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ART NEWS:Apr.03

For the exhibition “Becoming Soil”, Ugo Rondinone turns the Carré d’Art space into a vast landscape associating the large paintings of starry nights and the monumental landscapes done in Indian ink or large blue skies. The exhibition reveals the artist’s attachment to what may be termed the “classical” media, namely …

Mario Daniele, Palco Scènico #2, 2016, Courtesy Mario Daniele & Riccardo Costantini Contemporary

ART FAIRS:MIA Photo Fair 2016

MIA Photo Fair conceived in 2011, is based on a unique element of innovation that distinguishes MIA Photo Fair from traditional Italian …

Ralf Baecker, Order+Noise (Interface I), NOME Archive

ART CITIES:Berlin-Ralf Baecker

The work of Ralf Baecker is focused towards installations and machines which explore the poetic and artistic potential of technology. With a …

Stan Douglas, The Secret Agent (Film Still), 2015, © Stan Douglas, Courtesy the Artist, David Zwirner-New York/London

ART CITIES:N.York-Stan Douglas

Since the late ‘80s, Stan Douglas has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often …

Choi Jeong Hwa, Alchemy - Culture Station Seoul 284, 2014, Photo: Choi Jeong Hwa, © Choi Jeong Hwa / Park Ryu Sook Gallery, curtesy Museum of Fine Arts-Boston

ART-PRESENTATION: Megacities Asia

Asia is the world’s most rapidly urbanizing continent, containing more than half of the approximately 30 megacities around the globe. Beijing, Shanghai, …

Emilie Brout & Maxime Marion, Return of the Broken Screens (series), 2015, courtesy 22,48 m2, Paris

ART FAIRS:Art Brussels 2016

The Art Brussels Contemporary Art Fair opens its 34th  edition relocated from Brussels Expo to the more conveniently Tour & Taxis building, …

Sigmar Polke, Die Trennung des Mondes von den einzelnen Planeten, 2015 / Zirkusfiguren, 2005, Pinault Collection, Installation view at Palazzo Grassi, 2016, Photo: Matteo De Fina, © The Estate of Sigmar Polke by SIAE 2016

ART CITIES:Venice-Sigmar Polke

For the 1986 Venice Biennale Sigmar Polke conceived an extraordinary installation for the German Pavilion generically entitled “Athanor”. Alchemy and politics were …

Thomas Ruff, press++20.33, 2015, © Thomas Ruff, courtesy David Zwirner Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Thomas Ruff-press++

Thomas Ruff has fundamentally changed our relationship to the photographic image, moving it beyond reactionary ideas of documentation and supposed “truth” towards …

ART NEWS:Apr.02

A newly commissioned painting of monumental scale “Empireland” grapples with Ireland’s history as a state. With images, icons, symbols and figures relating …

Adriana Varejão, Kindred Spirits, 2015, courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Adriana Varejão

Adriana Varejão has developed a rigorous practice that is informed by cultural and historical research. Each series is based on intense investigation …

Kader Attia, Chaos + Repair = Universe, 2014, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2016, Courtesy Kader Attia and Galeria Continua, Photo: MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst / Axel Schneider, Museum für Moderne Kunst Archive

ART CITIES:Frankfurt -Kader Attia

Kader Attia has been considered one of the most influential artists of his generation. He spent his childhood between France and Algeria, …