ART CITIES, Page 83
Two artists with different background in education present their solo exhibitions at Christopher Grimes Gallery in Los Angeles. Pia Fries studied sculpture in Lucerne and painting under Gerhard Richter at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1986 and Sharon Ellis that studied at the University of California in 1978 and in Oakland …
In his work, Délio Jasse often interweaves found images with clues from past lives from found photos or family albums, to draw …
Living and working in Alexandria, Wael Shawky has received international acclaim for his work as an artist and filmmaker, exploring transitional …
A forerunner of Op Art and Kinetic Art, a founder member of Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel, Julio Le Parc is a …
Beatriz Milhazes is well known for her colorful, kaleidoscopic collages, prints, paintings and installations which draw on both Latin American cultural imagery …
Francesco Clemente explores individual identity, and the various means for its construction by constantly questioning the idea of a singular self. Clemente’s …
For more than 30 years Rosemarie Trockel has resisted an identifiable style, working in a variety of materials and a range of …
Douglas Gordon makes videos, installations, photographs and text pieces, using both found and original material, in an attempt to lay bare the …
Ai WeiWei is an inspirational figure for many people both in the West and in China, and both in and outside the …
Why have animals not been subject of greater interest in contemporary conversations and historical discourses in the arts? With this question as …
Since the late ‘70s, Mike Kelley has produced a body of work that takes as its target notions of taste, morality, authority, …
Jerwood Open Forest is an artist-centred initiative established by Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Forestry Commission England. The 2016 exhibition examines art in …
Tom Wesselmann is one of the leading figures of Pop Art. He is best known for his career-spanning series, “Great American Nude,” …
Phyllida Barlow’s work questions the nature and role of the sculptural object in contemporary culture, utilising an extensive, fluid vocabulary and immense …
In his work since the late ‘60s, Joel Shapiro is well known for his geometric, abstract sculptures. In these sculptures that often …
Iván Navarro was born in Santiago, in 1972, the year preceding the coup d’état that ousted Salvador Allende and instated Augusto Pinochet. …
The Tate Liverpool presents three exhibitions devoted in the work of Yves Klein, Edward Krasiński and Cécile B. Evans, the three artists …
Drawing on his personal experiences Mark Leckey returns frequently to the themes of desire and transformation, using a variety of media, including …
Since Urs Fischer first began showing his work, in the mid-‘90s, in Europe, he has produced an enormous number of objects, …
Josephine Meckseper’s work conflates the aesthetic language of Modernism with the formal languages of commercial display and advertising. In her shop window …
Born and raised in England, Bharti Kher moved to New Delhi in the early ‘90s, and today, like most of her contemporaries, …
How can the suggestive power of images be activated? What effect is generated by the conjunction of images and text? How do …
In 2001 Rebecca Howe Quaytman began applying a system with which to make all paintings into the future. One element of this system …
Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich. It arose as a reaction to World War I and the …
