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ART-PRESENTATION: Theories on Forgetting

The exhibition “Theories on Forgetting” at the Gagosian Gallery maps evolutions of cultural symbolism through the work of 18 contemporary artists. Questioning …

ART CITIES:Turin-Uriel Orlow

In his work, Uriel Orlow engages with the way the past emerges and lives on in the present and often repeats itself, …

ART CITIES:Rome-Piero Golia

Piero Giolia’s work assumes the form of actions, sculptures, and installations often characterized as being extreme yet poetic. With a particular love …

ART-TRIBUTE:Alibis-Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke was one of the most insatiably experimental artists of the 20th century, who continuity experimented with various art mediums. This …

ART-PRESENTATION:Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock is widely considered one of the most important and provocative American artists of the 20th century, whose work has made …

ART CITIES:Zurich-Ugo Rondinone

You find ways to protect yourself, you build walls. The walls represent stability, the outer, more formidable layer of our skin. When …

ART CITIES:Beijing-Memory Burns

The opening exhibition of the OCAT Institute in Beijing, is entitled “Memory Burns”. Responding to poignant questions that have occupied his thinking …

ART-PRESENTATION:William Kentridge

“William Kentridge: Notes Towards a Model Opera,” is a comprehensive retrospective that marks the artist’s largest exhibition in Asia to date. Displayed …

ART-TRIBUTE:A Republic of Art

Can we begin to map recent cultural history? What do contemporary artists and their works have to say about their own time …

ART CITIES:Vienna-Ernesto Neto

The organic sculpture and the magical universe of Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto take over the gallery at Upper Belvedere in Vienna, allowing …

ART-PRESENTATION:Rudiments

The new solo exhibition by the artist duo Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin is entitled “Rudiments”. The exhibition explores the tensions between …

ART CITIES:London-Gabriel Orozco

In his new exhibition Gabriel Orozco, presents new paintings, scrolls, sculptures, drawings and photographs made over the last year in Japan and …

ART-CITIES:Stockholm-Fantasma

In his site-specific installations, Adrián Villar Rojas builds worlds we have never seen before, places we have never been to. He describes …

ART CITIES:N.York-Michael Heizer

Starting in the 1960s, as a pioneer of Land Art, Michael Heizer constructed a series of enormous works across the American West, …

ART-TRIBUTE:Proportio, Venice

According to Plato, the definition of proportion is the transition from duality to unity. It’s the investigation of how elements and patterns …

ART-TRIBUTE:Peter Halley

Since the early 80’s, Peter Halley’s geometric paintings have been engaged in a play of relationships between what he calls “prisons” and …

ART CITIES:Paris-Vik Muniz

Vik Muniz uses unlikely materials as: copper wire, chocolate, caviar, ketchup, dust, toys, diamonds, and trash, to construct images that are part …

ART-PRESENTATION:My Buenos Aires

The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation has a population of fifteen and a half million, making it Latin America’s third most-populated agglomeration after …

ART CITIES:London-Ian Hamilton Finlay

Ian Hamilton Finlay, was an artist, poet and “avant gardener” whose work defined and resisted the deracination of European culture; at “Little …