Currently browsing category

TRAVEL, Page 47

Tamara Fedorova, Lion, 1960s -1970s, Celluloid and plastic © Köpcke and Weinhold

ART CITIES:Berlin-ZOO MOCKBA

During the Tsarist era, Russia had no toy industry of its own. Those who could afford it spoiled their children with dolls …

Judith Scott, Untitled, o. J., Wool and found objects, abcd / Bruno Decharme Collectionm © Creative Growth Art Center, Photo © César Decharme

ART CITIES:Vienna-Flying High

The discourse on Art Brut has gained extra dimensions in recent years. The term Art Brut now goes beyond an exclusive focus …

Wreck of the steamship Città di Milano, Filicudi. Photo: Global Underwater Explorers

ART CITIES:Milan-Giorgio Andreotta Calò

Giorgio Andreotta Calò represented Italy at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017). His works include sculptures, large-scale site-specific installations and spatial works that …

Left: Serena Fineschi, Ingannare l’Attesa (Verde Veronese), 2019, green Bic Cristal pen, 156 x 111 cm (with frame), © Serena Fineschi, Courtesy the artist and Marignana Arte. Right: Serena Fineschi, Ingannare l’Attesa (Rosso Tiziano), 2019, red Bic Cristal pen, 156 x 111 cm (with frame), © Serena Fineschi, Courtesy the artist and Marignana Arte

ART CITIES:Venice-Stanze

The exhibition “Stanze” is a project in three spaces involving six artists: two for every space of Marignana Arte Gallery in Venice. …

Maryam Jafri: Product Recall: An Index of Innovation, Installation view at Kunsthalle Basel-Basel Switzerland, 2015, Photo: Phillip Hänger, Courtesy Maryam Jafri

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Maryam Jafri

For the past fifteen years Maryam Jafri has worked across varied media including expanded sculpture, video, and photography, with a specific interest …

Jacqueline de Jong, Off season, 1986, Collection of the artist. Courtesy Dürst Britt & Mayhew (The Hague) / Château Shatto (Los Angeles)

ART CITIES:Amsterdam-Jacqueline de Jong

Jacqueline de Jong was involved in European Avant-Garde networks in the 1960s, including the Gruppe SPUR and the politically engaged Situationist International …

Flora Yukhnovich

ART CITIES:London-Flora Yukhnovich

Flora Yukhnovich’s paintings trace connections between a visual language originating in the Rococo with contemporary popular culture, examining and questioning how notions …

Ja’Tovia Gary, Giverny I (Négresse Impériale), 2017 (film still). Courtesy the artist

ART CITIES:Paris, Ja’Tovia-Gary

Ja’Tovia M. Gary is an artist and filmmaker currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Gary’s work seeks to liberate the …

Dame Barbara Hepworth DBE, Sculpture with Colour (Deep Blue and Red), 1940, Plaster and string on plaster base, 105 × 149 × 105 mm, © Tate Images credit, © Hepworth / Bowness

ART CITIES:Berlin-Objects of Wonder

Including 70 characteristic works by leading sculptors from Tate’s Collection, the exhibition “Objects of Wonder- British Sculpture 1950s – Present” provides a …

Michal Rovner, Mechanism, 2018, Video projection, Dimensions variable, © Michal Rovner, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:Geneva-Michal Rovner

As a result of her desire to produce work that is free from narrative, or indeed people with any distinguishable features, the …

Henrike Naumann, Ostalgie

ART CITIES:Berlin-Henrike Naumann

Growing up in Eastern Germany, Henrike Naumann experienced extreme-right ideology as a predominant youth culture in the 90s. Her work reflects on …

Left: John Currin, Crystal’s Friend, 2011, Oil on canvas, 61 x 45.7 cm, © John Currin, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian. Right: John Currin, Miss Fenwick, 1996, 112 x 81.3 cm, © John Currin, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Geneva-John Currin

Since the 1990s, John Currin has reigned as one of the art world’s greatest provocateurs residing on the double-edged sword of desire …

Lydia Okumura, Installation at Museu de Arte Moderna, Sāo Paulo, 1984. Vintage B&W Photograph. Photo: Roberto Okumura. ©Lydia Okumura. Courtesy of Anke Kempkes Art Advisory / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac-London/Paris/Salzburg

ART CITIES:London Lydia Okumura

For almost 50 years, Lydia Okumura has been investigating the interstice between two and three-dimensional space through precise, site-specific installations. Mostly using …

Left: Gary Hume, Sweet Pea, 2016, © Gary Hume, Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Right: Gary Hume, Petals, 2017, © Gary Hume, Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery

ART CITIES:Los Angeles -Gary Hume

After graduating from Goldsmiths College and exhibiting in 1988’s “Freeze”, organised by Damien Hirst, Gary Hume gained early recognition for a group …

Roe Ethridge, Turtle, 2018, due sublimation print on aluminium, 121.9 x 147.3 cm, Edition of 5 + 2 AP, © Roe Ethridge, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART CITIES:Hong Kong-Roe Ethridge

Roe Ethridge shoots in “editorial mode” and also borrows images already in circulation, including outtakes from his own commercial work. “Everything seems …