Lorna Simpson
Posted by Fabio 25 April 2012
Lorna Simpson was born in 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, and received her BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. When Simpson emerged from the graduate program at San Diego in 1985, she was already considered a pioneer of conceptual photography. read more
Kenny Scharf
Posted by Fabio 24 April 2012
Kenny Scharf was born 1958 in Los Angeles where he currently lives and works. Shown here is Cosmic Donut from 2008, silkscreen with crystal glitter on illustration board, 120.7 x 117.5 cm.
Caio Fonseca
Posted by Fabio 24 April 2012
Caio Fonseca, American, born 1959, was raised in New York City. In 1978 he went to Barcelona where he studied and painted until 1983. He moved to Pietrasanta (Lucca) in 1985 where he worked until 1989. After two years in Paris, he returned to New York and now divides his time between Pietrasanta and his studio in Manhattan on East Fifth Street. His works are held in numerous public and private collections in Europe and the United States. read more
Soda_Jerk
Posted by Fabio 23 April 2012
Soda_Jerk is a two-person art collective based in Berlin. For the last decade they have been working with audiovisual samples to create speculative narratives that trouble existing formulations of history, culture and politics. In their work, dominant accounts of cultural history are approached as semi-fictional mythologies that attempt to colonise and control the future. read more
Alexandre Singh
Posted by Fabio 20 April 2012
Alexandre Singh (1980) is a visual artist and writer based in New York. Singh’s work derives at once from traditions in literature, performance, photo-conceptualism and object-based installation art. Often starting with elaborate, publicly presented lectures that blend historical fact with narrative fiction, Singh’s practice resists categorization. read more
HANS ARNOLD – From horror to fairy tales
Posted by Fabio 18 April 2012
The famous illustrator Hans Arnold passed away in October 25 2010 after a long and productive life. His production involving nearly 30,000 illustrations. He is best known for his horror artwork in the swedish weekly Vecko-Revyn´s ”Veckans Chock” and his illustration that adorns the cover of ABBA´s ”Greatest Hits”. Many have begged that his relatives will be organizing an exhibition and now it´s finally happening. read more
Petra Cortright
Posted by Fabio 16 April 2012
Petra Cortright is a Santa Barbara, California based Internet artist. She studied at Parsons The New School for Design in New York and California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her work has been shown at the New Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale and the 2010 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, California. read more
Damien Hirst – Tate Modern
Posted by Fabio 3 April 2012
Tate Modern presents the first major Damien Hirst exhibition in the UK. This will be the first substantial survey of his work in a British institution and will bring together key works from over twenty years. The exhibition will include iconic sculptures from his Natural History series, including The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991, in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde. read more
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