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Leslie Thornton, Cut from Liquid to Snake, HD video, 22’ 6’’, Exhibition view “Speed” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 2018, © Leslie Thornton, Courtesy the artist & Rodeo Gallery-London/Piraeus

ART CITIES:London-Leslie Thornton

The American filmmaker and artist Leslie Thornton creates vigorously experimental film and video. All her work delves into the mystery and ongoing investigations into the production, creation and distribution of meaning through and within media. One finds that with Leslie Thornton both form and content are critical and inform each …

Left: Phoebe Unwin, Approach, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 183 x 153 cm, © Phoebe Unwin, Courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery-London. Center: Phoebe Unwin Headway, 2018, Oil on canvas, 51 x 41 cm, © Phoebe Unwin, Courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery-London. Right: Phoebe Unwin, Diverted Pedestrian, 2018, Oil on canvas, 72 x 50 cm, © Phoebe Unwin, Courtesy Amanda Wilkinson Gallery-London

ART-PRESENTATION: Phoebe Unwin-Field

Phoebe Unwin’s paintings shift between figuration and abstraction creating a personal register of images and marks: observations of reality, constructs of memory …

Hideaki Kawashima, grove, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 50.0 x 61.0 cm, © Hideaki Kawashima, Courtesy the artist and Tomio Koyama Gallery

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Hideaki Kawashima

Hideaki Kawashima was born in Aichi, Japan in 1969, after graduating from Tokyo Zokei University in 1991, Kawashima undertook two years of …

ART NEWS:Nov.04

For the exhibition “La Vita Materiale: Otto Stanze, Otto Storie”, Marina Dacci has invited eight female Italian artists to showcase their works …

Left: Valérie Belin, Bohemian-Glass-Cup, Pigment print, 173 x 130 cm, Edition of 6 + 2 AP, © Valérie Belin, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia. Right: Valérie Belin, Chinese-Coral-Red, Pigment print, 173 x 130 cm, Edition of 6 + 2 AP, © Valérie Belin, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Nathalie Obadia

PHOTO:Valérie Belin-China Girls

Initially influenced by various minimalist and conceptual tendencies, Valérie Belin became interested in the photographic medium in its own right; this is …

Jeff Wall, Siphoning Fuel, 2008, Color photograph, 186 × 235 cm, Edition of 2 + 1 AP, © Jeff Wall, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Laws of Motion

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 …

Anna Bjerger, Luminous/Night, 2018, Oil on aluminium, 85x100 cm, © Anna Bjerger, Courtesy the artist and Galleri Magnus Karlsson

ART CITIES:Stockholm-Anna Bjerger

Anna Bjerger’s paintings, which hide aluminium panels, get down a type of 21st Century photo-based impressionism that pushes far beyond the usual …

Left: Bettina Rheims, Close up of Karolina Kurkova, the most beautiful girl in town, Décembre 2001, Paris, 2001, From the series “Pourquoi m’as tu abandonnée?” Color Photograph, 156 x 126 cm, Framed: 164 x 134 x 4 cm, Edition 5 + 2 EA, © Bettina Rheims, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery. Right: Bettina Rheims, Portrait de Daria au vison blanc II, Septembre 2006, Paris, 2006, From the series “Pourquoi m’as tu abandonnée?” Color Photograph, Framed: 164 x 134 cm Edition 5 + 2 EA, © Bettina Rheims, Courtesy the artist and Xippas Gallery

PHOTO:Bettina Rheims

After having already enjoyed careers as a model, journalist and gallerist, Bettina Rheims began to explore photography at the age of 26, …

Left: Blair Thurman, Double Pumpkin, 2015, Painting - Acrylic on canvas, wood, 149.9 x 66 x 12.1 cm, © Blair Thurman, Courtesy the artist and Peres projects. Right: Blair Thurman, Cheetos & Thanatos, 2017, Painting - Acrylic on canvas on wood, 236.2 x 114.3 x 10.2 cm, © Blair Thurman, Courtesy the artist and Peres projects

ART CITIES:Berlin-Blair Thurman

Blair Thurman’s influences range from Pop art and Minimalism to relics from childhood, popular music, and 1970s cinema. His standardized forms, pulled …