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Alex Katz, Black Hat 2, 2010, Courtesy of the artist and Richard Gray Gallery

ART CITIES: Chicago- Alex Katz

Alex Katz has always distanced himself from Art Movements, he has refuted the principles of Abstraction, whilst still being inspired by Pollock’s Action Paintings. Alex Katz does not consider his drawings preparatory sketches for paintings. Rather, when the artist starts to realize a drawing, long before oil touches canvas, he …

ART CITIES:Zurich-Angela Bulloch

Angela Bulloch’s work spans many forms, but they all manifest her interest in systems, patterns and rules, and the creative territory between …

ART CITIES:Paris-Helena Almeida

Helena Almeida from the beginning of her career has developed a body of work, which started with the process of exploring the …

Jason Gringler, Screens, 2016, Installation View, Solivagant* Archive

ART CITIES: N.York -Jason Gringler

In a practice centered on industrial materials, Jason Gringler forges new territory for Abstraction. Working with Plexiglas, aluminum tape, acrylic, mirrored glass, …

ART CITIES:N.York-Gary Simmons

Gary Simmons work draws from icons and stereotypes of the American popular culture and the politics of race on a global level. …

Alighiero Boetti

ART CITIES:London-Alighiero Boetti

Alighiero Boetti was born in Turin in 1940. His mother, Adelina Marchisio, supplemented her income as a violinist with an embroidery business. …

ART CITIES:London-Harmony Korine

Harmony Korine is known as the director of ”Spring Breakers” and for “Kids”, which was his debut film as a screenwriter in …

ART CITIES:N.York-Kenneth Noland

The American painter Kenneth Noland is associated with a number of American Abstract Art Movements, including: the Washington Colour Painter (a mini …

ART CITIES:Mexico City-G.T. Pellizzi

Born in Tlayacapan, Mexico, Giandomenico Tonatiuh Pellizzi better known as G.T. Pelizzi studied literature and philosophy at St. John’s College and graduated …

Otto Piene, Sundew and Selected Works 1957-2014, Exhibition View, Sperone Westwater Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:N.York-Otto Piene

Otto Piene was a key artist of the 20th Century avant-garde. In 1958, at their studio in Düsseldorf, Heinz Mack and Otto …

Tim Richard, First Aid at the Gate, 1975, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, acquired in 1975, Photo: mumok

ART CITIES:Vienna-Prosperous Poison

Structured as a narrative, the exhibition “Prosperous Poison” arranges holdings of mumok’s Collection from 1945 to the present. Presenting motifs, gestures and …

ART CITIES:London-Alberto Giacometti

The exhibition “Alberto Giacometti: In His Own Words (Sculptures 1925-1934)”, focuses on a series of sculptures from this crucial decade in Giacometti’s …

Darren Almond

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Darren Almond

Darren Almond’s diverse practice incorporates film, installation, sculpture and photography, to produce evocative meditations on time and duration as well as the …

This is Today, Installation View, Gazelli Art House Archive

ART CITIES: London -This is Today

In 1956 (9/8-9/9) the Whitechapel Gallery hosted the seminal exhibition “This is Tomorrow”, featuring members of the Independent Group of artists and …

ART CITIES: London-Line

Artists have done many marvellous things with the continuous line. They have taken it places, crawling off the page or squiggling into …