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Reginald Van de Velde

PHOTO:Civilization-The Way We Live Now

Our contemporary civilization is an extremely complex collective enterprise. Never before in human history have so many people been so interconnected, and so dependent on one another. In science and art, at work and play, we increasingly live the collective life. The Olympic Games, the giant Airbus, CERN, MRI, the …

Spencer Sweeney, Self-Portrait, 2018, oil and oil stick on linen, 167.6 x 109.7 cm, © Spencer Sweeney, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Spencer Sweeney

Often referred to as a Downtown Renaissance man, Spencer Sweeney’s ever-shifting and versatile practice moves across genres and styles within visual art, …

ART NEWS:Nov.02

The exhibition “Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis” situates the works of ten visionary artists between historical and contemporary systems of thinking, which …

Friedrich Kunath, Yes and No, It Was Late, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, Two parts; 60 x 48 x 1 1/2 inches each, © Friedrich Kunath, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe

ART CITIES:N.York-Friedrich Kunath

Inextricably entwining the experience of the ordinary with the sublime, Friedrich Kunath’s work explores interior sensation, recontextualization and abstraction, and oppositional relationships …

Mario Merz, La goccia d’acqua, 1987, Installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca-Milan, 2018, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Photo: Renato Ghiazza, © Mario Merz, by SIAE 2018

ART CITIES:Milan-Mario Merz,Part II

Mario Merz started constructing igloos in 1968 and developed the idea thereafter, creating increasingly bigger and often structurally more complicated igloos. In …

Zheng Bo, Weed Plot II, 2016, Commissioned by Sifang Art Museum-Nanjing

ART CITIES:Turin-Zheng Bo

Zheng Bo is an artist, writer, and teacher, committed to socially and ecologically engaged art. He investigates the past and imagines the …

Subodh Gupta, Exhibition view: Subodh Gupta. Adda / Rendez-vous, Monnaie de Paris, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Monnaie de Paris-Paris

BOOK:Subodh Gupta, SKIRA Editore

The monograph “Subodh Gupta” by SKIRA Editore accompany the first Retrospective dedicated to Subodh Gupta in France, which took place at the …

Stéphane Dafflon, PM070 (detail), 2018, © Stéphane Dafflon, courtesy the artist and Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle

ART-PRESENTATION: Stéphane Dafflon

Stéphane Dafflon’s paintings are simple at first glance, strangely smooth, however perfectly mastered. Made of geometric and abstract shapes with sharp contours …

Kimsooja, Bottari-truck – Migrateurs, 2007-09, Color photograph, 128 x 182,5 x 25,5 cm light box. Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration Collection, Photo: © Thierry Depagne, Courtesy of MAC VAL and Kimsooja Studio

MIRAGES XLVIIII

Looking at Kimsooja’s artwork from the exhibition “Persona grata” at the Museums: Le Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne and le Musée national …