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Sarah Lucas, This Jaguar's Going to Heaven, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, © Sarah Lucas

PRESENTATION: Sarah Lucas-Happy Gas

Sarah Lucas’s practice is characterized by irreverent humour and the creation of visual puns and vulgar euphemisms. Spanning sculpture, photography, and installation, her work evokes the body in its physical, cultural, and psychic dimensions. In her compositions, Lucas often uses everyday objects as a substitute for the human body: furniture, …

Alex Da Corte, The Grimalkin 2023, Digital print on poplin, plexiglass, Flashe paint, sequin pins, foam, velvet, hardware, wood frame, 88¾ × 117⅜ × 3 inches; 225 × 298 × 8 cm, © Alex Da Corte, Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery

ART CITIES: Los Angeles-Alex Da Corte

Alex Da Corte explores the nuances of contemporary life in his videos, installations, paintings, and sculptures, which are often united together in …

Sahand Hesamiyan, The Spark Is You: Parasol unit in Venice, 2019, Photo: Francesco Allegretto, © Sahand Hesamiyan, Courtesy the artist and Parasol unit

ART CITIES: Dubai-Sahand Hesamiyan

Sahand Hesamiyan’s versatile practice is informed by a profound understanding of construction techniques, culminating in larger than life metal sculptures and small …

ART NEWS: Sept.03

Ivan Andersen’s solo exhibition “Inadequately Maintained Surfaces” challenges our traditional expectations of landscape painting: for example, in terms of the materials that …

Ali Kazma, Sentimental, 2022, Diptych synchronized HD video with sound, 7 min 45 sec, © Ali Kazma, Courtesy the artist and Francesca Minini Gallery

PREVIEW: Ali Kazma-A House of Ink

Ali Kazma works with lens-based media. All aver the world, he investigates situations, places and structures relating to man’s ability to transform …

Chen Zhen, Le Produit naturel / Le Produit artificial, 1991 (detail). Metal, Plexiglas, artificial flowers, screen printed mirror, cow dung, 297 x 170 x 55 cm. Photo: Ela Bialkowska. © ADAGP, Paris

ART CITIES: Paris-Chen Zhen

Chen Zhen’s artistic poetics, which ranged from international politics to a more intimate and personal view of human life, organically integrates the …

Adham Faramawy, The air is subtle, various and sweet, 2021, Single channel video installation. Courtesy of the Artist and Niru Ratnam, London

ART FAIRS:Paris Internationale 2023

Throughout the years, Paris Internationale has established itself as a new model in the ecosystem of international contemporary art fairs. Forward thinking …

Anselm Kiefer, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), 1994–2012, Gelatin silver print with silver toner, in steel frame, 55 ½ × 75 ¼ × 4 inches (141 × 191 × 10 cm), © Anselm Kiefer. Photo: Charles Duprat, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES: Paris-Anselm Kiefer

Over the past forty years, Kiefer’s practice has developed through the accumulation, mingling and reworking of themes, motifs and constellations which recur …

Marina Abramović, The Current, 2017. Video; 1 hour 35 mins. Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives. © Marina Abramović

PREVIEW:Marina Abramović

At once radical, controversial and revered, Marina Abramović is one of the most discussed artists. In her work Marina Abramović explores the …

rosalux berlin, Linda Weiss, king’s dead (mountaintop), 2019

ART FAIRS: Platforms Project 2023

Platforms Project is the international show that indicatively charts the art currently produced through collective initiatives by young artists on the international …

SoiL Thornton, Choosing Suitor, installation view, Secession 2023, photo: Sophie Pölzl

ART CITIES: Vienna-SoiL Thornton

SoiL Thornton’s works resist categorization along preconceived notions of genre, medium, artistic subjectivity, biography, as well as gendered and racial identity. They …

Emma McIntyre, Queen of the air (detail), 2023, © Emma McIntyre. Courtesy the artist, Château Shatto, Los Angeles, and David Zwirner, New York

ART CITIES: N.York-Emma McIntyre

Some of Emma McIntyre’s works draw you into an illusory space; others are formalist-flat. All her large paintings begin on the floor: …

ART NEWS: Sept.02

Maki Na Kamura in two exhibitions is presenting her new paintings. In an act of great concentration, she has taken the pressure …

Ugo Rondinone, bright light shining, Installation view, Gladstone Gallery-New York, 2023, © Ugo Rondinone, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery

ART CITIES: N.York-Ugo Rondinone

Using photography, video, painting, drawing, sculpture, sound, and text, Ugo Rondinone particularly enjoys destabilizing the viewers’ perceptions and unsettling their certainties by …

Cady Noland, Installation view, 2023, Gagosian Gallery-New York, Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES: N.York-Cady Noland

In modernity, violence finds expression not only in social action, but also in omnipresent objects, facilities and urban structures. The severity of …

Heinz Mack, light reflectors in the Wahiba Desert, 1997, Oman Photo: Heinz Mack © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2023

PRESENTATION: Heinz Mack-Mack im ZKM

German artist Heinz Mack is best known for his monumental outdoor sculptures and contributions to 20th-century light and kinetic art–particularly as a …

Thomas Schütte, Ferienhaus für Terroristen I (Modell 1:10), 2006-2007, wood, zink sheet, perspex, mixed media, 150,5 x 220 x 170 cm, House: 48,8 x 182 x 78 cm, Photo: Nic Tenwiggenhorn, © Thomas Schütte, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 202

PRESENTATION: Thomas Schütte-Westkunstmodelle

Thomas Schütte’s installations, sculptures, prints, drawings and watercolours take different and often contradictory forms. Schütte’s art looks utilitarian offering sustenance, shelter and …

Analia Saban, Folded Concrete (Gate Fold), 2017, Concrete on walnut pallet, 33 x 127 x 94 cm, 13 x 50 x 37 inches, © Analia Saban, courtesy the artist and Sprüth Magers Gallery

ART CITIES: Los Angeles-Analia Saban

Analia Saban works across and between artistic mediums, consistently turning viewers’ expectations of what constitutes a painting or sculpture on its head. …