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Goran Trbuljak

ART CITIES:Bologna-Goran Trbuljak,Part II

Goran Trbuljak can be inserted among the generation of artists who were shaped in the historical and geopolitical setting of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In his work, he seeks to go beyond the artistic tradition in a “socialist modernism” mould that became established after 1950. Compared to artists …

Takashi Murakami, Qinghua (detail), 2019, Acrylic on canvas mounted on aluminium frame, 240 x 1785.6 cm, © Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki co. Ltd, All rights reserved, Photo: Josh White

ART CITIES:Los Angeles -Takashi Murakami

Drawing from traditional Japanese painting, sci-fi, anime, and pop culture, Takashi Murakami’s oeuvre comprises paintings, sculptures, films, and a stream of commercial …

View of installation at the studio. Courtesy Theaster Gates. Photo: Chris Strong

ART CITIES:Paris-Theaster Gates

Encompassing sculpture, painting, ceramics, video, performance, and music, the practice of Theaster Gates both derives from and sustains ambitious urban renewal projects, …

Penny Slinger, The Uninvited Guest, 1970-1977, Photo collage, 12 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, © Penny Slinger, Courtesy the artist Fortnight Institute and Blum & Poe-Los Angelew/New York

ART CITIES:N.York-Penny Slinger

On the wave of feminism, Penny Slinger started producing highly radical works which embraced not only the spirit of the time, but …

Tamara Fedorova, Lion, 1960s -1970s, Celluloid and plastic © Köpcke and Weinhold

ART CITIES:Berlin-ZOO MOCKBA

During the Tsarist era, Russia had no toy industry of its own. Those who could afford it spoiled their children with dolls …

Judith Scott, Untitled, o. J., Wool and found objects, abcd / Bruno Decharme Collectionm © Creative Growth Art Center, Photo © César Decharme

ART CITIES:Vienna-Flying High

The discourse on Art Brut has gained extra dimensions in recent years. The term Art Brut now goes beyond an exclusive focus …

Wreck of the steamship Città di Milano, Filicudi. Photo: Global Underwater Explorers

ART CITIES:Milan-Giorgio Andreotta Calò

Giorgio Andreotta Calò represented Italy at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). His works include sculptures, large-scale site-specific installations and spatial works that …

Left: Serena Fineschi, Ingannare l’Attesa (Verde Veronese), 2019, green Bic Cristal pen, 156 x 111 cm (with frame), © Serena Fineschi, Courtesy the artist and Marignana Arte. Right: Serena Fineschi, Ingannare l’Attesa (Rosso Tiziano), 2019, red Bic Cristal pen, 156 x 111 cm (with frame), © Serena Fineschi, Courtesy the artist and Marignana Arte

ART CITIES:Venice-Stanze

The exhibition “Stanze” is a project in three spaces involving six artists: two for every space of Marignana Arte Gallery in Venice. …

Maryam Jafri: Product Recall: An Index of Innovation, Installation view at Kunsthalle Basel-Basel Switzerland, 2015, Photo: Phillip Hänger, Courtesy Maryam Jafri

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Maryam Jafri

For the past fifteen years Maryam Jafri has worked across varied media including expanded sculpture, video, and photography, with a specific interest …

Jacqueline de Jong, Off season, 1986, Collection of the artist. Courtesy Dürst Britt & Mayhew (The Hague) / Château Shatto (Los Angeles)

ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Jacqueline de Jong

Jacqueline de Jong was involved in European Avant-Garde networks in the 1960s, including the Gruppe SPUR and the politically engaged Situationist International …

Flora Yukhnovich

ART CITIES:London-Flora Yukhnovich

Flora Yukhnovich’s paintings trace connections between a visual language originating in the Rococo with contemporary popular culture, examining and questioning how notions …

Ja’Tovia Gary, Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), 2017 (film still). Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Paris, Ja’Tovia-Gary

Ja’Tovia M. Gary is an artist and filmmaker currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Gary’s work seeks to liberate the …

Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE, Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red), 1940, Plaster and string on plaster base, 105 × 149 × 105 mm, © Tate Images credit, © Hepworth / Bowness

ART CITIES:Berlin-Objects of Wonder

Including 70 characteristic works by leading sculptors from Tate’s Collection, the exhibition “Objects of Wonder- British Sculpture 1950s – Present” provides a …

Michal Rovner, Mechanism, 2018, Video projection, Dimensions variable, © Michal Rovner, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:Geneva-Michal Rovner

As a result of her desire to produce work that is free from narrative, or indeed people with any distinguishable features, the …