ART CITIES, Page 54
Jean-Michel Othoniel shows a fondness for materials with reversible properties. He started out, at the beginning of the 1990s, with works made out of wax or sulfur, showing them at the Kassel documenta by 1992. A turning point in his career came following year when he began employing glass exploring …
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 …
Günther Förg and Julian Lethbridge come from two worlds – Förg working and teaching at the University in Karlsruhe and later at …
Widely considered as the most influential composer of our time, John Cage’s inventive and unorthodox approach revolutionised contemporary music and his influence …
Johan Creten started working with clay from the late 80s, when the medium was still a taboo in the art world. Earth …
For fifty years, Dan Graham has traced the symbiosis between architectural environments and their inhabitants. With a practice that encompasses curating, writing, …
![Spencer Finch, Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA, August 28, 2004) [Detail], 2004, 100 fluorescent lights, filters, clothespins, Dimensions variable, © Spencer Finch, Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery](https://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/0021-332x192.jpg)
Spencer Finch is best known for light installations that visualise his experience of natural phenomena. His investigations into the nature of light, …
Allan Sekula revitalized documentary photography, provided critical foundations for theorizing the relationship between word and image, and was one of the earliest …
Sherrie Levine’s methods of appropriating and citing the works of important 20th Century male artists established her as a consequential artist of …
Born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley (lying generally to the east of Los Angeles), Patrick Martinez’s L.A. suburban upbringing and …
Combining the laboratory and the studio, chemical experiments and performances, Hicham Berrada creates a personal universe that plays on the codes and …
Strongly influenced by his background as both an artist and a scientist, Hicham Berrada combines intuition and knowledge, science and poetry. He …
Edgar Sarin caught the eye of the public and art professionals right from the start thanks to his “Lifetime Concessions”, sealed artworks …
Renowned for his paintings, drawings, and prints, as well as his innovative architectural constructions, Shusaku Arakawa was one of the earliest practitioners …
Lodged between Op Art and Minimalism, Rana Begum’s works draw their inspiration from repetitive geometric patterns found within Islamic art and urban …
Stephen Antonakos was a pioneer in introducing neon into the realm of art, giving it new perceptual and formal meanings. Around 1960, …
The practice of Jim Shaw spans a wide range of artistic media and visual imagery. Since the 1970s, Shaw has mined the …
The evolution of Conceptual Art overlapped with the end of the gold standard in the USA in 1971, and since then, the …
The group exhibition “Hyper! A Journey Into Art and Music” offer a wide range of experiences with over 300 works, including paintings, …
Christiane Löhr’s. work is quintessentially ecological and eco-sustainable, for it uses strictly natural, and thus fully biodegradable, materials which are gathered according …
The retrospective “Inhabiting Time” presents the work of artist-philosopher, Lee Ufan, charting his creation of a visual, conceptual, and theoretical terrain that …
