PRESENTATION, Page 85
Marisa Merz is the only woman artist associated with Are Povera. During her long marriage to Mario Merz she resolutely managed her own career while rarely leaving his side and, occasionally, operating as his anonymous collaborator. Still, it is her tenacious personal vision that has resulted in a body of …
Amar Kanwar is an artist shaped by a commitment to social activism. Born in New Delhi where he lives, he works strictly …
Louise Bourgeois is widely and justifiably considered one of the most important artists of the 20th Century. Louise Bourgeois described her artistic …
A political activist as well as an artist, Jenny Holzer’s aim is to disrupt the passive reception of information from damaging sources. …
The Neoavantgarde of the 1960s and 1970s is characterized by its radical breaks with tradition, by redefinitions of creative approaches and artistic …
Tetsugo Hyakutake works with contemporary issues in relation to their historical contexts. Through his artwork, he creates what he calls his own …
Jackson Pollock was the leading force behind the Abstract Expressionist Movement in the art world. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame …
Raquel van Haver works on burlap, often combining oil paint, charcoal, resin, hair, paper, tar and ash in heavily textured compositions. She …
Andres Lutz and Anders Guggisberg have worked together as an artistic duo since 1996, creating a wide variety of works. Their repertoire …
The exhibition “Signal or Noise-The Photographic II” is the second part of a diptych exhibition in spread over two years and is …
Despite his undeniably pivotal position in the international film and television world, David Lynch’s work as a visual artist is much less …
Within Paulina Olowska’s practice, industry, leisure, and socialist symbolism occupy the same visual and cultural space. Her realist paintings, drawings, and collages …
Chiharu Shiota is best known for creating room-filling, monumental, delicate and poetic environments. Central to the artist’s work are the themes of …
Robert Rauschenberg grew up in Texas and Louisiana, and was very influenced by Southern art and culture, from its quilting traditions to …
Having left their countries to live and produce elsewhere, Juan Goytisolo* and Tezer Özlü perceived themselves at times as travelers and at …
David Ostrowski’s work is characterized by the use of a reduced color palette on vast, nearly empty fields covered with occasional gestures …
Paolo Icaro, born in 1936 in Turin as Pietro Paolo Chissotti, is an Italian artist known for his sculptures and paintings and …
Phoebe Unwin’s paintings shift between figuration and abstraction creating a personal register of images and marks: observations of reality, constructs of memory …
![Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, El Fin del Mundo (The End of the World) [Videostill], 2012, 2 channel HD video installation with sound, 13 min 35 sec, Courtesy of the artists and Gallery Hyundai](https://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Moon-Kyungwon-and-Jeon-Joonho-El-Fin-del-Mundo-The-End-of-the-World-2012-02-332x143.jpg)
The Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho make work that addresses elemental questions concerning contemporary civilization in light of political, socioeconomic, …
![Zineb Sedira, Un bus est arrêté à un barrage de terroristes (1990) [detail], 2018, Copper plate engraved with acid, 56 x 76 cm, Work in progress, © Zineb Sedira, Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour-Paris/London](https://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/0026-332x232.jpg)
Despite the considerable attention in recent years to Islamist movements in the Middle East and North Africa, the situation in Algeria often …
In his work the Chypriot artist Theodoulos Gregoriou often uses geometrical shapes such as spheres, cones and cubes, on which he projects …
Often associated with the Pop Art Movement, Alex Katz began exhibiting his work in 1954, and since that time he has produced …
In more than sixty years, Ed Ruscha has built an oeuvre encompassing conceptual photographs, paintings, drawings, artist’s books, prints, and films that …
Minimalism can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of …
