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Installation view, Amar Kanwar: Such a Morning, Marina Goodman Gallery, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Amar Kanwar

In 1984, while Amar Kanwar was studying history at the University of Delhi, two events occurred that impacted his subsequent philosophical and artistic development. On October, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards, resulting in mass retaliatory violence against Sikhs in Delhi. Then, on the night of December …

Left: T. J. Wilcox, Hyacinth and Apollo, 2020, Inkjet print on silk, 221 x 139.7 x 6.4 cm, © T. J. Wilcox, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery Right: T. J. Wilcox, Dance, 2020, Inkjet print on silk, 221 x 139.7 x 6.4 cm, © T. J. Wilcox, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-T. J. Wilcox

T.J. Wilcox’s work is characterized by a fascination with personal narrative and the ways in which history is always under construction, woven …

La Voix des Femmes

STATEMENT:La Voix des Femmes

While we all felt that we were entering a new era, beyond the Second-wave feminism of the 1960’s and 1970’s that  broadened …

Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Attese (Detail), 1966, Water-based paint on canvas, 61 × 50 cm,© Fondation Lucio Fontana, Milano/by SIAE/ADAGP, Paris, 2020. Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES:Paris-Blanc sur Blanc

Kazimir Malevich was undoubtably one of the most influential modernist artists and the first one to engage fully in geometric abstraction. Malevich’s …

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Weather Stork Point (detail) , 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

ART CITIES:Basel-Camille Blatrix

The son of a painter and a ceramicist, Camille Blatrix initially studied graphic design in Strasbourg. “My father never really made a …

Yun Hyong-keun, Burnt Umber & Ultramarine Blue, 1997, Oil on linen, 65.5 x 100 cm

ART CITIES:N.York-Yun Hyong-keun

One of the most significant Korean artists of the twentieth century, Yun Hyong-keun is widely recognized for his signature abstract compositions, which …

Paolo Colombo

ART CITIES:Athens-Paolo Colombo

Paolo Colombo (born 1949, Turin, Italy) is an international art curator and living in Athens since 2008, as an artist, he is …

ART NEWS:Jan.01

Petra Lindholm’sexhibition “Fever” consists of  two parts. The new film “Bystanders” and a new series of textile assemblages under the title “Book of Changes”. Petra …

Lynn Umlauf , May 10, 1985, Acrylic, wire, Tycore, Plexiglas, bronze powder, canvas, 109 cm x 117 cm x 18 cm, © Lynn Umlauf , Courtesy the artist and Zürcher Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Lynn Umlauf

Lynn Umlauf, pays the grid no attention whatsoever, creating shaped, biomorphic canvases overlaid with configurations of cutout paper, which are painted with …

Yinka Shonibare CBE, Woman Shooting Cherry Blossoms, 2019, Unique fibreglass sculpture, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, bespoke hand-coloured globe, steel, brass, zamak, wood, resin, and silk, 244 x 193 x 436 cm, © Yinka Shonibare CBE, All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2020, Courtesy the artist and Fukuoka City Art Museum

STATEMENT:Woman Shooting Cherry Blossom

Yesterday browsing the international press, I looked again Yinka Shonibare’s CBE solo exhibition “Flower Power” at Fukuoka City Art Museum in Japan. …