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Enzo Cucchi, Porta addormita, 2018, Ceramic and thermo-painted iron, courtesy the artist

ART-PRESENTATION: Enzo Cucchi

Since the very beginning of his career, Enzo Cucchi stood out as an artist of great originality against the backdrop of the conceptual panorama of the late 70s. While adopting the experimentalism typical of the tendencies of the time, Cucchi did not renounce more traditional expressive means in creating his …

OPEN CALL:Projects For Perspective 2020

PERSPEKTIVE is a German-French fund for contemporary art and architecture that promotes artistic exchange between both countries. Initiated by the Bureau des …

Adrien Vescovi, Madras, Fabrics, natural pigments, variable dimensions, 2019, Variable dimensions Salins des Pesquiers, 34th Hyères Festival, Villa Noailles, Courtesy of the artist

ART-PREVIEW:Future, Former, Fugitive

The exhibition “Future, Former, Fugitive. A French scene” is based on an open conception of territorial placement – bringing together artists born …

Zineb Sedira Lighthouse in the Sea of Time, 2011, Video Installation, © Zineb Sedira / ADAGP, Paris, 2019, Courtesy the artist & kamel mennour, Paris/London

PHOTO:Zineb Sedira-A Brief Moment

Zineb Sedira’s multiple identities as a French-born Algerian living in England and work in Paris, London and Algiers, inform her haunting photographs …

Artwork © Urs Fischer

ART CITIES:Paris-Urs Fischer

Urs Fischer mines the potential of materials like: clay, steel, and paint to bread and dirt to create works that disorient and …

Mona Hatoum Hot Spot (stand) [Detail], 2018, Stainless steel, neon tube and rubber, 172 x 83 x 80 cm, Edition of 6 + 2 AP, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel-Paris. Photo : Florian Kleinefenn

ART-PREVIEW:Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum creates discomforting, challenging work that reveals the contradictions and uncertainties of our complex, confounding world. Using domestic and other familiar …

Ragnar Kjartansson The Visitors, 2012, 9-channel video projection, Duration: 64 minutes, Photos: Elisabet Davids Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine-New York and i8 Gallery-Reykjavik

ART CITIES:Helsinki-Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson engages multiple artistic mediums, creating video installations, performances, drawings, and paintings that draw upon myriad historical and cultural references. An …

Pavel Pepperstein, The Dancing Woman, 2007, Watercolor and ink on paper, (Donation de la Collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain, 2012 Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris © Pavel Pepperstein © Adagp, Paris)

ART-PREVIEW:A Passion for Drawing

Ever since the 1990s, Florence and Daniel Guerlain’s interest has been focused on contemporary drawing, and the two have by now accumulated …

ART NEWS:Oct.02

For his first significant presentation of Carlos Garaicoa’s work in Sweden, the exhibition “…a borderless reality, like gardens of the eternal…” consists …

OPEN CALL:New Alphabet School

Is it possible to imagine an overabundance of multifarious fields of languages, knowledge production and learning practices beyond one universal matrix? Can …

Lee Krasner, Combat, 1965, 179 × 410,4 cm, National Gallery of Victoria-Melbourne, Felton Bequest, 1992 (IC1-1992), © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2018 & The Pollock-Krasner Foundation/ ARS-New York. Licensed by Copyright Agency, 2018

ART-PREVIEW:Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner is considered one of the most critical figures in the evolution of American art in the second half of the …

Danh Vo, Cathedral Block Prayer Stage Gun Stock, Exhibition view at Marian Goodman Gallery-London, 2019, © Danh Vo, Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery

ART CITIES:London-Danh Vo

Danh Vo was born in Vietnam and currently lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. Emerging from personal relationships and fortuitous …

Kara Walker, 8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker, 2005, Video, black & white, audio; 15 min 57 sec, © Kara Walker. Courtesy Sprüth Magers and Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

ART CITIES:London-Kara Walker

Kara Walker’s instantly recognizable cut-paper silhouettes are visually striking and charged with racial, sexual, and historical tension, commenting on slavery, the Black …

Jeff Preiss. 14 STANDARD 8mm REELS 1981-1988, 2019, 8mm transferred to Digital Media, 90 min. Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Jeff Preiss

During the ’80s Jeff Preiss became involved in the production of experimental cinema. Work from this time was included in “Big as …