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Park Seo-Bo, Ecriture No. 931204, 1993, Mixed media with Korean Hanji paper on canvas, 46 x 53.5 cm, © the artist, Photo © White Cube (Ben Westoby)

ART-PRESENTATION: Park Seo Bo-ZIGZAG

Park Seo-Bo’s works reflect 50 years of exploring the role of the artist as a channel through which energy manifests itself in form. One of the most influential artists in modern Korean history, Park uses traditional Korean paper and employs simple but dramatic gestures that allude to a rudimentary language. …

ART NEWS:Jan.03

Trained as a miniature painter in Lahore, Pakistan, Ambreen Butt uses the dramatic imagery and storytelling from her native country’s traditional art …

Liza Lou, ingxube (Umlazi), 2015, woven glass beads, 163.5 x 163.5 x 3.5 cm, Lehmann Maupin Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Liza Lou

With an emphasis on repetition, formal perfection and materiality, Liza Lou’s sculptures and environments thrive on the tension between the apparent impossibility …

Katharina Grosse, Untitled (Detail), 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 300 x 230 cm, © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst-Bonn 2016, Photo Jens Ziehe, Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES:N.York-Katharina Grosse

Katharina Grosse’s approach to painting is not limited by the traditional rectilinear proportions of the canvas or even the architectural margins of …

Marina Abramović, The Hero, 2001, Chromogenic Print, 126 x 126 cm, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of Heather and Tony Podesta Collection-Washington D.C., © Marina Abramovic Archives, Photo: Lee Stalsworth, Whitechapel Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Terrains of the Body

Before the late ‘60s most women artists, struggling to participate in the male-dominated art world, had overwhelming disincentives to put feminist meanings …

Sofia Stevi, Untitled (Detail), 2016, Mixed media on canvas, Courtesy The Breeder-Athens

ART CITIES:Athens- Sofia Stevi

Returning in Athens from a few years in London, Sofia Stevi co-founded Fokidos 21, an artist-led project space in Athens and began …

ART CITIES:N.York- David Reed

David Reed has contributed as much in terms of expanding the vocabulary of abstract painting. With a rare combination of technical virtuosity, …

James Coleman, Untitled, 2011-15, LED video installation with audio, color, Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

ART-PREVIEW:James Coleman

The work of James Coleman over the last 40 years has transformed the role of image and sound in visual art, and …

Pierrette Bloch, untitled, 1987, Black ink on paper, 20 x 25 cm, © Pierrette Bloch, Photo : Adam Rzepka, Courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve Köln/Paris/St Moritz

ART CITIES:Paris-Pierrette Bloch

For decades, Pierrette Bloch has streaked, dripped, and blotted ink on paper or masonite*. Occasionally she would collage maculated scraps together, or …

Lee Bul, Untitled (Willing To Be Vulnerable), 2016, Mother of pearl, acrylic panel, PVC panel, acrylic paint, collage on silk velvet, 3 x 130 x 96 cm, Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol, Courtesy Studio Lee Bul and Lehmann Maupin - New York and Hong Kong

ART CITIES:N.York-Lee Bul

Lee Bul is considered one of the foremost women artists from Asia to emerge in the international art scene in the ‘90s. …

Shadi Habib Allah, Daga'a, 2015, HD video, 18:53 min, Courtesy of the artist and Green Art Gallery-Dubai

ART CITIES:Dubai-Shadi Habib Allah

In his practice, Shadi Habib Allah is interested opening up suggestive modes of navigation across circulation networks of people, technologies, objects, images …

Sonny Assu, They're Coming! Quick! I have a better hiding place for you. Dorvan V, you'll love it, 2015, Art Mûr Archive

ART CITIES:Montreal- Sonny Assu

Sonny Assu has been raised as an everyday average suburban white-kid by his grandparents, it wasn’t until he was eight years old …

Walid Siti, The Black Tower, 2016, Plastic figurines, paper, acrylic, plaster, twigs, 35x50x35cm, Edition of 3, each unique, © Courtesy of the artist and Zilberman Gallery-Istanbul/Berlin

ART CITIES:Berlin-Walid Siti

Born in Iraqi Kurdistan, Walid Siti lived in the former Yugoslavia before seeking political asylum in London during increasing aggression against those …

Roy Colmer, Untitled #118, Acrylic on canvas, 127 x 127 cm, Lisson Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Roy Colmer

Roy Colmer was a painter, photographer, graphic designer and video & film artist. One of his well-known projects is “Doors, NYC”, From …

Josef Albers, Homage to the Square, 1971, Oil on Masonite, 121.9 x 121.9 cm, © 2017 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York, David Zwirner Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:London-Openings

Featuring over fifteen large-scale works on paper the exhibition “Pour Paintings” highlights the exuberant invention and uncommon beauty underlying Sigmar Polke’s work. …

ART NEWS:Jan.02

Samson Young presents “A dark theme keeps me here, I’ll make a broken music” his first institutional solo exhibition in Europe. Young …

James Siena , Manifold VII (Detail), 2015 , Ink and watercolor on paper, 29.5 x 23.5 cm, © James Siena Photo: Kerry Ryan McFate, Courtesy of Pace Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: James Siena-Drawing

James Siena works across media exploring the range of possibilities that result when handmade or analog processes are executed with systematic constraints. …

Material Connections

ART CITIES:N.York-Material Connections

In the group exhibition “Material Connections” at Jane Lombard Gallery in New York, Serge Attukwei Clottey , Shezad Dawood, Christine Gedeon, Kyungah …