ART CITIES, Page 53
Drawing on research by scientists, biologists and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past 12 years, at the intersection of politics and macrobiotics. Yi is known for working with various materials including ants, fur, body fluids and bacteria, in installations, sculptures and films. The …
Heidi Bucher distinguished herself particularly through her legendary “mouldings“, focussing and exploring the architectural space and the body through sculpture. It is …
Born in 1934, Helen Pashgian is a pioneer and pre-eminent member of the California Light and Space Movement. Her signature forms include …
Chiharu Shiota is best known for creating room-filling, monumental, delicate and poetic environments. Central to the artist’s work are the themes of …
Josh Smith works with painting, collage, sculpture, printmaking, and books. He first became known in the early 2000s for a series of …
In her paintings, Gina Beaves transforms digital images appropriated from social media and the Internet into thickly layered compositions that border on …
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 …
