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Teresita Fernández, Borrowed Landscape, 1998, Wood, fabric, oculus light, pencil, and paint, dimensions variable, Commissioned by Artpace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art-San Antonio, Texas, Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin New York/Hong Kong/Seoul

ART-PRESENTATION:Teresita Fernández-Elemental

Based in New York, Teresita Fernández, who was born in 1968 in Miami to Cuban parents, is renowned for her prominent public installations and experiential sculptures. Through her practice, she explores perception and the psychology of looking, regularly manipulating light and space to create immersive, intimate, and evocative experiences. Using …

Salvatore Arancio, Exhibition view of Fashioned to a Device Behind a Tree 2015, Camden Arts Centre

ART FAIRS:FIAC 2019

One of the oldest and respectable Art Fairs, FIAC (founded in Paris in 1974), opens for its 46th Edition at the Grand …

Left: Nam June Paik, One Candle (Candle Projection)1989. Install view, Tate Modern 2019, Close-circuit television camera, tripod, candle on custom stand and four to six colour video projectors including modified CRT projectors, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, © Estate of Nam June Paik. Right: Nam June Paik, Magnet TV 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchased, with funds from Dieter Rosenkranz, © Estate of Nam June Paik

PRESENTATION: Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik internationally recognized as the “Father of Video Art,” created a large body of work including video sculptures, installations, performances, …

ART NEWS:Oct.03

Focusing on the fundamental question of how we coexist as a community, the 9th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3  in Slovenia under …

Paris Internationale

ART FAIRS:Paris Internationale 2019

Throughout the years, Paris Internationale has established itself as a new model in the ecosystem of international contemporary art fairs. Forward thinking …

Enzo Cucchi, Porta addormita, 2018, Ceramic and thermo-painted iron, courtesy the artist

ART-PRESENTATION: Enzo Cucchi

Since the very beginning of his career, Enzo Cucchi stood out as an artist of great originality against the backdrop of the …

Adrien Vescovi, Madras, Fabrics, natural pigments, variable dimensions, 2019, Variable dimensions Salins des Pesquiers, 34th Hyères Festival, Villa Noailles, Courtesy of the artist

ART-PREVIEW:Future, Former, Fugitive

The exhibition “Future, Former, Fugitive. A French scene” is based on an open conception of territorial placement – bringing together artists born …

Artwork © Urs Fischer

ART CITIES:Paris-Urs Fischer

Urs Fischer mines the potential of materials like: clay, steel, and paint to bread and dirt to create works that disorient and …

Mona Hatoum Hot Spot (stand) [Detail], 2018, Stainless steel, neon tube and rubber, 172 x 83 x 80 cm, Edition of 6 + 2 AP, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel-Paris. Photo : Florian Kleinefenn

ART-PREVIEW:Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum creates discomforting, challenging work that reveals the contradictions and uncertainties of our complex, confounding world. Using domestic and other familiar …

Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors, 2012, 9-channel video projection, Duration: 64 minutes, Photos: Elisabet Davids Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine-New York and i8 Gallery-Reykjavik

ART CITIES:Helsinki-Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson engages multiple artistic mediums, creating video installations, performances, drawings, and paintings that draw upon myriad historical and cultural references. An …

Pavel Pepperstein, The Dancing Woman, 2007, Watercolor and ink on paper, (Donation de la Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain, 2012 Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris © Pavel Pepperstein © Adagp, Paris)

ART-PREVIEW:A Passion for Drawing

Ever since the 1990s, Florence and Daniel Guerlain’s interest has been focused on contemporary drawing, and the two have by now accumulated …

ART NEWS:Oct.02

For his first significant presentation of Carlos Garaicoa’s work in Sweden, the exhibition “…a borderless reality, like gardens of the eternal…” consists …

Lee Krasner, Combat, 1965, 179 × 410,4 cm, National Gallery of Victoria-Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1992 (IC1-1992), © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2018 & The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ ARS-New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, 2018

ART-PREVIEW:Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner is considered one of the most critical figures in the evolution of American art in the second half of the …

Danh Vo, Cathedral Block Prayer Stage Gun Stock, Exhibition view at Marian Goodman Gallery-London, 2019, © Danh Vo, Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Danh Vo

Danh Vo was born in Vietnam and currently lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. Emerging from personal relationships and fortuitous …

Kara Walker, 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker, 2005, Video, black & white, audio; 15 min 57 sec, © Kara Walker. Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

ART CITIES:London-Kara Walker

Kara Walker’s instantly recognizable cut-paper silhouettes are visually striking and charged with racial, sexual, and historical tension, commenting on slavery, the Black …

Jeff Preiss. 14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981-1988, 2019, 8mm transferred to Digital Media, 90 min. Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Jeff Preiss

During the ’80s Jeff Preiss became involved in the production of experimental cinema. Work from this time was included in “Big as …