ART CITIES, Page 87
The borderlines in art history are at times bound to be vague. As culture was perceived to have come into its own, the ancient phenomenon of nature art (see Stonehenge) was defined as one of the main branches of the fine arts, associated with body and environmental art, while retaining …
Growing up near Los Angeles, Manny Krakowski had observed phenomena such consumerism, industry and advertising that supports it. His relationship with daily …
Katharina Fritsch vividly unites the personal and the collective. Her works oscillate between melancholy, light-heartedness and escapism, and between illusion and sublimation. …
The history of abstraction in the West charts a clear trajectory, beginning in the early 20th Century and the work of artists …
After their 2016 University of North Carolina Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition at Weatherspoon Art Museum, 7 women artists, present their …
Matthew Higgs is an English artist, curator, writer and publisher, strongly influenced by the tradition of text-based Conceptual Art, he depended consistently …
As a performance artist, trained as a sculptor, Tamar Ettun’s artistic practice incorporates both movement and stillness. The duality has a symbolical …
Paulo Bruscky is one of the world’s first artists to manipulate the xerox machine as an aesthetic device. He has played a …
Founded in 1979, The Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is the only museum in Los Angeles devoted exclusively to contemporary Art. In …
Amar Kanwar has distinguished himself through films and multi-media works, which explore the politics of power, violence and justice. His multi-layered installations …
Jill Kroesen was an essential figure in the ‘70s New York, working at the intersection of experimental music and then-emerging Performance art. …
An artist with a relentlessly “constructionalistic impulse” Katinka Theis works in the space between sculpture and architecture. Transforming structures from the world …
Gildas Coudrais experiments with the most different pictures that spring from media, advertisement, family albums as well as from examples of the …
Kimsooja has approached women’s labor of sewing from a different angle and expanded it to a larger context of society. She refuses …
Much has been said and written about Jannis Kounellis’ involvement with the Arte Povera Movement. His iconic works encompassing the objet trouvé …
Keith Sonnier reinvented sculpture in the late ‘60s. Employing unusual materials that had never before been used, Sonnier, along with his contemporaries, …
Sterling Ruby works in a wide range of mediums, from glazed biomorphic ceramics and poured urethane sculptures, to large-scale spray-painted canvases, nail …
Alex Katz long before the protagonists of Pop Art, such as Andy Warhol, adopted the principle of serialism, and influenced an entire …
Atsushi Saga’s painted surfaces have such a perfect finish that they could be mistaken for manufactured products. Their sheen enables the viewer …
Like many other countries, in the eyes of a foreigner Brazil might seem to be a destination of nonstop sunshine, sex, and …
Involving over 60 participants from around the world, “The People’s Cinema” includes an exhibition, 3 cinematic pavilions and 3 lectures, the project …
The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) opened to the public on 28/11/95. The permanent collection of around 5,000 works focus on …
Exploring reality and virtual space, the group exhibition “ZERO ZERO”, presents works by artists who employ both traditional materials and/or digital media …
Through the use of wit and humor, Damián Ortega deconstructs both familiar objects and processes, altering their functions and transforming them into …
