JANAINA TSCHÄPE – FLUID LANDSCAPES
Richly painted using large scale oil sticks in addition to the water-based pigments she previously employed, it marks a fresh direction in Tschäpe’s oeuvre. This material shift allows the artist to “draw” as one would with a pencil or pastel,…
ANISH KAPOOR AT PALAZZO MANFRIN, VENICE
Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. Perhaps most famous for public sculptures that are both adventures in form and feats of engineering, Kapoor manoeuvres between vastly different scales, across numerous series of work. Immense…
ROBERT LONGO – DRAWN FROM THE SOURCE
While Robert Longo has worked in a variety of media – including performance, photography, sculpture and painting – he is best known for his large-scale charcoal drawings engaging with art histrory as well as hyper-realistic works that reflect on the…
SEYDOU KEITA – THE QUEST FOR HUMAN BEAUTY
In the 1950s and 60s, a colourful collection of inhabitants of Bamako, capital of Mali, posed for Seydou Keïta, one of Africa’s most renowned photographer. People visited Keïta’s studio to have their picture taken at their best: wearing extravagant dresses…
“EXPÉRIENCES LUMINEUSES” THOMAS RUFF PHOTOGRAPHY20
For many years, Thomas Ruff has been exploring the origins and history of photography in his series. In doing so, he has always questioned the significance of the actual starting points of photography and its essence. In contrast to painting,…
CAROL BOVE – A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
New York based artist Carol Bove is best known for her large-scale sculptures made of crumpled stainless steel tubing, each combined with a large, circular glass disk. Presented in a monochrome environment, her installations consider the phenomenological experience of form…
Adrian Ghenie – Impossible Bodies
The oil paintings and charcoal drawings by Romanian-born, Berlin-based artist Adrian Ghenie fuse the profoundly personal with the art historical, bridging the abstract and the figurative to examine the impact of the Digital Age on the human condition. The artist…
LYNN CHADWICK – THE VITAL FORCE OF ART
Born in 1914, Lynn Chadwick studied in London and, after living in Paris to learn French, worked as an architectural draftsman and a designer of furniture and textiles before becoming a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm during the Second…
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