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Yuan Jai, Flirting, 2001, Ink and colour on silk, 84 x 222 cm, Private collection, Image Courtesy of the artist

ART CITIES:Paris-Yuan Jai

Borrowing style, patterns and materials (ink and mineral pigments on silk) from classical Chinese painting Yuan Jai transfers and incorporates them in …

Teresa Margolles, Super Speed / El Paso, Texas, 2020, Pigmented inkjet print, Box of 24 cartridges purchased from Walmart, Gateway Blvd, El Paso, TX, Unframed: 66 x 90 cm, Framed67.9 x 92.1 x 3.5 cm, © Teresa Margolles, Courtesy the artist and James Cohan Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Teresa Margolles

Teresa Margolles examines the social causes and consequences of death, destruction and civil war. For Margolles, the morgue accurately reflects society, particularly …

Marina Faust, IN RARE CASES (detail), 2019, Pigment print on silk tissue paper, 109 x 84 cm, © Marina Faust, Courtesy Xippas

ART CITIES:Geneva-Marina Faust

Marina Faust’s oeuvre is anchored in self-portraits, which she has been doing since the start of her career. She places herself in …

Doug Wheeler, Eindhoven Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Installation (Environmental Light), 1969. Installation view, The Panza Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2008–2009

ART CITIES:N.York-Doug Wheeler

In the 1960s and ’70s, light became a primary medium for a loosely-affiliated group of artists working in Los Angeles. Whether by …

Robert Irwin, Kilts (detail), 2018, Shadow + Reflection + Color, 182.9 cm × 262.3 cm × 10.8 cm, © Robert Irwin, Courtesy the artist and Pace Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin has explored perception as the fundamental issue of art for over six decades. Irwin, who began his career as a …

Cameron Jamie

ART CITIES:Brussels-Cameron Jamie

Cameron Jamie has produced work in diverse media from photographs and videos to drawings, ceramics, sculpture, and photocopied zines. The work that …

Left: Richard Artschwager, Exclamation Point (Yellow), 2001 Plastic bristles, mahogany, and latex, in 2 parts, overall: 165.1 × 55.9 × 55.9 cm, edition of 3, © 2020 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Right: Richard Artschwager, Locations, 1969, Formica on wood with screen-printed Plexiglas, and five blps made of wood, glass, Plexiglas, mirror, and rubberized horsehair with Formica, in 6 parts, Edition of 90, © 2019 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever. Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES:London-Richard Artschwager

Richard Artschwager’s work has been classified as Pop Art due to the work’s derivation from utilitarian objects; Minimalist, in reference to Artschwager’s …

Left: T. J. Wilcox, Hyacinth and Apollo, 2020, Inkjet print on silk, 221 x 139.7 x 6.4 cm, © T. J. Wilcox, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery Right: T. J. Wilcox, Dance, 2020, Inkjet print on silk, 221 x 139.7 x 6.4 cm, © T. J. Wilcox, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-T. J. Wilcox

T.J. Wilcox’s work is characterized by a fascination with personal narrative and the ways in which history is always under construction, woven …

Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Attese (Detail), 1966, Water-based paint on canvas, 61 × 50 cm,© Fondation Lucio Fontana, Milano/by SIAE/ADAGP, Paris, 2020. Courtesy Gagosian

ART CITIES:Paris-Blanc sur Blanc

Kazimir Malevich was undoubtably one of the most influential modernist artists and the first one to engage fully in geometric abstraction. Malevich’s …

Camille Blatrix, installation view, Standby Mice Station, Kunsthalle Basel, 2020, view on Weather Stork Point (detail) , 2020. Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel

ART CITIES:Basel-Camille Blatrix

The son of a painter and a ceramicist, Camille Blatrix initially studied graphic design in Strasbourg. “My father never really made a …

Yun Hyong-keun, Burnt Umber & Ultramarine Blue, 1997, Oil on linen, 65.5 x 100 cm

ART CITIES:N.York-Yun Hyong-keun

One of the most significant Korean artists of the twentieth century, Yun Hyong-keun is widely recognized for his signature abstract compositions, which …

Paolo Colombo

ART CITIES:Athens-Paolo Colombo

Paolo Colombo (born 1949, Turin, Italy) is an international art curator and living in Athens since 2008, as an artist, he is …

Lynn Umlauf , May 10, 1985, Acrylic, wire, Tycore, Plexiglas, bronze powder, canvas, 109 cm x 117 cm x 18 cm, © Lynn Umlauf , Courtesy the artist and Zürcher Gallery

ART CITIES:N.York-Lynn Umlauf

Lynn Umlauf, pays the grid no attention whatsoever, creating shaped, biomorphic canvases overlaid with configurations of cutout paper, which are painted with …

Left: Salvo, Primavera, 1988, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm, © Archivio Salvo , Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery-New York and Brussels, Photo: David Regen Center: Salvo, Notte d'inverno, 1995, Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, © Archivio Salvo , Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery-New York and Brussels, Photo: David Regen Right: Salvo, Senza titolo, 1988, Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm, © Archivio Salvo , Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery-New York and Brussels, Photo: David Regen

ART CITIES:N.York-Salvo

Salvo (Salvatore Mangione) was an Italian artist that transitioned from producing austere sculptures to painting richly colored depictions of the Italian countryside. …

ART CITIES:Paris-Openings

In “Abstracts”, her new solo exhibition, Fiona Rae  shows a new collection of canvas paintings and more intimate works on paper, her …

John Mason, Crosses, three of a Kind, 2004, © 2004 Estate of John Mason. All rights reserved, Photo: Jeff McLane

ART CITIES:N.York-John Mason

Often cited as a contributor to the revolution in clay John Mason changed the perception of the medium from craft into fine …