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Before the Modern era, art served primarily to decorate architecture and spaces in order to make life richer and more joyful. As Asad Raza, artistic director of Villa Empain in Brussels, reminds us, “Being pleasing to the eyes is a deeper matter than one sometimes thinks”. With the inception of …
Doug Aitken’s work explores every medium, from sculpture, film, and installation to architectural intervention. Doug Aitken exploded onto the international art scene …
The ‘80s are known as the era of the post-modern individualist. These are the years of Thatcher, Reagan, the young urban professionals …
Skulptur Projekte Münster is an exhibition of sculptures in public places in the town of Münster. Held every ten years since 1977, …
In the exhibition “Norsk Natur”, Toril Johannessen and Tue Greenfort join their forces to discuss nature. The exhibition is the second in …
Sterling Ruby is known for the multifaceted nature of his practice, which encompasses painting, ceramics, collage, video and photography, textiles, sculpture and …
Ade Darmawan’s work deals with the history and people of Indonesia. He focuses on the histories that often remain untold, on minor …
Carmen Herrera sold her first painting in 2004 at the age of 89, after painting full-time for more than 60 years. Now …
All art is political in the sense that all art takes place in the public arena and engages with an already existing …
Paradise is one of Nobuyoshi Araki’s most important themes. After his wife death, he produced “A’s Paradise” (1998), in which he photographed …
Sara VanDerBeek first became known in the mid ‘00s for photographs featuring her own makeshift sculptural configurations in which appropriated photos were …
Liz Magor represented Canada at the 1984 Venice Biennale, she draws her ideas from beliefs, reactions, and human behavior, especially when they …
In his body of work, Roxy Paine mirrors natural processes, drawing increasingly on the tension between organic and man-made environments, between the …
Over the past 30 years, Thomas Olbricht has put together one of the most extensive private collections in Europe. The collection encompasses …
Takashi Murakami has stated that the artist is someone who understands the borders between worlds and who makes an effort to know …
Anish Kapoor is one of a generation of British-based sculptors who became established in the International Art Scene during the ‘80s and …
Karin Schneider’s work has a strong play impulse and sometimes invites the audience to invert the logic of the WORK bringing functionality …
In 1968 Bruce Nauman created the seminal video “Walk with Contrapposto”, in which the artist performed an exaggerated walk along a tall, …
Magali Reus’s sculptures often resemble the furniture and equipment of modern domestic interiors and public spaces, most frequently functional objects such as …
Cotter Luppi’s large colored pencil drawings on paper fit into a Contemporary kind of organic abstraction that isn’t really organic or abstract …
Cal Lane is a sculptor known for turning ordinary objects into lacy artworks. To date, her pieces stand alone in capturing a …
The São Paulo Art Biennial was founded in 1951 by the Italian-Brazilian industrialist Ciccillo Matarazzo. Its initial aim was to make Contemporary …
In his 20 years of work, the photographs of Gregory Crewdson have garnered an international following. Each series: “Twilight”, “Dream House” and …
Todd Hosfelt founded his gallery in 1996 in San Francisco’s SOMA district, Dianne Dec joined the gallery in 1997. Over the years, …
