ART, Page 189
David Ostrowski’s work is characterized by the use of a reduced color palette on vast, nearly empty fields covered with occasional gestures and marks. In a minimalist and seemingly nonchalant style, the artist applies lacquer, spray paint and found materials – which he uses also for his collages. His compositions …
Over the past three decades Lisa Yuskavage has developed her own genre of the female nude: lavish, erotic, cartoonish, vulgar, angelic young …
Paolo Icaro, born in 1936 in Turin as Pietro Paolo Chissotti, is an Italian artist known for his sculptures and paintings and …
The American filmmaker and artist Leslie Thornton creates vigorously experimental film and video. All her work delves into the mystery and ongoing …
Phoebe Unwin’s paintings shift between figuration and abstraction creating a personal register of images and marks: observations of reality, constructs of memory …
![Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, El Fin del Mundo (The End of the World) [Videostill], 2012, 2 channel HD video installation with sound, 13 min 35 sec, Courtesy of the artists and Gallery Hyundai](https://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Moon-Kyungwon-and-Jeon-Joonho-El-Fin-del-Mundo-The-End-of-the-World-2012-02-332x143.jpg)
The Korean artists Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho make work that addresses elemental questions concerning contemporary civilization in light of political, socioeconomic, …
Bridget Riley may be best known for her analysis of optical phenomena in geometrical black and white paintings that define her starting …
Hideaki Kawashima was born in Aichi, Japan in 1969, after graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 1991, Kawashima undertook two years of …
For the exhibition “La Vita Materiale: Otto Stanze, Otto Storie”, Marina Dacci has invited eight female Italian artists to showcase their works …
![Zineb Sedira, Un bus est arrêté à un barrage de terroristes (1990) [detail], 2018, Copper plate engraved with acid, 56 x 76 cm, Work in progress, © Zineb Sedira, Courtesy the artist and kamel mennour-Paris/London](https://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/0026-332x232.jpg)
Despite the considerable attention in recent years to Islamist movements in the Middle East and North Africa, the situation in Algeria often …
The son of the Surrealist painter Roberto Echaurren Matta, Gordon Matta-Clark was educated as an architect, but was drawn away from the …
In his work the Chypriot artist Theodoulos Gregoriou often uses geometrical shapes such as spheres, cones and cubes, on which he projects …
If Karl Marx’s theory of surplus-value is his most revolutionary contribution to economic science, his discovery of the basic long-term “Laws of …
Often associated with the Pop Art Movement, Alex Katz began exhibiting his work in 1954, and since that time he has produced …
Anna Bjerger’s paintings, which hide aluminium panels, get down a type of 21st Century photo-based impressionism that pushes far beyond the usual …
In more than sixty years, Ed Ruscha has built an oeuvre encompassing conceptual photographs, paintings, drawings, artist’s books, prints, and films that …
Blair Thurman’s influences range from Pop art and Minimalism to relics from childhood, popular music, and 1970s cinema. His standardized forms, pulled …
Minimalism can be seen as extending the abstract idea that art should have its own reality and not be an imitation of …
Jwan Yosef’s work, while minimal in execution, is loaded with political and autobiographical signifiers. Having emigrated with his family from Syria to …
Anna-Eva Bergman is regarded as one of the best Norwegian painters of the 20th Century, she was long overshadowed by her husband, …
By 1830, the price for a Navajo Chief’s Blanket was either 100 buffalo hides, 20 horses, 10 rifles, or 5 ounces of …
Zoe Leonard was born in Liberty, New York, in 1961. At age sixteen, she dropped out of high school and began to …
Paris Photo is the world’s largest Art Fair of photography, and is held annually since 1997 in the Grand Palais, Paris. The …
A preeminent artist of the 20th Century, Alberto Giacometti investigated the human figure for more than forty years. Giacometti was born in …
