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Sean Scully, Human 3, 2018, Oil on aluminium, Each panel 215.9 × 190.5 cm, Private collection (SS3357), © Sean Scully. Photo: courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:London-Sean Scully

One of the world’s foremost contemporary artists, Sean Scully’s work draws on the traditions of European painting, invigorated with the distinct character of American abstraction. His varied practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, watercolors, and pastels, but he is best known for rich, monumental abstract paintings in which stripes or blocks of …

Tetsuya Ishida, Search, 2001, Acrylic on canvas, 112.1 x 162.1 cm, the DAI-ICHI Life Insurance Limited, © Tetsuya Ishida, Photo: Takemi Art Photos, Curtesy Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co, Ltd

ART CITIES:Madrid-Tetsuya Ishida

Tetsuya Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”, a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the …

Left: Rónai Moscow, DADA, 1986, Serigraphy 65 x 50 cm, Courtesy the artist. Right: Rudolf Sikora, Exclamation Mark VI, 1974, Ofset, paper, 69 x 43,7 cm, Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Budapest-SIGNAL

The arrival of conceptual art in the early 1970s was associated with the shift of interest from aesthetic and material qualities of …

Mircea Cantor, Untitled (unpredicteble future), 2004 Light box. 60 x 80 cm, © Mircea Cantor, Courtesy of the artist

PHOTO:Mircea Cantor-Înainte

Mircea Cantor’s work knows no borders. Originally from Romania, he defines himself above all as an artist who “lives and works on …

Paola Pivi, Untitled (donkey), 2003, Inkjet print on PVC, 1020 x 1230 cm, Photo Hugo Glendinning, Courtesy Massimo De Carlo-Milan/London/Hong Kong

ART CITIES:Rome Paola-Pivi

Paola Pivi’s works are authentic experiences of wonder, enterprises that mould and personalise the context surrounding them, transforming it into a pure …

Peter Doig, Lion in the Road (Sailors), 2019, installation view Secession 2019, photo: Hannes Böck, Courtesy the artist and Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London / Bildrecht Vienna, 2019

ART CITIES:Vienna-Peter Doig

Peter Doig paints representational pictures as though they were abstractions. His spellbinding works combine planar forms and a palette that is as …

Hito Steyerl, Power Plants Installation view, 11/4-6/5/19, Serpentine Galleries Design by Ayham Ghraowi, Developed by Ivaylo Getov, Courtesy of the Artist, Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York) and Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin), Photo: © 2019 readsreads.info

ART CITIES:London-Hito Steyerl

Hito Steyerl is a filmmaker, visual artist, writer and innovator of the documentary essay film. Drawing upon topics such as media, technology …

Jake & Dinos Chapman, Sex I, 2003, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019, Courtesy the artists & Blain|Southern

ART CITIES:Berlin-BEYOND

The idea of the “afterlife” has gripped mankind since the beginning of time. Religious promises of salvation, manifested psychosis, and ominous memento …

Tobias Rehberger, Yourself is sometimes a place to call your own, 2018, Cafeteria and exhibition space including 2 neon signs, table and benches, 425 × 877 × 250 cm, © Tobias Rehberger, Courtesy of the artist, the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan and neugerriemschneider-Berlin

ART CITIES:Shanghai-Tobias Rehberger

Tobias Rehberger is an artist whose work is characterized by transformation, serendipity, collaboration and shared experience. His work in large-scale often takes …