ART, Page 55
Known for his kaleidoscopic abstract works, Simon Hantaï originated the technique of pliage, in which a canvas is crumpled and knotted, uniformly painted over, and then spread out to reveal a matrix of alternations between pigment and ground. Born in Bia, Hungary, Hantaï studied at the Budapest School of Fine …
Drawing from traditional Japanese painting, sci-fi, anime, and the global art market, Takashi Murakami creates paintings, sculptures, and films populated by repeated …
Tarik Kiswanson is a visual artist and poet. He comes from a Palestinian family that exiled from Jerusalem to North Africa and then Jordan …
Adam McEwen’s work resides somewhere between the celebratory and funereal. After writing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph in London, he began producing …
“Recovered time” is the title of Robert Courtright’s first retrospective exhibition in Paris and features a group of previously unseen works featuring …
Peter Alexander is recognized for his multidisciplinary practice through which he explores light and color. Alexander rose to artistic prominence in the …
Working across mediums and disciplines, Douglas Gordon investigates moral and ethical questions, mental and physical states, as well as collective memory and …
Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali was a Greek-born American sculptor best known for her monumental assemblages combining neon, bronze, aluminium, plaster, wood, canvas and paint …
Uman’s self-taught practice is not miraculous, but a rare fusion of instinct and discipline. Her gut sensibilities are rooted in the ritual …
Since the late 1970s, Jonathan Lasker has developed a distinctive formal vocabulary based on different mark-making processes, including structural grids, graphic scribbled …
A leading figure on the international contemporary art scene, Julio Le Parc revolutionized kinetic art and Op Art as well as being …
A relentlessly innovative and subversive sculptor, Tom Sachs is best known for his elaborate, bricolage recreations of masterpieces of engineering and design. …
Pakui Hardware is the name chosen by collaborative artist duo Neringa Černiauskaité and Ugnius Gelguda. Pakui Hardware refers to Pakui – special attendant of Hawaiian …
Throughout her sculpture and installation-based practice, Apollinaria Broche creates places of escape and retreat from the world that blur boundaries between the …
Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential contemporary artists and is often called the renewer of post-war painting. Richter analysed the …
Mary Weatherford creates large paintings comprising grounds of spontaneously sponged paint on heavy linen canvases, often surmounted by one or more carefully …
The Finnish National Gallery’s contemporary art collection comprises around 8,800 works dating from the 1970s to the present day. Kiasma’s collection exhibitions …
Jean-Frédéric Schnyder began producing experimental objects in the late 1960s within the context of pop art and has since gone on to create …
Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor are continuously looking to create a fresh new film language that goes beyond traditional human-centred perspectives in …
Inspired by literature such as Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”, cinema as in Melville’s “Les Enfants Terribles” and the culture of radio, Hélène Delprat’s work explores the questions …
Atelier dell’Errore (AdE) is an artist collective dedicated to visual arts and performance. It was formed in 2015 and constituted social enterprise …
Between observing the impacts of the current climate crisis and the possibility of resilience, the exhibition “Météo des forêts” offers crossings in …
The exhibition “SpaceRace” gathers five artists whose work is informed by a masterful understanding of pattern, materiality, and symbology: Leonardo Benzant, McArthur …
A relentlessly innovative and subversive sculptor, Tom Sachs is best known for his elaborate, bricolage recreations of masterpieces of engineering and design. Humble foam …
