Valerio Adami is an italian contemporary artist, best known in France. He was very much influenced by american Pop Art, and if someone of you has familiarity with Andy Warhol (as most people do) it will be easy to see some similarities between the two of them, even if they are very different too. Later […]
We are speaking today about the artist that brought the neon lights into the artworld, Dan Flavin. Actually, this is one of the most important aspect of contemporary art: it has to be innovative. Every artist has to bring something new (think for example of Roy Lichtestein and his comics, or of Andy Warhol and […]
This is one of the most misunderstood contemporary artist, and his work is often an example of how stupid contemporary art is. Piero Manzoni was an Italian artist, and this is his most famous work of all times. Actually, this was precisely the intent of the artist! The can is supposed to contain real shit, […]
Today it’s time to speak about an artist I am in love with: Roman Opalka. He was a French-Polish artist who worked between France and Venice. All his artistic production consists in one single work, the one we are talking about today. The fact is that this work, named 1965 / 1 – ∞, is made […]
Yves Klein was one of the most celebrated contemporary artists, and painting was almost an obsession for him. He painted a series called Relief Eponges, in which he used actual sponges as a material for his paintings. This is, as the title suggests, the artwork he thought could be the most evocative and representative of […]
