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Liu Jianhua, Square No. 37, 2014, Porcelain, steel, 4 x 74 x 148 cm, © Liu Jianhua, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION:Liu Jianhua

Liu Jianhua is one of China’s rising stars in the contemporary art scene, who experiments with comprehensive materials. After graduating from college …

Rebecca Belmore, blood on the snow, 2002, Fabric dye, cotton, feathers, chair, 107 x 610 x 610 cm, The Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern, purchased with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Mendel Art Gallery Foundation, 2004, © Rebecca Belmore, Photo: Howard Ursuliak/Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Rebecca Belmore

The Canadian artist Rebecca Belmore started working as a performance artist in the late 1980s. The immediacy and presence of that discipline …

Alex Katz, Red Dancer 8, 2018, Oil on linen, 91,4 x 274,3 cm, Photo: Paul Takeuchi, © Alex Katz / Adagp, Paris

ART CITIES:Paris-Alex Katz

Although Alex Katz belongs to the Pop generation of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, it was not until the 1970s …

Mehraneh Atashi, Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict, 2018, Grazer Kunstverien, Graz

ART-PREVIEW:City Prince/sses

The exhibition “City Prince/sses” at Palais de Tokyo is presented as an imaginary, multiple and complex city, without borders, messy, staggering and …

Maria Lai, Untitled, 1991, Thread, cloth, tempera, 17 x 19 x 2,5 cm, M77 Gallery-Milano, Photo: Lorenzo Palmieri, Courtesy M77 Gallery e Archivio Maria Lai, © Archivio Maria Lai by SIAE 2019

ART CITIES:Rome-Maria Lai

Maria Lai is without doubt one of the leading figures in the history of contemporary Italian art. Not only on account of …

Carsten Nicolai, bausatz noto ∞ (color version), 1998/2015, Record player, color vinyl records with locked grooves, mixing board, amplifier, loudspeaker/ headphones, Dimension variable, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + ART-Leipzig/Berlin, Photo: Julija Stankeviciene

ART-PRESENTATION:Big Orchestra

Sound is an essential part of contemporary art. Yet musical instruments, which are simultaneously sculptures, represent a recent development in contemporary art …

Left: Sally Mann, Ponder Heart, 2009, Gelatin silver print, National Gallery of Art-Washington, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, © Sally Mann. Right: Sally Mann, Bean’s Bottom, 1991, Silver dye bleach print, Private Collection, © Sally Mann

Photo:Sally Mann-A Thousand Crossings

For more than 40 years, Sally Mann has been taking hauntingly beautiful, experimental photographs that explore the essential themes of existence: memory, …

Jeff Wall, An Eviction, 1988/2004, Transparency in lightbox, 229 × 414 cm, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Athens-Jeff Wall

As a major art figure in recent decades, Jeff Wall has developed a body of work that has profoundly changed the way …

Christian Boltanski, Prendre la parole 2005, Woodboards, coats, lamps and sound boxes / Collection of the artist. © Christian Boltanski / ADAGP, Paris, 2019, © MACs_Grand Hornu-Belgique, Photo : Philippe De Gobert

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Christian Boltanski

Christian Boltanski is a leading figure in contemporary art, considered as France’s most influential living artist. Since 1967, he has developed an …

Lawrence Abu Hamdan, The Recovered Manifesto of Wissam [inaudible], 2017, Artificial orange trees, mini cassettes, stone speakers, printed sheets, and 3-channel audio installation Dimensions variable, Courtesy the artist and Maureen Paley

ART FAIRS:Art Basel 2019 Parcours

Founded in 1970 by gallerists (Ernst Beyeler, Trudi Bruckner and Balz Hilt) from Basel, Art Basel today stages the world’s premier art …

Cabins, Taschen Publications

BOOK:Cabins,Taschen Publications

Ever since Henry David Thoreau described his refuge existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts, in “Walden” or “Life in the Woods” (1854), the …

Shahpour Pouyan, After examining the logbook, the doctors assume they are dealing with the plague, Exhibition view, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 2019, , Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES:Paris-Shahpour Pouyan

Shahpour Pouyan’s work is a commentary about power, domination and possession through the force of culture. His interest lies in singling out …

Geumhyung Jeong, installation view, Homemade RC Toy, Kunsthalle Basel, 2019. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

ART CITIES:Basel-Geumhyung Jeong

In her practice as choreographer, dancer and performer Geumhyung Jeong constantly renegotiates the relationship between the human body and the objects that …

Irving Penn, The Spilled Cream, New York, 1980, © The Irving Penn Foundation

Photo:Irving Penn-Still Life

Irving Penn was one of the most important and influential photographers of the 20th Century. In a career that spanned almost 70years, …