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Thea Djordjadze, listening the pressure that surrounds you (Installation view) , Sprüth Magers-Berlin (30/4-25/6/16), Courtesy Sprüth Magers Gallery

ART CITIES:Berlin-Thea Djordjadze

Combining traditional materials of sculpture such as plaster and wood with everyday objects, Thea Djordjadze creates installations of sculptural objects that are sited to respond to one another and the space of their installation. Her work is characterized by tensions between materials and forms. Geometric constructions drawn from modernist architecture …

Ho Szu-Wei, Blue Egg, 2012, Taipei Cultural Center Archive

ART-PRESENTATION: HER Gaze

HER Gaze, presents the work of eight Taiwanese female artists who live in Taiwan or the United States. Feminism is not a …

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 …

Cindy Sherman, Exhibition View, Metro Pictures Gallery Archive

PHOTO:Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is a contemporary master of socially critical photography. She is a key figure of the “Pictures Generation”. At first painting …

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 …

Books & Rivers, Exhibition View, Gagosian Gallery Archive

BOOK:Books & Rivers

From the Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2100 BC) to the present day, rivers have called artists to create work meditating on their …

Martin Munkácsi

PHOTO:Martin Munkácsi

In 1933, photographer Martin Munkácsi (18/5-1896-13/7/1963), made history and changed the world of photography forever when he took the first spontaneous fashion …

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 …

Il Monumento Continuo (Piazza Navona), 1970, Superstudio Archive

ARCHITECTURE: Superstudio 50

Superstudio was an architecture firm, founded in 1966 in Florence, Italy by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, later joined by …

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 …