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Marina Faust, IN RARE CASES (detail), 2019, Pigment print on silk tissue paper, 109 x 84 cm, © Marina Faust, Courtesy Xippas

ART CITIES:Geneva-Marina Faust

Marina Faust’s oeuvre is anchored in self-portraits, which she has been doing since the start of her career. She places herself in the scene and simultaneously hides behind her materials, such as mohair wool or shaving foam. This symbolically reveals her approach of moving things closer to herself in order …

Doug Wheeler, Eindhoven Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Installation (Environmental Light), 1969. Installation view, The Panza Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2008–2009

ART CITIES:N.York-Doug Wheeler

In the 1960s and ’70s, light became a primary medium for a loosely-affiliated group of artists working in Los Angeles. Whether by …

Amar Kanwar, Such a Morning (Video Still), 2017, Digital video, color, sound; 85 min., Single channel, looped, Ed. Of 6, © Amar Kanwar, Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

STATEMENT:Such A Morning

Are the times we are going through difficult? On the other hand, when they easy? Is it because we went through a …

Left: Wright Morris, “Gano” Grain Elevator, Kinsley, Kansas, 1940, © Estate of Wright Morris Right: Wright Morris, The Home Place, Norfolk, Nebraska_, 1947, © Estate of Wright Morris

PHOTO:Wright Morris-The Home Place

Wright Morris was a renowned writer and affective photographer. Pairing photographs with his own writing, Morris pioneered a new tradition of “photo-texts” …

Robert Irwin, Kilts (detail), 2018, Shadow + Reflection + Color, 182.9 cm × 262.3 cm × 10.8 cm, © Robert Irwin, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin has explored perception as the fundamental issue of art for over six decades. Irwin, who began his career as a …

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ART NEWS:Jan.02

Kang Hee Kim in “Dreamer” presents a series of photographs that collage street scenes from New York with landscapes and details from …

Candomblé-Ritual at Ilê Obá Sileké, 2019, Courtesy: Ilê Obá Sileké & Forum Brasil e. V., Photo: Nico Beradi

PERFORMANCE:Rituals of Care

The Gropius Bau hosts a series of performances as it begins its 2020 program: an ongoing exploration of themes with particular contemporary …

Cameron Jamie

ART CITIES:Brussels-Cameron Jamie

Cameron Jamie has produced work in diverse media from photographs and videos to drawings, ceramics, sculpture, and photocopied zines. The work that …

Left: Richard Artschwager, Exclamation Point (Yellow), 2001 Plastic bristles, mahogany, and latex, in 2 parts, overall: 165.1 × 55.9 × 55.9 cm, edition of 3, © 2020 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Right: Richard Artschwager, Locations, 1969, Formica on wood with screen-printed Plexiglas, and five blps made of wood, glass, Plexiglas, mirror, and rubberized horsehair with Formica, in 6 parts, Edition of 90, © 2019 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES:London-Richard Artschwager

Richard Artschwager’s work has been classified as Pop Art due to the work’s derivation from utilitarian objects; Minimalist, in reference to Artschwager’s …

Installation view, Amar Kanwar: Such a Morning, Marina Goodman Gallery, 2018, Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Amar Kanwar

In 1984, while Amar Kanwar was studying history at the University of Delhi, two events occurred that impacted his subsequent philosophical and …

Left: T. J. Wilcox, Hyacinth and Apollo, 2020, Inkjet print on silk, 221 x 139.7 x 6.4 cm, © T. J. Wilcox, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery Right: T. J. Wilcox, Dance, 2020, Inkjet print on silk, 221 x 139.7 x 6.4 cm, © T. J. Wilcox, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-T. J. Wilcox

T.J. Wilcox’s work is characterized by a fascination with personal narrative and the ways in which history is always under construction, woven …

La Voix des Femmes

STATEMENT:La Voix des Femmes

While we all felt that we were entering a new era, beyond the Second-wave feminism of the 1960’s and 1970’s that  broadened …

Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Attese (Detail), 1966, Water-based paint on canvas, 61 × 50 cm,© Fondation Lucio Fontana, Milano/by SIAE/ADAGP, Paris, 2020. Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES:Paris-Blanc sur Blanc

Kazimir Malevich was undoubtably one of the most influential modernist artists and the first one to engage fully in geometric abstraction. Malevich’s …