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Brice Marden's studio, Tivoli, NY, June 2017, Photo: Eric Piasecki

ART-PRESENTATION: Brice Marden

Brice Marden has had a profound impact on painting today. While there has been a sea change in Art Movements, Marden has unwaveringly adhered to modernist principles of abstraction. From his early monochrome paintings to landscapes of China or the Greek Island Hydra, he composed of vivid and calligraphic loops …

Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Nochtblau mit weisser kette (Detail), 1966, Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm, Courtesy of the Estate of Ernst Wilhelm Nay and Almine Rech Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Ernst Wilhelm Nay was a German abstract artist, whose paintings, gouaches, and drawings are focused primarily on subtle and individual use of …

Leonor Antunes, Installation view of le plan pliable, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Bordeux (CAPC)-Bordeaux 2015, Courtesy the artist and Centre d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (CAPC)-Bordeaux. Photo: Nick Ash

ART-PREVIEW:Leonor Antunes

Engaging with the histories of 20th Century architecture, design and art, the work of Leonor Antunes reflects on the functions of everyday …

Jacob Hashimoto, Our Fates Were Not Sealed, Merely Eclipsed (Detail), 2016, Paintings, bamboo, paper, nylon, acrylic and pigments, 167.5 x 152 x 20 cm

ART PREVIEW:Jacob Hashimoto-The Eclipse

Jacob Hashimoto uses the traditional kite-making techniques and forms to construct his three dimensional wall works. Existing as neither sculpture nor painting, …

Martin Puryear, Big Phrygian, 2010-14, Painted red cedar, 147.3 x 101.6 x 193 cm, Glenstone Museum-Potomac/MD, Photo: Ron Amstutz© Martin Puryear, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Martin Puryear

Martin Puryear began his career in the ‘70s alongside other members of the Post-Minimalist generation. Working primarily in wood, he has maintained …

Edna Andrade, Color Motion 4-64, 1964, Oil on canvas, 121.9 × 121.9 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Frederick R. McBrien III, 2003 (2003-94-1), © Estate of Edna Andrade

ART-PRESENTATION: Delirious,Part II

The decades between 1950 and 1980 were beset by upheaval. Military conflict proliferated, while social and political unrest flared around the globe. …

Bruce Nauman, Human Nature/Life Death, 1983, Neon tubing with clear glass tubing suspension frames, 182.9 × 182.9 × 10.2 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago, Acquired from City of Chicago Public Art Program Collection, through prior gifts of Florence S. McCormick and Emily Crane Chadbourne (2004.151), © 2017 Bruce Nauman / Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York; Photo: The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource-NY

ART-PRESENTATION: Delirious,Part I

The decades between 1950 and 1980 were beset by upheaval. Military conflict proliferated, while social and political unrest flared around the globe. …

Helen Johnson, Bad debt (Detail), 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 1380 × 320 cm, Courtesy the artist and Pilar Corrias Gallery-London, Château Shatto-Los Angeles, Sutton Gallery-Melbourne, © the artist, Photo: Mark Blower, New Museum Archive

ART-PREVIEW:Helen Johnson-Ends

Helen Johnson is perhaps best known for her large-scale, semi-narrative paintings, which explore a range of political and cultural histories and issues. …

Solange Pessoa

ART-PRESENTATION: Solange Pessoa

Solange Pessoa emerged in the Brazilian art scene in the ‘80s, with sculptures, installations, performances, drawings and videos that dialogue with and …

Left: Giuseppe Penone, In bilico, 2012, Bronze, river stone, 1276 x 500 x 200 cm, © Giuseppe Penone, Château la Coste, ADAGP Paris 2017, Courtesy Château la Coste. Right: Giuseppe Penone, Anatomia, 2011, White Marble from Carrara, 300 x 195 x 175 cm, Château la Coste, ADAGP Paris 2017, Courtesy Château la Coste

ART-PRESENTATION: Giuseppe Penone

Giuseppe Penone studied at the Accademia di Belle Arte in Turin where, he continues to live and work. Initially associated with “Arte …