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Peter Halley is known for depicting cells, prisons and conduits, rendered in fluorescent Day-Glo acrylic paint and Roll-a-Tex texture additive. Halley came to prominence in the early ‘80s with a group of artists which included Jeff Koons and Haim Steinbach. Halley, and the group loosely labelled “Neo-Geo”, deployed a cool …
Since the early ‘90s, Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the …
Zhang Huan has emerged as a key figure in the flourishing Chinese art scene, an explorer of the limits of the human …
The project “The Face Of The City”, began on 2012, it is a work in progress… From Rome, Paris and Athens to …
Didier Mencoboni in his solo exhibition “Episode XII” at Galerie Eric Dupont presents a selection of paintings from the series “…Etc…”. Since …
orn in Nairobi, Wangechi Mutu scrutinizes globalization by combining found materials, magazine cutouts, sculpture, and painted imagery. Sampling such diverse sources as …
Incorporating a number of different moving image techniques, the short films in the “Parallax scrolling” screening programme at Breese|Little Gallery in London, …
Over the past 45 years, Giuseppe Penone’s work has probed industrialised society’s understanding of nature. Rather than seeing them as distinct or …
Bouchra Khalili works with film, video, installation, photography and prints, in her work explores the broad topics of migration and displacement. In …
Kenneth Noland emerged in the wake of the first generation of the New York School. Interested in breaking away from the prevailing …
William Ν. Copley creator of madcap narrative paintings, drawings, and installations, was both an insider and an outsider. Known by his pseudonym …
Sally Mann took up photography at the Putney School in Vermont, where she met Larry, to whom she proposed. After a year …
In the mid ‘90s when Toshiyuki Inoko was studying engineering at the University of Tokyo, he recognized that the future would be …
Blair Thurman is an artist who uses paint to capture vibrations from reality and then give them form. Using shaped canvases, a …
Marisa Merz has a unique place in the history of Contemporary art. With her appearance of absence, her visionary distraction, her fragile …
Photographer, film-maker, cultural theorist and political activist, Allan Sekula was one of the outstanding Marxist intellectuals of his generation. The author of …
During her career Berenice Abbott produced one of the most significant and varied bodies of photography ever made. The photographer had a …
The work of Not Vital is inspired from his encounters, impressions and collaborative projects amongst different cultures around the world. Working in …
Organic visual interpretations of her mind, Christine Ödlund creates art in a very unique way. She combines meditation into her creative process, …
Rodney Graham’s works humourously consider notions of doubling and historical modes of self-representation. Graham is part of a generation of Vancouver artists, …
Whereas modernist-era painting was rigidly fixed to the idea that a presentation of an image should stay as true to the authentic …
The work of the Brazilian artist Marepe has evolved from a deep connection with the local traditions, customs, and materials of Bahia, …
Broomberg & Chanarin approach photography as a form of conceptual ethnography. Much of their work has been concerned with the gathering of …
