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Rana Begum combines sculptural and painting elements, transforming the overpowering associations of urban debasement into poetic entities by building architectural superstructures with neatly ordered geometrics and colliding colour codes. The artist’s long-standing interest in simplicity, geometry, symmetry and repetition, is attributed to her childhood experiences of Islamic art and architecture …
Growing up in Iran in the wake of revolution, the multi-disciplinary artist Negin Sharifzadeh is fascinated by the interplay of different natural, …
Tokyo Rumando has started to photograph herself based on her modeling experiences for movies and magazines since 2005. She pursues expressions which …
The first successful road trip in U.S.A. by automobile took place in 1903 by H. Nelson Jackson and Sewall K. Crocker. The …
In Paris in late 1920, Tristan Tzara, poet and cofounder of Dada, drew up a proposal for “Dadaglobe”, an ambitious anthology that …
Marcel Broodthaers was associated with the Groupe Surréaliste-revolutionnaire from 1945 and dabbled in journalism, film, and poetry. After spending 20 years in …
Sprüth Magers Gallery presents a group exhibition featuring the Gallery’s most prominent Female Artists. Carefully selected to represent a broad spectrum of …
Christiane Löhr’s sculptures, seem rather unusual in light of the simplicity of their materials, because these run counter to our visual expectations. …
“Is space curved or straight?” In posing this question, Mario Merz was addressing not only the issue of the built environment, but …
Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local …
Nan Goldin’s “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” is a visual diary chronicling the struggle for intimacy and understanding between friends, family, and …
Along the course of what he calls his “Chantiers”, series of works based on rules which are both simple and open, Bertrand …
Harry Callahan was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century. His photography is exploratory rather than evolutionary. He chose …
Since Athens School of Fine Arts opened in 1939, its first two Annexes in Hydra and Mykonos Island, The Greek Islands have …
A masterwork often can be read as a self-contained retrospective, “The ¼ Mile or 2 Furlong Piece” was completed over a 17 …
The encounter of Joan Jonas with the work of Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer and Simone Forti, convinced her to expand her artistic …
Always rooted in the medium of film, Tony Oursler conjures sculptural and immersive experiences using technologies that hark back to magic lanterns, …
John Akomfrah is a respected artist and filmmaker, who has been committed to giving a voice and a presence to the legacy …
Mr. (Masakatsu Iwamoto), began as protégé of Takashi Murakami, and has worked as an artist from 1996. Paul McCarthy has commented that …
Simon Schubert works across several mediums and his installation-oriented exhibitions are often inspired by literary and philosophical sources, also the artist creates …
The sculptures of Andreas Slominski (b 1959 in Meppen, Germany) were first noticed in the early ‘80s. While his works dating from …
In “Bittersweet Transformation” works by three female artists from three generations, from sculpture through to film, come together in a dialogue about …
Like so many who grew up in the U.S.A, Carly Mark remembers moments from her childhood in Detroit full with images of …
Simone Leigh works in various media including sculpture, video installation and social practice. Simone Leigh has described her work as auto-ethnographic, and …
