Artschwager plots a distinctive course between handcraft and industrialization, encompassing space as well as the objects and beings that inhabit it. He represented places, scenes from everyday life, and common objects such as tables, chairs, and dressers, interpreting them in ordinary, standardized industrial materials such as formica, Celotex, acrylic paint, and rubberized horsehair. Continue reading Richard Artschwager
Ianni’s work is characterized by a critique on contemporary society through the investigation of the relations between art, politics, history and ideology. Continue reading Clara Ianni
Smith’s canvases seem to distill art-making to its essentials, reconstructing the painted image from scratch. In his widely influential essay, “Provisional Painting,” published in May 2009 in Art in America, Raphael Rubinstein cited Smith, alongside Joan Miró and Martin Barré, as one of the precursors to a new approach to painting, a discipline Rubenstein suggests is, “in part, a struggle with a medium that can seem too invested in permanence and virtuosity.” Continue reading Kimber Smith
For over five decades, John Baldessari (1931–2020) explored the relationship between text and image and what emerges when the two are brought together. His conceptual artworks often have an underlying streak of humour and irony… Continue reading John Baldessari
Garikoitz intenta cada vez lo que sabe de antemano que no logrará y tampoco querría hacerlo. Continue reading Garikoitz Cuevas
