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MIRAGES XLIII

December is the last month of the year, once this month induced me sorrow, especially on Christmas Eve, but slowly over the …

Image courtesy of © Anil Bawa-Cavia/STD-IO, aHaus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-1948 Unbound

With the beginning of the atomic, digital, and petrochemical era, the year 1948 marks a turning point in the history of Earth, …

Kiki Smith, Receive, 2016, Blackened bronze, 32.4×61×30.5 cm, Ed. 1/6 + 1 AP, Courtesy the artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese-Milano

ART-PREVIEW:Kiki Smith-Quest

Kiki Smith’s work resists both modern and classical notions of beauty, trading in the easily fetishized exterior of the body for the …

Ryoji Ikeda, data.matrix [nº1-10], 2009, Audiovisual installation, 10 DLP projectors, computers, speakers, wooden plinths, Variable dimensions, © Ryoji Ikeda, Photo: Ryuichi Maruo, Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-Ryoji Ikeda

Ryoji Ikeda has gained reputation as one of the few international artists working convincingly across both visual and sonic media. He elaborately …

Dinh Q. Lê, The Colony (Video Still), 2016, Five-channel video installation, three projections, two monitors, colour, sound, Overall dimensions variable, Various durations, © Dinh Q. Lê, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Archive

ART CITIES:Rotterdam-Dinh Q. Lê

Dinh Q. Lê is best known for his large-scale photographic weavings and video works that question the way in which world events …

Cai Guo-Qiang, Day and Night in Toledo, 2017, Gunpowder on canvas, 260 x 600 cm, © Cai Guo-Qiang, Courtesy Museo Nacional del Prado

ART CITIES:Madrid-Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang is considered one of the most significant artists active today, his versatile and creative approach to materials is as impressive …

Ed Atkins, Old Food (Production Still), 2017, © Ed Atkins, Courtesy the artist, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi-Berlin, Cabinet Gallery-London, Gavin Brown's Enterprise-New York and dependence-Brussels, Martin-Gropius-Bau Archive

ART-PRESENTATION:Ed Atkins-Old Food

Ed Atkins’ computer-generated films feature shabby, lonely protagonists with disarming and marked fidelity. His animations demonstrate their digital constitution, their near-total artifice, …

Memed Erdener, Hand of the State (Detail), 2017, Oil pastel on paper, 140 x 100 cm, © Memed Erdener, Courtesy the artist and Zilberman Gallery-Istanbul/Berlin

ART CITIES:Berlin-Memed Erdener

Memed Erdener (aka Extrastruggle) is an artist known for his work that direct references to the political atmosphere and history of the …

Ali Kazma, Tea Time (Video Still), 2017, Synchronized triptych HD video, color, sound, 7 min 17 sec, © Ali Kazma, Courtesy the artist

PHOTO:Ali Kazma-Souterrain,Part II

Ali Kazma works with lens-based media. All aver the world, he investigates situations, places and structures relating to man’s ability to transform …

Alex Katz, Laura 2, 2017, Oil on linen, 121,9 x 487,7 cm, © Alex Katz, Bildrecht, Wien 2017, Photo: Paul Takeuch, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac London/Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:Salzburg-Alex Katz

Alex Katz’s portraits feature his own social milieu: friends, fellow artists, and most notably his wife Ada, whom he has painted more …

Chen Zhou, Blue Hole (Video Still), 2017, HD Video, Duration: 26’03”, Music: Gao Jiafeng, © Chen Zhou, Courtesy the artist and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art

ART CITIES:Beijing-Cold Nights

Set in 1940s Chongqing, Ba Jin’s novel “Cold Nights” recounts the collapse of a family of intellectuals owing to domestic conflict and …

Cameron Jamie, Drawing (Detail), Bernier-Eliades Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Athens-Cameron Jamie

Cameron Jamie’s work created over the past 20 years, ranges through a wide range of media: performance, video, sculpture, installation, photography and …

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ART NEWS:Nov.04

Technologies suitable for mass consumption, such as VR glasses, 3D cardboards, 3D projectors and televisions, are increasingly found in everyday life. The …