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Internationally recognized for his startling use of materials, Vik Muniz creates stunning images, while investigating the history of art and of visual reproduction. By employing diverse objects such as toys, diamonds, industrial garbage, and minute magazine clippings, Muniz creates tableaus which are then photographed, in order to create distance between …
The pioneering figure of New Media art since the early ‘80s, Tony Oursler has studied and written about various methods of facial …
Edmund de Waal (Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal), is best known for his large scale installations of porcelain vessels. Much of Edmund’s …
“Slow, simple, sweet” is the first solo exhibition by Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst in Italy. The artist continues to explore shapes and …
Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese Performance and Installation artist best known for creating room-filling, monumental, delicate and poetic environments. Central to the …
Marisa Merz is the only woman artist associated with Are Povera. During her long marriage to Mario Merz she resolutely managed her …
Celia Perrin Sidarous presents intuitively organized collages and sculptural assemblages that consider collections of objects and how they are transformed by the …
The Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven is one of the first public museums for contemporary art to be established in Europe, opened in …
Annemarie Heinrich was a photographer or more accurately a portraiture artist. Specializing in glamorous portraits as well as magnificent chiaroscuro nudes, Heinrich’s …
William Kentridge is the child of Jewish liberal lawyers who defended victims of apartheid in South Africa, and moral and complex political …
Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, from solo gallery performances to large-scale, site-specific works. Many of her works are …
Marcel Broodthaers worked as a writer, poet, filmmaker, photographer, journalist and visual artist. As Broodthaers himself said, he would rather have put …
Salvatore Emblema’s work was strongly influenced by his environment. Born in the Terzingo on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, where he spent …
Over the course of his long career, Picasso devoted himself to sculpture using both traditional and unconventional materials and techniques. Unlike painting, …
Steve McQueen is an English filmmaker and video artist known for his criticall -acclaimed feature films “Hunger” and the Oscar-winning “12 Years …
Daido Moriyama is one of Japan’s leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post WWII Japan, his black …
Throughout his career Jeff Wall has consistently sought new ways of picture making, expanding the possibilities of the photographic medium. Beginning with …
For Juliendes Des Monstiers, each painting constitutes a whole, the different styles of which can be understood in their entirety that ultimately …
Cy Twombly with his close friends Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns, ranks among the leading exponents of a generation of artists who …
Swiss artist Milo Moire has unveiled a new Performance in Cologne, possibly her most serious to date. She staged a naked protest …
James Welling has been questioning the norms of representation since the ‘70s. His work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind the artist that since he sculpted a self-portrait out of his own frozen blood, …
Izumi’s Kato paintings and sculptures feature ‘primitive’ looking creatures that resemble babies or spirits locked up in bodies with imprecise forms, stripped …
Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school founded in 1933 on the principles of balancing academics, arts, and manual labor within …
