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Kwon Young-woo, Untitled, 1986, Gouache, Chinese ink on Korean paper, 39 3/8 x 31 5/8 inches, © Kwon Young-woo, Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe Gallery

ART CITIES:Tokyo-Kwon Young-woo

A decade older than Lee Ufan and the other artists associated with Dansaekhwa, Kwon Young-woo’s practice was fundamental to the development of …

Tariku Shiferaw, Cranes in the Sky (Solange) [detail], 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches (182.9 x 152.4 cm), © Tariku Shiferaw, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong & Co.

ART CITIES:N.York-Tariku Shiferaw

Tariku Shiferaw is known for his practice of mark-making that explores the metaphysical ideas of painting and societal structures. This formal language …

Sam Falls, Night Rain, Morning Mist (Autumn), 2020, Pigment on canvas; 2 parts, Painting 1: 170.5 x 160.5 x 3 cm / 67 1/8 x 63 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches, Painting 2: 170.5 x 316.5 x 3 cm / 67 1/8 x 124 5/8 x 1 1/8 inches, Total dims.: 170.5 x 477 x 3 cm / 67 1/8 x 187 3/4 x 1 1/8 inches, © Sam Falls, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber

ART CITIES:Zurich-Sam Falls

Sam Falls’ work is inspired by the beauty, unpredictability, and ferocity of nature, and attempts to, as he says, “Traverse issues of …

Installation view “Dan Flavin - title “monument” for V. Tatlin, Galerie kamel mennour-Paris, Courtesy Galerie kamel mennour

ART CITIES:Paris-Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin’s work is clean, industrially produced, and serially repeating. These qualities were developed in opposition to the gestural expressionist painting dominant …

Rebecca Warren, Pas De Deux 2005, Mixed media vitrine and Perspex, 18 × 54⅜ × 11¼ inches; 46 × 138 × 29 cm, © Rebecca Warren, Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Rebecca Warren

Rebecca Warren is a sculptor working in a variety of materials, including clay, bronze, and steel. She also constructs vitrines and wall-based …

Installation view of the exhibition: Leu Art Family, 2021, ©Museum Tinguely; Photo: Daniel Spehr

ART CITIES:Basel-Leu Art Family

The mummy of Otzi, was discovered accidentally by hikers in 1991, together with his clothing and equipment, on the east ridge of …

William Kentridge, Pocket Drawings 187-241 (2016). 3 run lithographic print on 63 panels, mounted on cotton fabric. Edition of 25 + 3AP. 80.3 x 98.1 cm; 94.6 x 112.4 x 7 cm (incl. frame). © William Kentridge, Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-William Kentridge

William Kentridge’s engagement with printmaking has been integral to his artistic practice and spans his entire career. He has experimented with a …

Paulo Monteiro, Untitled, 2020, Oil on linen, 66 7/8 x 90 1/2 inches / 169.9 x 229.9 cm, © Paulo Monteiro, courtesy the artist and Lévy Gorvy Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Paulo Monteiro

Monteiro continues his ongoing reconciliation of the dual forms of painting and sculpture by constructing a narrative between them. Continuously exploring the …

Giuseppe Penone

ART CITIES:N.York-Giuseppe Penone

Long related to developments in sculpture in the 60s and 70s, and to Arte Povera, Giuseppe Penone’s work retains its own distinctive …

Left: Uwe Wittwer, Im Walde (In the Woods), 2020, glass, painted and burned, painted metal stand, 200 x 150 cm, (recto, painted side), © Uwe Wittwer, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann Center: Uwe Wittwer, Wandstück (Wallpiece), 2020, oil on canvas, 82 x 72 cm, framed, © Uwe Wittwer, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann Right: Uwe Wittwer, Schatten über Schatten (Shadows over Shadows), 2020, charcoal on paper, 192 x 145 cm, framed, © Uwe Wittwer, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Peter Kilchmann

ART CITIES:Zurich-Uwe Wittwer

Since the beginning of his career in the middle of the eighties, Uwe Wittwer’s works have been questioning the truth behind images …

ART CITIES:N.York-Zach Harris

Zach Harris’s carved panel paintings unfold complex utopian and dystopian worlds. His psychedelic visions, which almost verge on abstraction, immerse viewers in …

Simon Fujiwara Who the Bær, 2020, © Simon Fujiwara, Courtesy the artist, Dvir Gallery-Tel Aviv/ Brussels, GioMARCONI-Milan Taro Nasu-Tokyo, Esther Schipper-Berlin

ART CITIES:Milan-Simon Fujiwara

Over the past decade, Simon Fujiwara has become known for his staging of large, complex exhibitions that explore the deeply rooted mechanisms …

Cindy Sherman

ART CITIES:Los Angeles-Cindy Sherman

Since the late 1970s, Sherman has been photographing herself in guises inspired by stereotypes and characters from mass media, everyday life and …

Lucas Blalock, Reverse Titanic / Hell is in the Air, 2019, Dye sublimation print on aluminum, 150 x 175.5 cm / 59 x 69 inches, © Lucas Blalock, Courtesy the artist and Gallery Eva Presenhuber

ART CITIES:N York-Lucas Blalock

The eccentric, surreal images of Lucas Blalock are products of both analogue and digital technologies. Using a large-format camera, he takes photographs …

Luisa Lambri, Untitled (100 Untitled Works in Mill Aluminum, 1982-1986, # 03), 2012 Laserchrome print, 94 x 79.39 cm, © Luisa Lambri Courtesy Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan; Thomas Dane Gallery, London

ART CITIES:Milan-Luisa Lambri

Luisa Lambri’s discrete photographs occupy a unique space between photographic abstraction and the spatial exploration of architecture. They are pared down to …

Ding Yi, Appearance of Crosses 2020-13, 2020, Mixed media on wood, 120 x 120 cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in), Recto lower right signed and dated: “Ding Yi 2020”, © Ding Yi, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Karsten Greve

ART CITIES:Paris-Ding Yi

Since the end of the 1980s, Ding Yi has devoted himself exclusively to working with the theme of the cross (+) and …