PRESENTATION, Page 99
Personal travel and the cult of tourism form the subject of Franz Ackermann’s work, inevitably representing the dichotomous nature of 21st-century global life: fear and freedom, exotica and simulacra, the crowd mentality and the need for solitude. Mental maps form the basis of his working method, they push against the …
“My Bed” is probably the most notorious work in the oeuvre of Tracey Emin. First shown in 1998 at the Toyko’s Sagacho …
Joseph Beuys was active in Antwerp during the ‘60s and ‘70s through his relationship with Wide White Space gallery, for whom he …
Keith Haring was an artist and social activist responding to New York City’s street culture of the ‘80s. His work is about …
In the ’60s, Yoko Ono became increasingly involved in conceptual art, especially in performance, as an occasional member of Fluxus, she rejected …
Idris Khan transforms the conceptual art of appropriation into an elegant and substantial meditation on the act of creativity. Appropriating icons of …
Alex Dordoy’s practice concerns the tension between physical forms and their representation as flat images. He is interested in the interplay between …
Sherrie Levine along with artists such as Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince, questions how images are culturally constructed and the effects of …
Brice Marden has had a profound impact on painting today. While there has been a sea change in Art Movements, Marden has …
From the early ‘90s, Jake and Dinos Chapman have continued to provoke. Whether subverting artists’ original works (including their own) twisting historic …
Ernst Wilhelm Nay was a German abstract artist, whose paintings, gouaches, and drawings are focused primarily on subtle and individual use of …
Douglas Gordon makes videos, installations, photographs and text pieces, using both found and original material, in an attempt to lay bare the …
Engaging with the histories of 20th Century architecture, design and art, the work of Leonor Antunes reflects on the functions of everyday …
Korakrit Arunanondchai draws on an eclectic array of references in his practice: from popular culture, technology and geopolitics, to Buddhist and animist …
The Group exhibition “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment …
The Group exhibition “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment …
Along with other protagonists of the ‘60s New York City art world, Carolee Schneemann questioned the boundaries of traditional artistic disciplines as …
Verónica Vázquez grew up on the other side of the world, in Uruguay, where she enjoyed a quiet childhood. She later formally …
In her performances, installations, sculptures, video and photo works Kimsooja combines isolated, fragmentary observations to form a whole encounter of different places …
Lucio Fontana dedicated his entire career to investigating the concepts of space, light, the void and the cosmos through the use of …
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 began his career in the ‘70s alongside other members of the Post-Minimalist generation. Working primarily in wood, he has maintained …
Like many children of her generation growing up in Iran, Pouran Jinchi learned the ancient art of Persian calligraphy in school. Unlike …
The decades between 1950 and 1980 were beset by upheaval. Military conflict proliferated, while social and political unrest flared around the globe. …
