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Leong Leong, Float Tank 01, 2018, Industrial stainless-steel tank with diverse materials, water, and salt from the Salt Valley of Añana, 267.5 x 231.7 cm (base); 231.7 cm (top diameter), 204.7 cm (top height), 70.9 cm (low height), © Leong Leong, Courtesy Leong Leong, New York

ART CITIES:Bilbao Architecture Effects

The point of departure of the exhibition “Architecture Effects” is the reappraisal of a timeless question “What makes architecture more than just …

Fernand Léger and Charlotte Perriand, Essential Happiness, New Pleasures. Pavilion of Agriculture, Paris, International Exhibition (Joies essentielles, plaisirs nouveaux. Pavillon de l'Agriculture, Paris, Exposition Internationale) 1937–2011, Acrylic paint, collage and print on paper on board, 3500 x 9410 mm, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía-Madrid Donated by Archives Charlotte Perriand-Pernette Perriand Barsac, Paris, 2012, © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2018. Photographic Archives Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

ART CITIES:Liverpool-Fernand Léger

Though Fernand Léger built his reputation as a Cubist, his style varied considerably from decade to decade, fluctuating between figuration and abstraction …

Sylvie Fleury, Playdate Collection, (Water Slide Blue), 2018, Acrylic on canvas on wood, 15 kgs, 57,7 x 180,5 x 6,5 cm, Photo: Charles Duprat, © Sylvie Fleury, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:Paris-Sylvie Fleury

Born in 1961 in Geneva, where she continues to live and work, Sylvie Fleury emerged in the early 90’s as a significant …

Thomas Ruff, Jpeg la01, 2007, c-print, 296 x 188 cm, Courtesy Private Collection

ART-PRESENTATION: Signal or Noise

The exhibition “Signal or Noise-The Photographic II” is the second part of a diptych exhibition in spread over two years and is …

Paulina Olowska, Univermag GUM (Episode GUM video still), 2018, Four HD videos with color, sound. Parade: 12’ 15’’; Winter: 3’ 40’’; GUM: 4’ 35’’; Airport: 4’ 29’’, © Paulina Olowska, Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures

ART-PRESENTATION: Paulina Olowska-Belavia

Within Paulina Olowska’s practice, industry, leisure, and socialist symbolism occupy the same visual and cultural space. Her realist paintings, drawings, and collages …

John Bock, Unheil (2018), Set photo with Jose Marlit Schneider und Effi Rabsilberm, © John Bock, Photo: Martin Sommer, Courtesy Sprüth Magers

ART CITIES:Berlin-John Bock

John Bock uses the form of performance as artistic medium, combining theater, video, installation and sculpture. Most of his early actions or …

Brent Wadden, Untitled, 2018, Handwoven fibers, wool, cotton and acrylic on canvas, 232 cm × 232 cm × 4 cm, © Brent Wadden, Courtesy Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Brent Wadden

Working within the vein of assemblage, Brent Wadden makes paintings by piecing together his hand-woven weavings to create large scale, hard-edge geometric …

Antonio Cosentino, Anhalter Bahnhof, 2017, Tin, 72,5 x 50 x 58 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Zilberman Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION:An Exile on Earth

Having left their countries to live and produce elsewhere, Juan Goytisolo* and Tezer Özlü perceived themselves at times as travelers and at …

Lisa Yuskavage, Little Outskirts, 2010-2011, Oil on linen, Diptych Each: 25.7 x 20.3 cm) Overall: 25.7 x 41 cm), © Lisa Yuskavage, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Lisa Yuskavage

Over the past three decades Lisa Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young …

Leslie Thornton, Cut from Liquid to Snake, HD video, 22’ 6’’, Exhibition view “Speed” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2018, © Leslie Thornton, Courtesy the artist & Rodeo Gallery-London/Piraeus

ART CITIES:London-Leslie Thornton

The American filmmaker and artist Leslie Thornton creates vigorously experimental film and video. All her work delves into the mystery and ongoing …

Left: Phoebe Unwin, Approach, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 183 x 153 cm, © Phoebe Unwin, Courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery-London. Center: Phoebe Unwin Headway, 2018, Oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm, © Phoebe Unwin, Courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery-London. Right: Phoebe Unwin, Diverted Pedestrian, 2018, Oil on canvas, 72 x 50 cm, © Phoebe Unwin, Courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery-London

ART-PRESENTATION: Phoebe Unwin-Field

Phoebe Unwin’s paintings shift between figuration and abstraction creating a personal register of images and marks: observations of reality, constructs of memory …

Hideaki Kawashima, grove, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 50.0 x 61.0 cm, © Hideaki Kawashima, Courtesy the artist and Tomio Koyama Gallery

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Hideaki Kawashima

Hideaki Kawashima was born in Aichi, Japan in 1969, after graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 1991, Kawashima undertook two years of …