry. The objects are the foundation for research and sometimes find their …

Stuart Davis, Owh! in San Pao (Detail), 1951, Whitney Museum of American Art-New York, Purchase 52.2, © Estate of Stuart Davis, Licensed by VAGA-New York

ART CITIES:N.York-Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis aesthetic values were shaped by his childhood exposure to the Realist Ashcan painters in his father’s circle, who captured the …

Julia McInerney, Τhe light, and the Light - Virginia Woolf Piece II (two anchors melted down and recast) 2014, Photo: Grant Hancock, Courtesy of the artist and GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery

BIENNALS:TarraWarra Biennial 2016

Biennials and magazines both take the form of an edition. They are continuous, one edition after another, but punctuated by pauses. As …

GLASS, Exhbition View, Photo: Tom Barratt Pace Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York- GLASS

In the group exhibition “GLASS” at Pace Gallery in New York, are on presentation works made in glass and using glass found …

Günther Förg, Exhibition View, Massimo De Carlo Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Günther Förg

In his practice Günther Förg, who was highly inspired by Abstract influences and Modernism, has explored tangible ways of reflecting on materiality …

Shahzia Sikander, Nemesis, 2003, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Rome-Shahzia Sikander

Since moving from Pakistan to the United States in 1992, Shahzia Sikander, has been exploring ways to stretch and pull apart the …

Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, Mocha Standard, Cheese Mold Standard with Olive, and Double Standard, 1966–69, © Ed Ruscha, Gagosian Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Beverly Hills-Ed Ruscha

  Ed Ruscha’s photography, drawing, painting, and artist books record the shifting emblems of American life in the last half century. His …

A Fair Land-And/or a courgette-based economy

ART-PRESENTATION:A Fair Land

Echoing the role artists and the European Arts and Crafts movement played in creating and articulating a new vision for Ireland pre-1916, …

Sensory Ethnography Lab, Leviathan, 2012, ©Arrête Ton Cinéma

BIENNALS:Aichi Triennale 2016,Part I

Aichi Triennale is an international art festival aimed at showcasing as fully as possible the artistic activities of the present day, including …

Kawamoto Masukichi (1831–1907), Ornamental panel “Mount Fuji” Japan, Seto, Meiji period (1868–1912), ca. 1872, © MAK

ART-PRESENTATION: Tadashi Kawamata

Tadashi Kawamata is an artist who transforms our environment, he works in the midst of demolition and construction. These projects have taken …

Lukas Duwenhögger, Exhibition View, Raven Row Archive

ART CITIES:London, Lukas Duwenhögger

Some boys don’t belong in school, they’re just too strange. Lukas Duwenhögger’s paintings, collages and drawings are wild proof that he was …

Yuri Pattison, user, space (2016), Installation view, Chisenhale Gallery, 2016, Commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery and Create-London, Courtesy of the artist, mother's tankstation limited-Dublin, Helga Maria Klosterfelde-Berlin;and Labor-Mexico, Photo: Andy Keate

ART CITIES:London-Yuri Pattison

Yuri Pattison works with digital media, video and sculpture to explore the political implications of new technologies and the changing nature of …

Mike Nelson, Cloak, Installation View, 2016, Photo: NMNM/Sebastiano Pellion di Persano, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES: Monaco -Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson came to prominence in the late ‘90s, creating psychological environments by sifting through the debris of modern life. His installations …