Currently browsing

Page 216

Ai Weiwei, installation view: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21, 2019, Photo: Achim Kukulies © Kunstsammlung NRW

ART-PRESENTATON:Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is an artist, architectural designer, curator, and social activist and perhaps the best-known Chinese Contemporary artist. With his criticisms of …

John Cage, Where R = Ryoanji (3R/17), Pencils on handmade Japanese paper, 25.4 x 48.3 cm, Courtesy of the John Cage Trust

ART-PRESENTATION: John Cage-Ryoanji

Widely considered the most influential composer of our time, John Cage’s inventive and unorthodox approach revolutionised contemporary music and his influence extended …

ART CITIES:Paris Openings 18 May

Resonating throughout Imran Qureshi’s exhibition “The Seeming Endless Path of Memory” is the artist’s exploration of the infinite through the motif of …

ART NEWS:May 02

The exhibition “Archives, Annotations and New Proposals” consists of recent work by Carlos Aguirre, a key artist who has contributed to the …

Anish Kapoor, Exhibition view, Lisson Gallery, London, 2019, Courtesy Lisson Gallery

Art-Presentation:Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor combines Eastern heritage with Western influence and as a result makes truly international art, most famous for public sculptures that …

Garth Weiser, Festi goer / namaste / pizzahog (Detail), 2019,Oil and spray paint on canvas,185.4 x 152.4 cm,© Garth Weiser, Courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Garth Weiser

The work of Garth Weise is concerned with languages of abstraction and the physicality of the painted surface. His work is created …

Garry Winogrand, Untitled (New York), 1960, 35mm color slide. Collection of the Center for Creative Photography, The University ofArizona. The Estate of Garry Winogrand, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery-San Francisco & Brooklyn Museum

PHOTO:Garry Winogrand-Color

Garry Winogrand was born in New York, where he lived and worked during much of his life. He certainly didn’t invent street …

ART CITIES:N.York-Nari Ward

Emerging alongside a notable group of African-American artists who rose to prominence in the ‘90s, Nari Ward’s massive and tactile approach to …

Jannis Kounellis , Untitled (Tragedia civile), 1975, Goldleaf-coated wall, coat rack, coat, hat, lamp, Installation view, Jannis Kounellis, Fondazione Prada, Venice, 2019, Photo: Agostino Osio - Alto Piano, Courtesy Fondazione Prada

ART-TRIBUTE:Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis made a highly distinctive contribution to one of the most provocative art movements in postwar Europe. As a pioneer of …