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Iván Navarro, Planetarium, Exhibition view Le Centquatre-Paris, 2021, Courtesy the artist and Le Centquatre

ART CITIES:Paris-Iván Navarro

Born in 1972 in Santiago, Iván Navarro grew up under the Pinochet dictatorship. He uses light as his raw material, turning objects into electric sculptures and transforming the exhibition space by means of visual interplay. His work is certainly playful, but is also haunted by questions of power, control and …

Ceija Stojka, Untitled, 1995, Acrylic on cardboard, 69,5 x 99 cm, Collection Antoine de Galbert-Paris, Photo: © Célia Pernot

ART-PRESENTATION: Ceija Stojka

Austrian-Roma artist Ceija Stojka was a self-taught painter and narrator, and author of a late-blooming literary and pictorial body of work developed …

ART NEWS:Jan.04

Since the invention of the moving image, women have created films and videos that have changed how people see and experience the …

Charles Gaines, Multi-Racial/Ethnic Combinations Series 1, Set A: Face #11, Martina Crouch (Nigerian Igbo Tribe/White (detail), 2020, acrylic paint, acrylic sheet and photograph, 96.5 x 81.3 x 8.9cm/38 x32 x 3 ½ in., Photo Fredrik Nilsen, © Charles Gaines, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Charles Gaines

Since the late 1970s, Charles Gaines is highly regarded as an important exponent of conceptual art. In his drawings, works on paper …

ngel Otero, Lucky Mirror, 2020, Oil paint and fabric collaged on canvas, 213.4 x 274.3 x 3.8 cm / 84 x 108 x 1 1/2 in., © Angel Otero, Courtesy the artist and Lehman Maupin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Angel Otero

Angel Otero is best known for his process-based paintings, collages, and sculptural works that venerate the inherent qualities of his material of …

Liza Lou, Both Sides, Now, 2021 (detail), © Liza Lou, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery

ART-PREVIEW:Liza Lou-Both Sides, Now

Liza Lou’s boundary-breaking work first gained international attention when her sculpture, “Kitchen” (1991-96), was shown at the New Museum in New York …

Xu Ning, Oil painting in history – Freedom, 2020, oil on canvas, 248.5 x 333.0 cm, © Xu Ning, Courtesy the artist and Tomio Koyama Gallery

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Xu Ning

Xu Ning was born in 1979, in Beijing, China. She moved to Japan with her family in 2006 after graduating with a …

François Morellet, Rouge pair - Bleu impair n° 5, 2012, Eleven red neon tubes and 9 blue argon tubes, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 100 cm / 47 1/4 x 39 3/8 in, © François Morellet/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris, Courtesy Estate Morellet

ART CITIES:N.York-François Morellet

A prolific self-taught painter, sculptor, and installation artist, François Morellet, developed a radical approach to geometric abstraction during a career spanning more …

Anselm Kiefer, die sieben Schalen des Zorns (The Seven Bowls of Wrath), 2019–20 Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, straw, and gold leaf on canvas, 185 ⅛ × 330 ¾ inches (470 × 840 cm), © Anselm Kiefer, Photo: Georges Poncet, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Paris-Anselm Kiefer

Over the past forty years, Kiefer’s practice has developed through the accumulation, mingling and reworking of themes, motifs and constellations which recur …

ART NEWS:Jan.03

The exhibition “Reflection Paper” is a ‘clinic’ where abstract thoughts and emotions are brought together from Evelyn Taocheng Wang’s  reading of a …

Phyllida Barlow, untitled: ceremonial monument; 2020, 2020, Acrylic on watercolour paper, 31 x 40.9 cm / 12 1/4 x 16 1/8 in, © Phyllida Barlow, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Gallery

ART CITIES:Zurich-Phyllida Barlow

For more than 50 years, Phyllida Barlow has taken inspiration from her surroundings to create imposing installations that can be at once …

Rudolf Polanszky, Reconstructions / Double Twin Pictures, 2020, Aluminum, resin, silicone, cardboard, transparent tape, acrylic glass, pigment, and acrylic on canvas, in artist’s frame, 83 ¼ × 102 ⅝ inches (211.4 × 260.5 cm), © Rudolf Polanszky. Photo: Jorit Aust, courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Paris-Rudolf Polanszky

Rudolf Polanszky is considered a key figure in the Actionist and Post-Actionist movement with his conceptual oeuvre which aims to bring abstract …

Shirin Neshat, Land of Dreams (Film still), 2019. © Shirin Neshat, Courtesy Shirin Neshat and Gladstone Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Shirin Neshat

Over the past three decades, Shirin Neshat has produced some of the most arresting imagery in contemporary art. The Iranian-born New York-based …

Christian Boltanski, Après

ART-PRESENTATION: Multiples, Inc

Marian Goodman Gallery presents the first historical exhibition of Multiples, Inc., the art publishing company founded by Marian Goodman and a few …