This work belongs to the period of Abstract Expressionism, but while Abstract Expressionism was happening in the US, in Europe there was a similar version of it called Art Informel. This movement was the one Carla Accardi joined since the beginning of her career, even though she integrated it with her personal view on art […]
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PORTRAIT, EUGÉNE LEROY, 1962
If you look at this painting in real life, and from close enough, it will seem completely abstract to you. The title give an initial hint, but you see the portrait only from far or from the lens of a camera. The painting is made with a very think layer of paint, mostly of dark […]
ITALIAN PIAZZA WITH SPENT SUN, GIORGIO DE CHIRICO, 1971
It may seem a little strange to find a painting by Giorgio De Chirico in this website, since one of our aims is to share art from the 50s on, and De Chirico is considered to be more modern than contemporary nowadays. Very few know, though, that De Chirico continued painting until his death, in […]
UNTITLED (MOTIF RÈCURRENT), ACHRAF TOULOUB, 2014
This artwork belongs to the collection of the Deutsche Bank in Berlin, and it is a drawing. The particularity of this drawing is that the artist drew the frame leaving the inside of the work empty. This inversion of functions of the different parts of a painting (or a drawing in this case) suggests that […]
L’ORANGERIE WALL PAINTING, RICHARD JACKSON, 2018
This wall painting is a commission realized by Richard Jackson for the Orangerie in Paris. The Orangerie has initiated a dialogue between what it is most famous for (Monet’s Waterlilies) and contemporary art, involving different artists and different works. We already spoke about the beautiful work by Joan Mitchell, you can read the article here: […]
PUDOR, LUIZA PRADO, 2017
Pudor is a video-performance in which Luiza Prado, a Brazilian artist, lays naked on the floor, while people put white rosaries on her, covering her private parts. That is a symbol of how the religious community she was raised in was oppressing her sexuality, and was causing and not healing her vaginismus (a condition that […]
LIBERACIÓN, LIZI SÁNCHEZ, 2018
In the context of Lima In-Quieta, an exhibition that just happened in Paris about the Peruvian culture and specifically the city of Lima, Lizi Sánchez presented the works titled Liberación. The sculptures, made of rubber sheets cut-outs, take inspiration from the homonym poem by Magda Portal, a Peruvian poet concentrated mostly on feminism and social […]