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Haegue Yang, Yearning Melancholy Red, 2008. Aluminum venetian blinds, powder-coated aluminum hanging structure, steel wire rope, mirror, moving spotlights, infrared heater, timer, fan, drum kit, trigger, MIDI converter, cable, 362 x 1450 x 1571 cm. Courtesy of Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin. Installation view of Asymmetric Equality, REDCAT, Los Angeles, USA, 2008 Photos: Scott Groller

ART-PRESENTATION: Haegue Yang-In the Cone of Uncertainty

Haegue Yang’s ongoing research is empowered by underlying references to art history, literature, and political history, through which she re-interprets some of her recurrent themes: migration, postcolonial diasporas, enforced exile, and social mobility. As a result, her works link various geopolitical contexts and histories in an attempt to understand and …

Carol Bove, The First Braid (detail), 2019, © Carol Bove, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Carol Bove

Known for works that incorporate found and constructed elements with a unique formal, technical, and conceptual inventiveness, Carol Bove stands as one …

Stan Douglas, A Luta Continua, 1974, 2012, Digital C-print mounted on aluminum, 120.7 x 181 cm. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner

ART-PREVIEW:Stan Douglas-Splicing Block

Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films and photographs and more recently theater productions, augmented reality and other multidisciplinary projects, …

ART CITIES:Brussels-Rudolf Polanszky

Rudolf Polanszky is considered a key figure in the Actionist and Post-Actionist Movement with his conceptual oeuvre which aims to bring abstract …

ART NEWS:Oct.04

The exhibition “Migration: Traces in an Art Collection” engages a range of artistic expressions of the migrant experience, while examining the museum …

Left: Alina Szapocznikow, Cendrier de Célibataire I (The Bachelor's Ashtray I), 1972, Coloured polyester resin and cigarette butts, © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, Photo: Fabrice . Right: Alina Szapocznikow, Tumeur (Tumor), 1970, Coloured polyester resin and gauze, 4.6 x 6.5 x 8 cm, © ADAGP, Paris. Courtesy The Estate of Alina Szapocznikow / Piotr Stanislawski / Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, Photo: Fabrice Gousset

ART CITIES:N.York-Alina Szapocznikow

A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint …

Grégoire Beil, National Narrative, 2018, vidéo, 63’, Courtesy of the artist

ART-TRIBUTE:Future, Former, Fugitive

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

Sean Scully, Celtique, Exhibition view, Château de Boisgeloup-Gisors, 2019, Courtesy the artist and Almine Rech Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Sean Scully-Celtique

While known primarily for his large-scale abstract paintings, comprised of vertical and horizontal bands, tessellating blocks and geometrical forms comprised of gradated …

PHOTO:Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has …

Jason Rhoades, Tijuanatanjierchandelier (2006), Installation view: CAC Málaga (2006), © The Estate of Jason Rhoades, Courtesy The Estate of Jason Rhoades, David Zwirner, and Hauser & Wirth

ART CITIES:New York-Jason Rhoades

Jason Rhoades is known for monumental, room-filling installations. These idiosyncratic sculptures incorporate a wide range of objects including products of mass culture …

ART-PRESENTATION: Ciprian Mureşan

Working with a variety of media, (drawing, video, objects, photography, and books), Ciprian Mureşan recontextualizes and deconstructs the works of well known …

ART CITIES:Basel-Len Lye

Born in Christchurch, New Zealand (ΝΖ), Len Lye (is one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the period 1930-1960. Living first …

James Siena, Cascade Effect, Installation view, Xippas Gallery Paris, 2019, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery

ART CITIES:Paris-James Siena

James Siena is a seminal artist on the New York art scene. His work, by turns lithographs, engravings, drawings and paintings, involves …

Ali Banisadr, The Builder, 2019, Oil on Linen, 66x88 inches, © Ali Banisadr, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

ART CITIES:Paris-Ali Banisadr

Born in Tehran in 1976, Ali Banisadr grew up during the Islamic revolution and the eight-year Iran-Iraq War. In 1988, he and …