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Growing Freedom, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art

BOOK:Growing Freedom, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art

Inspired by the spirit of the pocketbook, this publication features installation views from the exhibition “Growing Freedom: The Instructions of Yoko Ono and the Art of John and Yoko”  (24/4-15/9/19) at the Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, also some never before published photos, and essays by Gunnar B. Kvaran and …

Rashid Johnson, The Broken Five, 2019, Ceramic tile, mirror tile, spray enamel, bronze, oil stick, black soap, wax 246.4 x 398.1 x 7.6 cm, Photo: Martin Parsekian, © Rashid Johnson, Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

ART CITIES:N.York-Rashid Johnson

Rashid Johnson is renowned for challenging the assumptions often present in collective notions of blackness. Johnson is among an influential, core group …

Work from the exhibition: Japan Supernatura, Art Gallery of New South Wales- Sydney, 2019, Courtesy Art Gallery of New South Wales

ART-TRIBUTE:Japan Supernatural,Part II

Japanese artists across the centuries have created a lively parade of magical animals, fiendish imps, legendary monsters and ethereal spirits. Known in …

Mikiko-Hara

ART FAIRS:Paris Photo 2019

Paris Photo is the world’s largest Art Fair of photography, and is held annually since 1997 in the Grand Palais, Paris. The …

Cornelia Parker, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View, 1991. Installation view, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2019. Blown up garden shed and contents, wire, light bulb. Tate: Presented by the Patrons of New Art (Special Purchase Fund) through the Tate Gallery Foundation 1995. Image courtesy the artist, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and Frith Street Gallery, London. Photograph: Anna Kučera

ART-PRESENTATION: Cornelia Parker

One of the most important artists working today, Cornelia Parker is known for her transformation of everyday objects into unexpected, haunting scenarios …

Matt Johnson

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Matt Johnson

Renowned for his wry marriages of everyday subjects with raw physical matter, Matt Johnson’s sculptures explore the paradox of visual forms through …

Mary Corse, Untitled (White Light Inner Band), 2015, Glass microspheres and acrylic on metal, 4.6 x 18.3 m, © Mary Corse, Photo: Flying Studio, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Mary Corse

Mary Corse has built a practice that occupies an independent space at the intersection of minimalist painting, Abstract Expressionism and scientific inquiry. …

Antoni Tàpies, Colador i Tassa, 1998, mixed media and assemblage on wood, 174.9 cm x 200 cm, © Fundació Antoni Tàpies / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VEGAP, Madrid

PRESENTATION: Antoni Tàpies

Antoni Tàpies refined a visual language inspired by a wide range of sources that coalesce into a complex fusion of materials, gestures, …

Lee Bul, Perdu XI, 2018, Mother of pearl and acrylic paint on lacquered wooden base panel with steel frame, 32 x 74 inches, © Lee Bul

ART CITIES:N.York-Lee Bul

Lee Bul is considered one of the foremost women artists from Asia to emerge in the international art scene in the 1990s. …

Irving Penn, Tuberous Begonia, New York, 1973, Pigment print mounted to board, print made 2007, Image, paper and mount 42,5 x 52,7 cm, Frame 66,9 x 67,6 x 3,9 cm, © The Irving Penn Foundation

ART CITIES:Paris-Irving Penn

Irving Penn was one of the most important and influential photographers of the 20th Century. In a career that spanned almost 70years, …

Tomma Abts, Samke (Detail), 2019, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 48.3 x 38.1 cm), © Tomma Abts, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner Gallery

ART-PRESENTATION: Tomma Abts

One of the most significant artists of her generation and the winner of the 2006 Turner Prize, Tomma Abts is known for …

Gerhard Richter, Betty, 1991, color offset print on cardboard, mounted on plastic board, in frame, 50 1/4 × 40 inches (127.5 × 101.5 cm), edition of 25 © Gerhard Richter 2019

ART CITIES:N.York-Gerhard Richter

Throughout his career, Gerhard Richter has remained at the forefront of contemporary abstraction and image-making, embracing haptic process and technological advancements in …

Thomas Joshua Cooper, Uncharted Dangers, Clear—Prime Head Ice Wall, Trinity Peninsula, Graham Land, the Antarctic Peninsula, the North-Most Point of Continental Antarctica, 63°13´ S, 2008, selenium- and gold-toned chlorobromide gelatin silver print, 26 3/4 × 38 3/4 in., Collection Lannan Foundation, © Thomas Joshua Cooper, photo courtesy of the artist

PHOTO:Thomas Joshua Cooper

Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of the most celebrated and distinctive landscape photographers working anywhere in the world today. He was born …