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Sarah Lucas (23/10/1962- ) is a radical artist who uses everyday objects and a sharp, humorous language to overturn conventional representations of the female body. As one of the key figures of the 1990s Young British Artists (YBA) movement, Lucas works across sculpture, photography, and installation to challenge gender norms, …
The Italian artist, sculptor and performer Pino Pascali (19/10/1935-11/9/1968), was one of the most important Italian artists of the ‘60s and took …
Carolee Schneemann (12/10/1939-6/3/2019), transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is …
Sophie Calle (9/10/1953- ), one of France’s leading Conceptual artists. Her work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, …
Mimmo Rotella (7/10/1918-8/1/2006), was an Italian artist famous for his décollage technique, in which he tore posters from city walls and transformed …
A pioneering Surrealist artist, Meret Oppenheim (6/10/1913-15/11/1985), transformed everyday items into provocative, dreamlike symbols. Best known for her iconic fur-covered teacup, “Object” …
Brice Marden’s (5/10/1938-9/8/2023) works derive from highly specific personal experiences, much like those of Frank Stella, and without knowledge of those personal …
Chen Zhen (4/10/1955-13/12/2000) was a Chinese-born contemporary artist known for exploring identity, migration, illness, and cultural exchange. Based between China and Europe, …
Katharina Grosse (2/10/1961- ) is internationally recognised for her bold, haptic paintings and saturated use of colour. Since the late 1990s, Grosse …
Walter de Maria (1/10/1935-25/7/2013), perhaps most significantly developed a conceptual approach to earth-based works that both used the landscape as immersive “canvas” …
Ilya Kabakov (30/9/1933-27/5/2023), was an artist of note in two distinctly polar disciplines. While living in the Soviet Union for 30 years, …
Joel Shapiro (27/9/1941-14/6/2025), who created abstract geometric sculpture that elicits a sense of movement and engages viewers’ physical and psychological relationships with …
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Mark Rothko (25/9/1903-25/2/1970), he was one of the most important American painters. After his …
Peter Halley (24/9/1953- ) is one of the most emblematic artists of his generation, recognized in the history of contemporary painting as …
In order to understand the world, the sculptor and conceptual artist Carl Matt Mullican (18/9/1951- ) seeks to organize it. In myriad …
Carl Andre (16/9/1935-24/1/2024) during the ‘60s and ‘70s, produced a number of sculptures which are now counted among the most innovative of …
Lucas Samaras (14/9/1936-7/3/2024) is not the best-known artist in America, but among the experts he is considered a wizard, and among artists …
Robert Irwin’s (12/9/1928-25/10/2023) practice, which is often associated with the California-based Light and Space movement, encompasses painting and sculpture, installations, landscape projects, …
Pierre Huyghe (11/9/1962- ) works often present themselves as complex systems characterized by a wide range of life forms, inanimate things and …
Sol LeWitt (9/9/1928-8/4/2007), was pivotal in the creation of the new radical aesthetic of the ‘60s that was a revolutionary contradiction to …
Dennis Oppenheim (6/9/1938-21/1/2011) has been a pioneer of Conceptual Art, Land Art, Body Art, Video, and Sculpture since the late ‘60s. He …
Christian Boltanski (6/9/1944-14/7/2021) is known for a body of work that may be considered a disturbing archive of our social, cultural, ethnic, …
John Cage’s (5/9/1912-12/8/1992) innovations with sound, instrumentation, performance, and composition all helped redefine music in the twentieth century. More specifically, his use …
Ai Weiwei (28/8/1957- ) is an artist, architectural designer, curator, and social activist and perhaps the best-known Chinese Contemporary artist. His formal …
