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Wang Jin, Chinese Dream, 2006, Polyvinyl chloride, vinyl filament, iron chain, and hook, 170.2 x 210 x 12.7 cm, Pizzuti Collection

ART-TRIBUTE:The Allure of Matter-Material Art from China,Part II

Since the 1980s, artists working in China have experimented with various materials, transforming seemingly everyday objects into large-scale artworks. These artists have exploded fireworks into paintings, felted hair into gleaming flags, stretched pantyhose into monochromatic paintings, deconstructed old doors and windows to make sculptures, and even skillfully molded porcelain into …

Akinbode Akinbiyi, Bar Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos, 2006, From the series Sea Never Dry, Photograph, © Akinbode Akinbiyi, Courtesy: the artist and Gropius Bau

ART CITIES:Berlin-Akinbode Akinbiy

Walking the streets of Bamako, Berlin, Cairo, Dakar, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos, or other megacities, Akinbode Akinbiy studies social structures, uncovers the hidden, …

ART NEWS:Feb.01

For her site-specific work “Perspectives” (2020) Esther Adam draws linguistic and graphic analyses on the wide glass front of the GAK project …

Exhibition view: Richard Prince-New Portraits, Gagosian Gallery-New York, 2014, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian, Photo: Robert McKeever

PHOTO:Richard Prince-New Portraits

Mining images from advertising, social media, and entertainment since the late 1970s, Richard Prince has redefined concepts of authorship, ownership, and aura. …

Yuan Jai, Flirting, 2001, Ink and colour on silk, 84 x 222 cm, Private collection, Image Courtesy of the artist

ART CITIES:Paris-Yuan Jai

Borrowing style, patterns and materials (ink and mineral pigments on silk) from classical Chinese painting Yuan Jai transfers and incorporates them in …

DUCH COUNTRYSIDE

MIRAGES LIX

This month begins with two new and promising Media Partnerships with International Art Fairs in Spain: Art Madrid 2020 and JUSTMAD 2020 …