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In her paintings, Gina Beaves transforms digital images appropriated from social media and the Internet into thickly layered compositions that border on sculpture. Across a recurring repertoire of subject matter, from photos hashtagged #FoodPorn to step-by-step cosmetics tutorials, Beavers’s work offers uncanny and often unsettling visions of our digitally mediated …
One of the world’s foremost contemporary artists, Sean Scully’s work draws on the traditions of European painting, invigorated with the distinct character …
Over the past 35 years, Christian Marclay has explored the fusion of fine art and audio cultures, transforming sounds and music into …
Tetsuya Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”, a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the …
The arrival of conceptual art in the early 1970s was associated with the shift of interest from aesthetic and material qualities of …
Paola Pivi’s works are authentic experiences of wonder, enterprises that mould and personalise the context surrounding them, transforming it into a pure …
Peter Doig paints representational pictures as though they were abstractions. His spellbinding works combine planar forms and a palette that is as …
Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, visual artist, writer and innovator of the documentary essay film. Drawing upon topics such as media, technology …
The idea of the “afterlife” has gripped mankind since the beginning of time. Religious promises of salvation, manifested psychosis, and ominous memento …
Tobias Rehberger is an artist whose work is characterized by transformation, serendipity, collaboration and shared experience. His work in large-scale often takes …
George Condo’s practice is rooted in the representation of the self or, as he puts it, one’s “many selves”, referencing the art, …
Known for maniacally-paced films combining color, sound, character and computer effects, Lizzie Fitch and Ryan Trecartin have been called video art visionaries. …
Donald Judd preferred to describe his style and oeuvre as “the simple expression of complex thinking”. To Judd, his works, which he …
In the aftermath of the conceptual reconsideration of the object and relationality spearheaded by Mono-ha in the 1970s, this era opened up …
Born in 1974, the Brazilian artist Rodrigo Matheus is one of the most promising artists of his generation. His work revolves around …
Since beginning his career in the 1960s, Brice Marden living and working in different locations (New York City; Tivoli, New York; Hydra, …
Sheela Gowda is an artist living and working in Bangalore, India. She began painting in her early career but started to make …
Two concurrent solo exhibitions of Gerwald Rockenschaub and Sylvie Fleury are on presentation at Thaddaeus Ropac’s Gallery in London that is housed …
Guy Yanai’s paintings are characterized by bold colors, simplified shapes, and a shallow depth of field. He often chooses everyday objects and …
Jean-Michel Othoniel shows a fondness for materials with reversible properties. He started out, at the beginning of the 1990s, with works made …
In February 1983, Monika Sprüth opened her first gallery in Cologne, in order to introduce a group of young women artists she …
Working at the boundary between abstraction and representation, Shara Hughes’ approach blends memory, association and imagination to encourage new ways of exploring …
XU ZHEN®’s provocative aesthetics relies on both conceptual and pop strategies. He first undertook behavioral and cultural experiments as an autonomous artist …
A pioneer of performance and video art, Joan Jonas works in video, installation, sculpture, and drawing, often collaborating with musicians and dancers …
