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Mario Merz, La goccia d’acqua, 1987, Installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca-Milan, 2018, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Photo: Renato Ghiazza, © Mario Merz, by SIAE 2018

ART CITIES:Milan-Mario Merz,Part II

Mario Merz started constructing igloos in 1968 and developed the idea thereafter, creating increasingly bigger and often structurally more complicated igloos. In …

Zheng Bo, Weed Plot II, 2016, Commissioned by Sifang Art Museum-Nanjing

ART CITIES:Turin-Zheng Bo

Zheng Bo is an artist, writer, and teacher, committed to socially and ecologically engaged art. He investigates the past and imagines the …

Stéphane Dafflon, PM070 (detail), 2018, © Stéphane Dafflon, courtesy the artist and Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle

ART-PRESENTATION: Stéphane Dafflon

Stéphane Dafflon’s paintings are simple at first glance, strangely smooth, however perfectly mastered. Made of geometric and abstract shapes with sharp contours …

Left: Günther Förg, Ohne Titel, 2004, 4-colour lithograph on white Bfk Rives Bόtten, 270grs/m², 80x60 cm - Ed. 60 + XX A.P., Courtesy Deweer Gallery. Right: Günther Förg, Ohne Titel, 1991, Acrylic on Canson, 200x148 cm / 210x158 cm, Courtesy Deweer Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Günther Förg

Günther Förg was as equally influential on the 20TH Century German art scene as, for example, Martin Kippenberger. He produced photographs and …

ART NEWS:Nov.01

Marie Losier’s mid-career retrospective “Just a Million Dreams” highlights two dozen short films and two feature length films made over the last …

Kamrooz Aram, Green Memorial, 2017, Green marble, linen on mdf, ceramic, brass, 13 × 14 × 14 in, Photo: Kevin Todora, Courtesy of the Artist and Green Art Gallery-Dubai

ART CITIES:N.York-Kamrooz Aram

Over the last few years, Kamrooz Aram’s paintings have sought to rehabilitate the status of ornament and pattern within modernist aesthetics. Challenging …

Yves Zurstrassen, 18 03 01 Contrepoint, 2018, Oil on canvas, 190 x 190 cm, courtesy the artist and Galerie Xippas

ART-PRESENTATION: Yves Zurstrassen

Yves Zurstrassen’s work is always moving, going from Lyrical Abstraction to Abstract Expressionism and vice versa. The artist develops a singular creating …

Left: Ryan Gander, 2000 year collaboration (The Prophet), 2018 Installation, Edition of 3 (+1 A.P.), © Ryan Gander, Courtesy the artist and gb agency-Paris. Right: Ryan Gander, Equivalent Economies and Equivalent Means, 2018 Installation, Edition of 1 (+1 A.P.), © Ryan Gander, Courtesy the artist and gb agency-Paris

ART CITIES:Paris-Ryan Gander

Ryan Gander is living and working in London and Suffolk, UK. Through associative thought processes that connect the everyday and the esoteric, …

Subodh Gupta, This is not a fountain, 2011–13. Old aluminum utensils, water, painted brass taps, PVC pipes, and motor, 65 x 190 x 309 inches (165.1 x 482.6 x 784.9 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery-Buffalo, New York; George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, by exchange and Charles Clifton Fund, by exchange, 2015 (2015:6). © 2011–2013 Subodh Gupta, Image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson

ART-PRESENTATION: We The People

Founded as The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy in 1862, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is the sixth-oldest public Art Museum in the United …

Left: Birgit Jürgenssen, Guten Morgen/Good Morning, 1972, Pencil, colored pencil on handmade paper, 62.8 x 43.5 cm, © Estate Birgit Jürgenssen, Courtesy Estate Birgit Jürgenssen and Gladstone Gallery-New York/Brussels. Right: Birgit Jürgenssen, Ohne Titel/Untitled, 1973, Tempera on cardboard, 60 x 34 cm, © Estate Birgit Jürgenssen, Courtesy Estate Birgit Jürgenssen and Gladstone Gallery-New York/Brussels

ART-PRESENTATION: Birgit Jürgenssen

Born and educated in Vienna, Birgit Jürgenssen died prematurely at the age of fifty-four. Her artwork received scant attention during her lifetime; …

Exhibition view: Fred Sandback-Le Fil d’Occam, Galerie Marian Goodman-Paris, 2018

ART CITIES:Paris-Fred Sandback

The American artist Fred Sandback (1943–2003) worked with elastic cord and acrylic yarn to delineate or bifurcate three-dimensional space, creating room-filling volumetric …

Martin Boyce, The Light Pours Out (detail), Painted panel, Photo © Martin Boyce, Esther Schipper Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Martin Boyce

Martin Boyce’s sculptures, photographs and installations poetically investigate the intersections between art, architecture, design, and nature. Since the beginning of his career, …