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Friedrich Kunath, Yes and No, It Was Late, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, Two parts; 60 x 48 x 1 1/2 inches each, © Friedrich Kunath, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe

ART CITIES:N.York-Friedrich Kunath

Inextricably entwining the experience of the ordinary with the sublime, Friedrich Kunath’s work explores interior sensation, recontextualization and abstraction, and oppositional relationships that propel emotional experience. Within his painting, installation, and sculpture, images and objects build upon themselves in a layered stream of consciousness driven by the autobiographical, the conceptual, …

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 …

Subodh Gupta, Exhibition view: Subodh Gupta. Adda / Rendez-vous, Monnaie de Paris, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Monnaie de Paris-Paris

BOOK:Subodh Gupta, SKIRA Editore

The monograph “Subodh Gupta” by SKIRA Editore accompany the first Retrospective dedicated to Subodh Gupta in France, which took place at 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 …

Kimsooja, Bottari-truck – Migrateurs, 2007-09, Color photograph, 128 x 182,5 x 25,5 cm light box. Musée national de l’histoire de l’immigration Collection, Photo: © Thierry Depagne, Courtesy of MAC VAL and Kimsooja Studio

MIRAGES XLVIIII

Looking at Kimsooja’s artwork from the exhibition “Persona grata” at the Museums: Le Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne and le Musée national …

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, …