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TRACES: Robert Smithson

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Robert Smithson (2/1/1938-20/7/1973), one of the most influential artists of the 20th Century. Smithson …

Mario Merz

TRACES: Mario Merz

Today is the occasion to bear in mind a key member of Arte Povera, Mario Merz (1/1/1925-9/11/2003), who drew the guiding lines …

Rita Fischer, Untitled, 2023, egg-casein tempera on wooden panel, 20 × 90, © Rita Fischer, courtesy of the artist and Xippas Gallery.

PRESENTATION: Rita Fischer-Open Skies

Rita Fischer’s work can be associated with a renewed approach to the landscape tradition, although the horizon and perspective, the fundamental and …

Wu Xiaojun, The Incomplete Beginning: Notes on 2025, Exhibition view, Magician Space-Breijing, 2025, Courtesy the artist and Magician Space

ART CITIES: Beijing-Wu Xiaojun

Wu Xiaojun was an important figure in the conceptual photography movement in the 1990s, when he created clay figures staged them in …

Installation view of Ryoji Ikeda&’s solo exhibition “data-cosm [nº1”, on view at 180 The Strand, London, UK from 15/10/2025 to 1/2/2026, Photo: 180 Studios

ART CITIES: London-Ryoji Ikeda

Japan’s leading composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda focuses on the essential characteristics of sound itself and that of visuals as light …

Matthew Barney, Redoubt, 2018. © Matthew Barney. Courtesy the artist; Gladstone, New York, Brussels, and Seoul; and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Hugo Glendinning

PRESENTATION: Matthew Barney-Redoubt

Matthew Barney is renowned for provocative explorations of the body and ritual across sculpture, installation, film, performance, and drawing. Since the early …

Hun-Chung Lee, Jar, 2025, Glazed ceramic, 21 ¼ x 12 in, 51 x 54 cm, Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol, © Hun-Chung Lee, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery

ART CITIES: Seoul-Irreverent Forms

The exhibition “Irreverent Forms”  brings together Korean artists across three generations who defy the tradition of ceramics: Through clay—the most elemental artistic …

Richard Artschwager

TRACES: Richard Artschwager

Today is the occasion to bear in mind Richard Artschwager (26/12/1923-9/2/2013), who forged a unique path in art from the early 1950s …