ART CITIES, Page 65
You may know Frank Thiel through his photographs of the transformation of Berlin from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. These representations of a city and culture – literally torn down and rebuilt from the ground up – were a huge hit both with city natives and photography critics further afield, …
Senga Nengudi is one of the seminal conceptual and performance artists of our time, she emerged as part of a group of …
Adam McEwen’s work resides somewhere between the celebratory and funereal. After writing obituaries for the Daily Telegraph in London, he began producing …
The Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes fuses modernist styles of painting with the emblems of her cultural heritage. Her abstract compositions are typically …
Alex Mirutziu is a Romanian artist whose practice extends over a wide range of media and activities, including: writing, photography, media-critical video …
Arlene Shechet isknown for her sculptures that defy categotization. Some are figurative, some are architectural, and others resemble melting vessels or growing …
Through his long, and ongoing, career Gianfranco Baruchello has tackled a vast array of mediums spanning from painting to video via experiments …
A multidisciplinary artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto works with photography, sculpture, architecture and installation. A photographer since the ‘70s, his work deals with history …
Traversing a wide range of media, from collage to performance, Haegue Yang’s body of work often features quotidian and domestic found objects …
Roe Ethridge is known for exploring the plastic nature of photography, how pictures can be easily replicated and recombined to create new …
Torbjørn Rødland constructs portraits, still-lifes and landscapes, which simultaneously inhabit and defamiliarise the realm of the everyday. Embedded with multiple symbols and …
Like many brilliant artists, Robert Colescott was a complicated man. He explored the social questions of our times with both seriousness and …
Fernando Palma Rodriguez typically uses visual motifs of nature, constructed with found manufactured materials such as scrap metal and often animating these …
Matthew Porter is part of a large group of contemporary artists pushing the boundaries of traditional photographic techniques and blurring the lines …
The stock market crash and mass unemployment, political polarization, the industrialization of perception, the violence of colonialism: “c. 1930” was a time …
Antony Gormley work investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture …
James Casebere belongs to a generation of artists who have questioned the veracity of images from the beginning and for whom a …
The project “Talismans. The desert between us is only sand”, taking the form of an exhibition at Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian in Paris, …
Jonas Wood takes the motifs of interior domestic spaces and landscapes as his subject, using a range of formal techniques to create …
Chris Huen Sin Kan’s work is the contemporary style of en plein air. Each painting is a scene of a frozen moment …
Per Kirkeby is not only a leading painter, sculptor and printmaker, but also a prolific writer, poet, and filmmaker. Entrenched in the …
In her sculptures, photographs and collages, Nicole Wermers connects formal considerations with a discussion about urban space and its social, economical and …
Growing up in Japan, Shio Kusaka had little interest in art. But her grandmother led traditional tea ceremonies, and those rituals helped …
Michelangelo Pistoletto believes that artists have as mission to change the world. Since the ‘60s Michelangelo Pistoletto’s work has followed two paths, …
