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Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art.
Richard Serra was a prominent American sculptor, renowned for his monumental steel sculptures that transform viewers' perceptions of space and environment. Born on November 2, 1938, in San Francisco, California, Serra pursued his education in Art History and Fine Arts at Yale University, where he graduated with a BA and an MFA in 1964. His early career was marked by experimentation with nontraditional materials such as rubber, neon, and lead, reflecting a departure from traditional sculptural forms towards more abstract expressions.
Serra's work is characterized by its engagement with the physical properties of his materials and the spatial dynamics of his installation sites. He is perhaps best known for "Tilted Arc" (1981), a controversial installation in New York City's Federal Plaza, which was eventually removed following public debate over its presence. Despite the controversy, "Tilted Arc" exemplifies Serra's interest in site-specificity and the relationship between artwork, site, and viewer.
Throughout his career, Serra's sculptures have been exhibited globally, with significant works like "Snake" (1994-97) at the Guggenheim Bilbao and "Torqued Ellipse" series, reflecting his ongoing exploration of curvilinear forms and the interaction between space, viewer, and sculpture. His contributions to art have been acknowledged with awards such as the Praemium Imperiale in 1994.
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Salvo, real name Salvatore Mangione, was an Italian painter and sculptor who lived and worked in Turin.
He is known for his landscapes and still-lifes painted in vivid colors. Salvo also worked with marble, carving inscriptions on it.
Carl Andre is an American minimalist artist known for his sculptural works made of industrial materials such as metal plates, bricks, and concrete blocks. He was a key figure in the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which emphasized the use of simplified forms and materials.
In the 1960s, Andre began creating his signature floor sculptures, which consisted of standardized units of metal, wood, or other materials arranged in simple geometric patterns directly on the ground. His work was often controversial, as many critics saw it as overly simplistic or even nihilistic. However, Andre's sculptures were also celebrated for their understated beauty and their ability to challenge traditional notions of art and sculpture.
Throughout his career, Andre has exhibited his work in major museums and galleries around the world. Andre continues to live and work in New York City, where he remains an influential figure in the art world.
Alan Charlton is a British conceptual artist living and working in London.
Alan studied at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal Academy School, and from the very beginning of his artistic journey, since 1969 he has worked with only one color - gray. For Charlton, it is the most important as well as emotional color in existence, being, for example, the color of melancholy. "I am an artist who makes a gray picture" - this principle he follows all his life.
Alan Charlton creates simple, monochromatic gray abstractions based on rectangular shapes placed in space in a planned way. His conceptual works, uniformly painted in different shades of gray, often consist of simple geometric shapes broken down into modular elements.
Charlton's work has been exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Castello di Rivoli in Turin and the Tate in London.
William Nelson Copley was an American painter, writer, gallerist, collector, patron, publisher and art entrepreneur. His works as an artist have been classified as late Surrealist and precursory to Pop Art.
Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist. Her work explores body art, endurance art, feminist art, the relationship between the performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body". In 2007, she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art.
Walter Dahn is a German Neue Wilde artist who lives and works in Cologne.
Walter Dahn's work includes works of various media: photographs, drawings, logos, paintings, collages, stencil printing, installations and videos.
In addition to visual art, Dahn also works in music.
Jiří Georg Dokoupil is a Czech-German painter and graphic artist. He was founding-member of the German artist group Mülheimer Freiheit and the Junge Wilde Art movement, which arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Walter Dahn is a German Neue Wilde artist who lives and works in Cologne.
Walter Dahn's work includes works of various media: photographs, drawings, logos, paintings, collages, stencil printing, installations and videos.
In addition to visual art, Dahn also works in music.
Jiří Georg Dokoupil is a Czech-German painter and graphic artist. He was founding-member of the German artist group Mülheimer Freiheit and the Junge Wilde Art movement, which arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Jörg Immendorff was a German painter and sculptor, stage designer and decorator, and a member of the New Wild movement.
Immendorff painted in cycles that often lasted for years and were political in nature. His series of sixteen large paintings, Café Deutschland (1977-1984), is well known. In these colorful paintings, numerous disco lovers symbolize the conflict between East and West Germany.
Immendorff prepared several stage productions and designed sets for the operas Elektra and The Rider's Voyage. 25 of Immendorf's paintings were selected in 2006 for the illustrated Bible.
Francis Alÿs is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist.
His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. In 1986, Alÿs left behind his profession as an architect and relocated to Mexico City.
He has created a diverse body of artwork and performance art that explores urban tensions and geopolitics. Employing a broad range of media, from painting to performance, his works examine the tension between politics and poetics, individual action and impotence.
Francis Alÿs is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist.
His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. In 1986, Alÿs left behind his profession as an architect and relocated to Mexico City.
He has created a diverse body of artwork and performance art that explores urban tensions and geopolitics. Employing a broad range of media, from painting to performance, his works examine the tension between politics and poetics, individual action and impotence.
Francis Alÿs is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist.
His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. In 1986, Alÿs left behind his profession as an architect and relocated to Mexico City.
He has created a diverse body of artwork and performance art that explores urban tensions and geopolitics. Employing a broad range of media, from painting to performance, his works examine the tension between politics and poetics, individual action and impotence.
Markus Lüpertz is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. He also publishes a magazine, and plays jazz piano. He is one of the best-known German contemporary artists. His subjects are characterized by suggestive power and archaic monumentality. Lüpertz insists on capturing the object of representation with an archetypal statement of his existence. His art work is associated to neo-expressionism. Known for his eccentricity, German press has stylized him as a «painter prince».
Jörg Immendorff was a German painter and sculptor, stage designer and decorator, and a member of the New Wild movement.
Immendorff painted in cycles that often lasted for years and were political in nature. His series of sixteen large paintings, Café Deutschland (1977-1984), is well known. In these colorful paintings, numerous disco lovers symbolize the conflict between East and West Germany.
Immendorff prepared several stage productions and designed sets for the operas Elektra and The Rider's Voyage. 25 of Immendorf's paintings were selected in 2006 for the illustrated Bible.
Jonathan Meese is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. Meese's (often multi-media) works include paintings, collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play, De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein — Dr. Ezodysseusszeusuzur in 2007 at the Volksbühne Theater. He is mainly concerned with personalities of world history, primordial myths and heroes. Jonathan Meese lives and works in Ahrensburg and Berlin.
Matthias Weischer is a German artist and painter.
He graduated from the School of Graphic Arts and Book Art in Leipzig and also lives and works in Leipzig. Weischer's imaginative, incompatible interiors have become his calling card.
The never-populated, deserted rooms in his paintings create psychological tension and inexplicable anxiety in the viewer.
Roni Horn is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels and Hauser & Wirth.
Horn has been intimately involved with the singular geography, geology, climate and culture of Iceland.
Raymond Pettibon is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his older brother, Greg Ginn. He has subsequently become widely recognized in the fine art world for using American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, and religion to politics, sport, and sexuality.