ART CITIES, Page 58
The title of the exhibition “A Tooth for an Eye”, at Kunsthalle Basel, is borrowed from a song title that reimagines the Old Testament code of corporeal retaliation (an eye for an eye) or (a tooth for a tooth), proposing non- commensurable exchange in its stead. Simultaneously, the title points …
Though Fernand Léger built his reputation as a Cubist, his style varied considerably from decade to decade, fluctuating between figuration and abstraction …
Born in 1961 in Geneva, where she continues to live and work, Sylvie Fleury emerged in the early 90’s as a significant …
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven strategically uses her initials as if they were a global corporate brand. The point of departure of the oeuvre …
John Bock uses the form of performance as artistic medium, combining theater, video, installation and sculpture. Most of his early actions or …
Working within the vein of assemblage, Brent Wadden makes paintings by piecing together his hand-woven weavings to create large scale, hard-edge geometric …
Over the past three decades Lisa Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young …
The American filmmaker and artist Leslie Thornton creates vigorously experimental film and video. All her work delves into the mystery and ongoing …
Bridget Riley may be best known for her analysis of optical phenomena in geometrical black and white paintings that define her starting …
Hideaki Kawashima was born in Aichi, Japan in 1969, after graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 1991, Kawashima undertook two years of …
The son of the Surrealist painter Roberto Echaurren Matta, Gordon Matta-Clark was educated as an architect, but was drawn away from the …
If Karl Marx’s theory of surplus-value is his most revolutionary contribution to economic science, his discovery of the basic long-term “Laws of …
Anna Bjerger’s paintings, which hide aluminium panels, get down a type of 21st Century photo-based impressionism that pushes far beyond the usual …
Blair Thurman’s influences range from Pop art and Minimalism to relics from childhood, popular music, and 1970s cinema. His standardized forms, pulled …
Zoe Leonard was born in Liberty, New York, in 1961. At age sixteen, she dropped out of high school and began to …
Often referred to as a Downtown Renaissance man, Spencer Sweeney’s ever-shifting and versatile practice moves across genres and styles within visual art, …
Since he graduated from the Regional School of Art in Rennes in 2010, Jean-Marie Appriou has created a substantial body of work …
Inextricably entwining the experience of the ordinary with the sublime, Friedrich Kunath’s work explores interior sensation, recontextualization and abstraction, and oppositional relationships …
The Moderna Exhibition is a recurring exhibition format featuring between 30 and 50 artists. Once every four years, the visitors are invited …
Zheng Bo is an artist, writer, and teacher, committed to socially and ecologically engaged art. He investigates the past and imagines the …
Ellsworth Kelly has been a widely influential force in the post-war art world. He first rose to critical acclaim in the 1950s …
A realignment of resources, technologies, and energies is taking place in the world right now. The intimation of this emergent ensemble, however, …
Hardly any other Iranian artist won acclaim as quickly as Shirin Neshat at the end of the 90s, her work, which has …
Over the last few years, Kamrooz Aram’s paintings have sought to rehabilitate the status of ornament and pattern within modernist aesthetics. Challenging …
