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Paola Pivi, Phaidon Publications

BOOK:Paola Pivi-Phaidon Publications

After abandoning her university studies in chemical nuclear engineering, Paola Pivi shifted her ambitions towards a career in contemporary art. Celebrated today for her provocative eccentricity, Pivi’s artistic production is full of odd encounters and whimsical moments. Often using recognisable objects that are modified to introduce new scale, material, or …

VIDEO:Inuuteq Storch-Who We Are

Meet a young photographer, Inuuteq Storch, who works with found images telling Greenland history from the Greenlandic perspective. “A lot of the …

Kishio Suga, Situation of Critical Boundary, 1972, Chalk on sandpaper, 30 parts; 11 x 9 1/16 inches each, 28 x 23 cm, © Kishio Suga, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe Gallery

PRESENTATION: Kishio Suga-Paper

One of the key figures in Japan’s pivotal Mono-ha phenomenon of the late 1960s and early 1970s, artist Kishio Suga has realized …

Artwork from the exhibition "Hermann Nitsch", Peres Projects-Berlin, 2022

ART CITIES: Berlin-Hermann Nitsch

A key figure in Viennese Actionism, known as perhaps the most radical art movement of the 1960’s, Hermann Nitsch’s practice assembles a …

ART NEWS: Jan.02

An exhibition dedicated to Alberto Biasi, a leading figure in the field of Italian kinetic art is opening in Paris. Throughout his …

Alicja Kwade, Duodecuple Be-Hide, 2020Mirror, bronze, granite, sandstone, 110 x 240 x 240 cm, © Alicja Kwade, Courtesy the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE

ART CITIES: Seoul-Alicja Kwade

Born in 1979 in Katowice (Poland), Alicja Kwade lives and works in Berlin (Germany). Alicja Kwade’s work investigates and questions the structures …

Alex Hubbard, Painting apparatus two (detail(, 2021, Urethane and oil on canvas, 157.5 x 172.5 x 5 cm / 62 x 68 x 2 in, © Alex Hubbard, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber

ART CITIES: Zurich-Alex Hubbard

In his paintings, Alex Hubbard uses the volatile, fast-drying materials of urethane, resin, and fiberglass. Once applied to the surface, these materials …