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Tom Sachs, The Laundress, 2015. Latex paint, polyurethane varnish, epoxy resin, plywood. Artwork: 40,6 x 68,6 x 68,6 cm. Pedestal: 104,1 x 55,9 x 55,9 cm, © Tom Sachs, Courtesy the artist and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Tom Sachs-Ritual

Tom Sachs is best known for his elaborate recreations of various Modern icons, all of them masterpieces of engineering and design of one kind or another. In an early show he made Knoll office furniture out of phone books and duct tape; later, he recreated Le Corbusier’s 1952 Unité d’Habitation …

Rudolf Polanszky, Reconstructions / Double Twin Pictures, 2020, Aluminum, resin, silicone, cardboard, transparent tape, acrylic glass, pigment, and acrylic on canvas, in artist’s frame, 83 ¼ × 102 ⅝ inches (211.4 × 260.5 cm), © Rudolf Polanszky. Photo: Jorit Aust, courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Paris-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 …

Shirin Neshat, Land of Dreams (Film still), 2019. © Shirin Neshat, Courtesy Shirin Neshat and Gladstone Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Shirin Neshat

Over the past three decades, Shirin Neshat has produced some of the most arresting imagery in contemporary art. The Iranian-born New York-based …

Christian Boltanski, Après

ART-PRESENTATION: Multiples, Inc

Marian Goodman Gallery presents the first historical exhibition of Multiples, Inc., the art publishing company founded by Marian Goodman and a few …

Left: Wyatt Kahn, Untitled (Green), 2019, Oil stick on lead panel, 237.5 x 172.5 cm, © Wyatt Kahn, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber. Right: Wyatt Kahn, Untitled, 2017, Lead on panel, 244.5 x 179 cm, © Wyatt Kahn, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber

ART CITIES:Zurich-Wyatt Kahn

Wyatt Kahn is primarily known for his investigations into the visual and spatial relationship between painting and sculpture. Using unprimed canvases stretched …

homas Ruff, from the series “tableau chinois”, 2019, C-Print, © Thomas Ruff/VG Bild Kunst, Bonn/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner

ART CITIES:Paris-Thomas Ruff

With his manipulations of photographs from many different sources, Thomas Ruff comments in an incredibly clever way on how we see images …

ART NEWS:Jan.02

The dystopian world that the Anthropocene bequeath to the future is a crucial focal point for contemporary South Korean artists. “Anthropocene: Korea …

Richard Artschwager, Double Color Study, 1965 Formica on wood, in 2 parts, each: 16 ⅛ × 13 ¾ × 4 ⅛ inches (41 × 35 × 10.5 cm), © 2020 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Roland Schmidt

ART CITIES:Rome-Richard Artschwager

Richard Artschwager forged a unique path in art from the early 1950s through the early twenty-first century, making the visual comprehension of …

Lu Chao, Cabinet No.3, 2020, Oil on canvas, 190 x 250 x 4,5 cm, © Lu Chao, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

ART CITIES:Brussels-Lu Chao

Lu Chao (studied oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (China) until 2012. Under the tutorship of the …

Mary Corse, Untitled (White Diamond, Negative Stripe), 1965, Private Collection, © Mary Corse

ART-PREVIEW:Pure Form

The term ‘abstract art’ is a rather vague umbrella term for any painting or sculpture which does not portray recognizable objects or …

Lorna Robertson, On a Scottish Shore, 2020, Oil on canvas, 190.5 x 299.7 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. © Lorna Robertson

ART CITIES:N.York-In Situ

Featuring new and recent paintings by twelve artists, the group exhibition “In Situ”, is using Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s* seminal 1892 text “The …

Ugo Rondinone

ART-PRESENTATION:Ugo Rondinone

Ugo Rondinone has garnered international attention for his poetic, evocative work across a wide range of styles and media. Often working on …

Tara Donovan, Stacked Grid, 2020, plastic, 9' × 9' × 13' (274.3 cm × 274.3 cm × 396.2 cm), © Tara Donovan, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART-PREVIEW:Tara Donovan-Intermediaries

Tara Donovan’s large-scale installations, sculptures, drawings, and prints utilize everyday objects to explore the transformative effects of accumulation and aggregation. By identifying …