ART CITIES, Page 94
Grounded in painting, Matt Saunders’ work crosses boundaries between that medium, photography, and short animated films. He often works with oil, metallic ink, and cut paper on both sides of Mylar sheets or unprimed canvas. Through an early introduction to the performative films of Jack Smith and Andy Warhol, Saunders …
Beginning in the late ‘60s, Joan Jonas created a groundbreaking series of works that established her as one of the pioneering forces …
Cheryl Donegan is one of the voices in contemporary art whose work frequently moves between the worlds of video and painting. She …
Much of Julian Charrière’s work is concerned with time, the continuous cycle of past, present and future, as well as sudden and …
Mark Grotjahn’s paintings and drawings are light-hearted takes on geometric abstraction. Many of his works use his “butterfly model” of skewed perspectival …
Michael Stevenson’s work re-tells recent histories using allegory in and amongst historical facts. His work (paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations and film) utilises …
Following the Climate Conference held in Paris in December 2015, Istanbul Modern welcomes 2016 with an exhibition that honors nature and focuses …
Cally Spooner uses theory, philosophers, current affairs and pop cultural figures as alibis to help her write, and casts of arguing characters …
Davide Quayola is a visual artist and digital art pioneer from Rome. He explores the complex relationship between form and space, innovation …
Internationally recognized for his startling use of materials, Vik Muniz creates stunning images, while investigating the history of art and of visual …
Edmund de Waal (Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal), is best known for his large scale installations of porcelain vessels. Much of Edmund’s …
Chiharu Shiota is a Japanese Performance and Installation artist best known for creating room-filling, monumental, delicate and poetic environments. Central to the …
Celia Perrin Sidarous presents intuitively organized collages and sculptural assemblages that consider collections of objects and how they are transformed by the …
William Kentridge is the child of Jewish liberal lawyers who defended victims of apartheid in South Africa, and moral and complex political …
Salvatore Emblema’s work was strongly influenced by his environment. Born in the Terzingo on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, where he spent …
Daido Moriyama is one of Japan’s leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed post WWII Japan, his black …
For Juliendes Des Monstiers, each painting constitutes a whole, the different styles of which can be understood in their entirety that ultimately …
Swiss artist Milo Moire has unveiled a new Performance in Cologne, possibly her most serious to date. She staged a naked protest …
James Welling has been questioning the norms of representation since the ‘70s. His work centers on an exploration of photography, shuffling the …
Black Mountain College (BMC) was an experimental school founded in 1933 on the principles of balancing academics, arts, and manual labor within …
Times Square’s Midnight Moment is an art initiative by Times Square Arts in which all of the billboards in Times Square synchronize …
The Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is well known for her dazzling approach to geometric abstraction, primarily in the mirror reliefs and …
The work of Portuguese artists João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva, who have worked collaboratively since 2001 from the “InMemory” exhibition at …
Grayson Perry is mainly for his ceramic vases and cross-dressing. Perry’s vases have classical forms and are decorated in bright colours, depicting …
