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Richard Mosse, Spiders, Infra series, C-print, 2015, © Richard Mosse, Courtesy the artist and Daimler Art Collection

PHOTO:Evoking Reality, Part I

Starting in the early 1990s, the at Daimler Art Collection (DAC) expanded the focus of its collection to works of new media: …

Leslie Thornton, Cut from Liquid to Snake, HD video, 22’ 6’’, Exhibition view “Speed” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2018, © Leslie Thornton, Courtesy the artist & Rodeo Gallery-London/Piraeus

ART CITIES:London-Leslie Thornton

The American filmmaker and artist Leslie Thornton creates vigorously experimental film and video. All her work delves into the mystery and ongoing …

Left: Phoebe Unwin, Approach, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 183 x 153 cm, © Phoebe Unwin, Courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery-London. Center: Phoebe Unwin Headway, 2018, Oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm, © Phoebe Unwin, Courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery-London. Right: Phoebe Unwin, Diverted Pedestrian, 2018, Oil on canvas, 72 x 50 cm, © Phoebe Unwin, Courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery-London

ART-PRESENTATION: Phoebe Unwin-Field

Phoebe Unwin’s paintings shift between figuration and abstraction creating a personal register of images and marks: observations of reality, constructs of memory …

Hideaki Kawashima, grove, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 50.0 x 61.0 cm, © Hideaki Kawashima, Courtesy the artist and Tomio Koyama Gallery

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Hideaki Kawashima

Hideaki Kawashima was born in Aichi, Japan in 1969, after graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 1991, Kawashima undertook two years of …

ART NEWS:Nov.04

For the exhibition “La Vita Materiale: Otto Stanze, Otto Storie”, Marina Dacci has invited eight female Italian artists to showcase their works …

Left: Valérie Belin, Bohemian-Glass-Cup, Pigment print, 173 x 130 cm, Edition of 6 + 2 AP, © Valérie Belin, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia. Right: Valérie Belin, Chinese-Coral-Red, Pigment print, 173 x 130 cm, Edition of 6 + 2 AP, © Valérie Belin, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

PHOTO:Valérie Belin-China Girls

Initially influenced by various minimalist and conceptual tendencies, Valérie Belin became interested in the photographic medium in its own right; this is …

Jeff Wall, Siphoning Fuel, 2008, Color photograph, 186 × 235 cm, Edition of 2 + 1 AP, © Jeff Wall, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Laws of Motion

If Karl Marx’s theory of surplus-value is his most revolutionary contribution to economic science, his discovery of the basic long-term “Laws of …

Anna Bjerger, Luminous/Night, 2018, Oil on aluminium, 85x100 cm, © Anna Bjerger, Courtesy the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

ART CITIES:Stockholm-Anna Bjerger

Anna Bjerger’s paintings, which hide aluminium panels, get down a type of 21st Century photo-based impressionism that pushes far beyond the usual …

Left: Bettina Rheims, Close up of Karolina Kurkova, the most beautiful girl in town, Décembre 2001, Paris, 2001, From the series “Pourquoi m’as tu abandonnée?” Color Photograph, 156 x 126 cm, Framed: 164 x 134 x 4 cm, Edition 5 + 2 EA, © Bettina Rheims, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery. Right: Bettina Rheims, Portrait de Daria au vison blanc II, Septembre 2006, Paris, 2006, From the series “Pourquoi m’as tu abandonnée?” Color Photograph, Framed: 164 x 134 cm Edition 5 + 2 EA, © Bettina Rheims, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery

PHOTO:Bettina Rheims

After having already enjoyed careers as a model, journalist and gallerist, Bettina Rheims began to explore photography at the age of 26, …