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Damián Ortega, Borromeo’s Knots 3, 2011, © Damián Ortega, Photo: © Stephen White, Courtesy White Cube and Malmö Konsthall

ART-PRESENTATION: Damián Ortega-Casino

Damián Ortega is among the main protagonists of the renewal of Contemporary Mexican art, born during the last two decades of the 20th Century in response to social and political disillusionment that swept through the country and its artistic traditions, characterized by an emphasis on national identity. The artist’s work …

Sonia Kacem, Bermuda Triangle, 2015, Exhibition View Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Photo: Gunnar Meier, Courtesy Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève

ART CITIES:Geneva -Sonia Kacem

The work of the Swiss-Tunisian artist Sonia Kacem is driven by the deeply intuitive and sensual relationship she has with her chosen …

ART NEWS:May 03

Following the scientific examination and conservation carried out in 2015 on Jackson Pollock’s “Alchemy” (1947), the conservation department of the Peggy Guggenheim …

Vanessa Alessi, W-HOLE TEMPELHOF, Berlin 2014, Courtesy Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

ART CITIES:Turin-Passo Dopo Passo

The exhibition “Passo Dopo Passo” seeks to examine diverse historical and contemporary artworks and artistic practices that reflect on the status of …

Daniel Buren, L'Observatoire de la lumière, 2016, Fondation Louis Vuitton Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Daniel Buren

Since the ‘60s Buren’s critical analysis of painting , attempting to refine the act to an elemental form , led him to …

Lee Krasner, Untitled (detail), 1949, Robert Miller Gallery Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: Lee Krasner

The work of Lee Krasner was overshadowed by her husband, Jackson Pollock.  While Pollock’s rugged persona and large-scale, wildly painted works would …

Im Heung-soon, Factory Complex (Videostill), 2014, © Im Heung-soon, Courtesy Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art

ART-PRESENTATION: Women at Work

Whereas first-wave feminism focused mainly on suffrage and overturning legal obstacles to gender equality, second-wave feminism broadened the debate to a wide …

Jeronimo Voss, Inverted Night Sky

ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Jeronimo Voss

Jeronimo Voss’ exhibition “Inverted Night Sky” is inspired by charcoal drawings of the Milky Way found in the Anton Pannekoek Institute for …

Liza Lou, detail, 2016, © Liza Lou, Photo: Dean Elliot, Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:Salzburg -Liza Lou

With an emphasis on repetition, formal perfection and materiality, Liza Lou’s sculptures and environments thrive on the tension between the apparent impossibility …

Jordan Wolfson, Colored sculpture, 2016, Installation View, Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ-London and David Zwirner-New York

ART CITIES:N.York-Jordan Wolfson

Jordan Wolfson’s practice in the past 12 years has included video, film, installation, performance, print photography. Since 2009 he has focused on …

Anish Kapoor, Untitled, 2014, Lisson Gallery Archive

ART-PREVIEW:Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor’s work reflects upon metaphysical polarities including presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place and the solid and the …

Romuald Hazoumè, Rat-singer : Second only to God!, 2013, © Romuald Hazoumè/ADAGP 2016, Photo:Thomas Lannes, Gagosian Gallery Archive

ART CITIES:Paris-Romuald Hazoumè

The work of Romuald Hazoumè deals with the social and political history of Africa and Africa’s dynamic, ever-changing role within the international …

ART NEWS:May 02

“Tropisms”, a new project by Davide Zucco, shows a single installation, of which the central object will shift in space throughout the …

Yngve_Holen, Hater Headlight, 2015, Photo: Robert Glowacki Photography, Courtesy the artist and Modern Art-London

ART CITIES:Basel -Yngve Holen

Yngve Holen uses sculpture and imaging techniques to explore themes of transportation, technology, and the body. The multiple series of works he …