In the Palais de Tokyo in Paris there was a very controversial exhibition until the beginning of May 2018. The main artists involved in the exhibition – called One and the Other – were Kader Attia and Jean-Jacques Lebel, but they wanted to include other artists as well as found objects with anonymous creators. I […]
The Fluxus movement is most famous to the people for the outstanding presence of Yoko Ono, known for her art and for her relationship with John Lennon. But Fluxus is much more, and it was the inspiration for many artists that came after it. Artistic and historical backgroud Fluxus was an art movement born in […]
Have you ever heard of Arte Povera? Have you ever wondered why it is not translated from Italian (it literally means “poor art”)? You will discover everything in the following paragraphs! Historical and artistic background The Arte Povera movement was born in Italy (you didn’t guess this, did you!) in 1967. Why do we have […]
Try to find the piece! Immediately surprising are the black and white details that frame the central plane of the painting. Can they be detected in the central coloured field? Is it a puzzle or are they maybe letters from an imagined alphabet that constitute a visual phrase in the middle? The CoBrA movement (created […]
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Can you stare at these work for more than 3 seconds? If you can do it without any problem, you are one in a million!
The aim of these artists was exactly to destabilize you, so accept the challenge and read the article!
This work by Louise Bourgeois is exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and when I saw it I felt like a punch in my stomach. The installation is formed by a circular room with two doors from which the visitor can look inside. In the room there are various elements: an iron bed, two […]
Naoshima is an island highly evaluated as an “art island”. In fact, Naoshima is full of artworks, site-specific installations and museums of contemporary art. The Benesse House Museum is a project of one of the most important architect in Japan and in all over the world: Tadao Ando. He designed also the Chichu Art Museum, […]
Yesterday we talked about Minimal Art, and we mentioned Barnett Newman. He wasn’t just part of Minimalists, but also of the Colorfield movement and of the Abstract Expressionism. This work is exhibited permanently at the MoMA, New York, and the label says: Vir Heroicus Sublimis, Newman’s largest painting at the time of its completion, is […]
As the name suggests, Abstract Expressionism comes from the ideas of Abstractism and Expressionism. Saying this is too reductive though, as Abstract Expressionism is much more! Historical and artistic background We can place Abstract Expressionism in a timeline going from the mid ’40s to the mid ’60s. For the first time, an important art movement […]
The Back Home series presents four different photographs of the members of a few families, posing in front of a reproduction of a cozy furnished house. The members of the families are all dressed up for a purpose and they seem to be prepared for an important moment. The families are composed by immigrants, and […]
We are very saddened to hear that Italian illustrator Tony Wolf (aka Antonio Lupatelli) passed away few days ago. He’s best known to be the father of someone we all know -ok, if you’re born after 2000 please, just go away. Let us elderlies cry for our incoming oldness (and loss of a faraway friend: […]
Krissadank Intasorn is a Thai artist born in 1986 in Thailand. Krissadank Intasorn is a middle-career artist specialized in painting, for his painting uses various materials, such as paper, wood and mixed media. The focus of his work is about the homosexual orientation in the Thai culture. In “Shape of water” are showed two marine […]
When you look at this artwork, what you see is a raw block of stone with the shape of a triangle, but if you look closely enough you will see a little compass at the base of it. The compass points towards the north, and this is the direction in which the artwork should be […]
[Support us with a symbolic coffee! It is a huge help for us to keep up with our work!] Video art was born since the beginning of modern art, with the artists’ will to capture movement in many different ways. The video is a brand new tool for the artists to express their creativity, and since […]
Saul Bass is one of those artists that nobody knows, except everybody knows. Wait, what? Let me explain. If you’re not into graphic arts, movies’ aesthetic or corporate identity it is likely that you’re not familiar with his name, but you’ve seen his artworks. A lot of them, actually. He’s a legend in the world of graphic […]
Today we are talking about the impressive work of Suriwan Sutham, an emerging and talented Thai female artist. The first time that I saw his work was at the Bangkok Art and Culture Center as a current exhibition. The artworks are painted in maxi format and they immediately caught my attention. The pictorial technique is […]
