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Hermann Nitsch was celebrated and reviled in equal measure as he took the guise of a pagan ceremony and incorporated dress processions, symbolic crucifixion, drunken excess, nudity, animal sacrifice, the consumption of blood, Ritual and the incorporation of viscera and entrails. Even today,...

Johannes appropriates Wohnseifer-made cultural signifiers and reassembles as invented logos. The two comic absurd and ideologically threatening, his paintings on aluminum infuse the frivolity of advertising with an underlying propaganda, subversive messages repackaged as the design of high art....

Franz Ackermann paints adopt the superficiality of modern pop. Day light color of the promise of package holidays, merchandising traditional lifestyles as a foolish luxury. building forms and designs spiral out of control, dangerously twisting upside investment that developers, the landscape is...

The column Isa Genzken is a recurring motif: its linear purity becomes a critical field in which she explores the relationship between art, architecture, design, and social experience. In his most recent work, Genzken formalism generally increases its slim and sophisticated assemblies to create...

Luc Tuymans's paintings delve into the workings of how mythology is created. The reality of Luc Tuymans's work is almost 'twee', pleasant images of a lampshade or leopard-skin rug pass quite comfortably as aesthetic totems is that their cognitive association with the Holocaust, or the atrocities of...

Martina Steckholzer paintings offer a poetic ambience suggesting an infinite nothingness of space. Working from video footage filmed in art galleries, fairs air, studios and museums, she isolates frames that capture the in-between spaces, unusual angles, and overlooked advantages of familiar...

Tal R paintings are drawn from everyday life, stories of imaginary scenes suggest clumsy and childish fairy tale suburbs. Inspired by music, comics, television and nostalgic video game graphics, more than Picasso, Matisse, and Albers, Tal R painting appropriates for its own means. Customizing the...

Marlene Dumas was born in Cape Town and graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1975. She studied psychology in Holland for two years (1979-1980). Since then she has had numerous exhibitions and his reputation has grown steadily. She has participated in...

Art Christian Holstad expresses an acute sensitivity to the emotional underpinnings of everyday life. Drawings, sculptures, photographs, performances, collages, and installations distill the results of the examination Holstad, a wide range of sources into poetic reflections on love and loss.Hanging...

This picture, which is the odd one of four presented here, is described by the artist as a "pedestrian landscape." A pastoral scene depicting a path through private property on an estate in rural Connecticut, he borrows both the order, the picturesque tradition of landscape and the loser, the most...