acrylic on canvas
Giorgio Griffa is an Italian abstractionist painter.
He works in the style of abstract painting and paints with acrylics on canvas or even burlap, which are simply nailed to the wall. When folded, the paintings form folds, which Griffa considers the basis of his compositions.
Hans Hartung was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the Legion d'honneur.
Hsiao Chin is a Chinese modernist painter who has worked in Europe.
Born into an intellectual family in Shanghai, Hsiao moved to Taiwan in 1949 and was educated in the art department of the Taipei Teachers' Training School in Taiwan Province of Taipei (now National Taipei Teachers' University). In 1955, he and seven other artists founded the Ton Fan Art Group, the first postwar contemporary art group in Taiwan that attempted to break free from realism and sought a modern expression of Eastern spirituality.
As an innovative artist and co-founder of significant modernist movements in Taiwan and Europe, Hsiao's work explored Asian philosophy while embracing forms of Western postwar avant-garde practices.
In the mid-1950s, Hsiao settled in Milan, where he lived for half a century. In 1961, along with Italian painter Antonio Calderara and Japanese sculptor Adzuma Kenjiro in Milan, he co-founded the Punto movement, which brought together numerous Eastern and Western abstractionist artists. Xiao Qin's work has been exhibited around the world, including New York's MoMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Art Museum of China, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, and the National Taiwan Museum of Art.
Hsiao Chin is a Chinese modernist painter who has worked in Europe.
Born into an intellectual family in Shanghai, Hsiao moved to Taiwan in 1949 and was educated in the art department of the Taipei Teachers' Training School in Taiwan Province of Taipei (now National Taipei Teachers' University). In 1955, he and seven other artists founded the Ton Fan Art Group, the first postwar contemporary art group in Taiwan that attempted to break free from realism and sought a modern expression of Eastern spirituality.
As an innovative artist and co-founder of significant modernist movements in Taiwan and Europe, Hsiao's work explored Asian philosophy while embracing forms of Western postwar avant-garde practices.
In the mid-1950s, Hsiao settled in Milan, where he lived for half a century. In 1961, along with Italian painter Antonio Calderara and Japanese sculptor Adzuma Kenjiro in Milan, he co-founded the Punto movement, which brought together numerous Eastern and Western abstractionist artists. Xiao Qin's work has been exhibited around the world, including New York's MoMA and Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Art Museum of China, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, and the National Taiwan Museum of Art.
Peter Klasen is a German contemporary sculptor, painter and photographer living in France.
Klasen's work has been exhibited in numerous countries and bought by renowned museums and collections. He has received commissions for frescoes in public buildings in France. Daniel Sibony wrote of Klasen's visual world that it "celebrates our modern, highly mechanised, sterile society in order to denounce, as it were, its inhuman coolness and threatening emptiness." With his works, Klasen leads the viewer "to a hopeless and uncompromising confrontation with the brutal reality of today's society.
Peter Klasen is a German contemporary sculptor, painter and photographer living in France.
Klasen's work has been exhibited in numerous countries and bought by renowned museums and collections. He has received commissions for frescoes in public buildings in France. Daniel Sibony wrote of Klasen's visual world that it "celebrates our modern, highly mechanised, sterile society in order to denounce, as it were, its inhuman coolness and threatening emptiness." With his works, Klasen leads the viewer "to a hopeless and uncompromising confrontation with the brutal reality of today's society.
Ralf Winkler, alias A. R. Penck, was a German painter, printmaker, sculptor, and jazz drummer. A neo-expressionist, he became known for his visual style, reminiscent of the influence of primitive art.
Mario Schifano was an Italian painter and collagist of the Postmodern tradition. He also achieved some renown as a film-maker and rock musician.
He is considered to be one of the most significant and pre-eminent artists of Italian postmodernism.
Hans Hartung was a German-French painter, known for his gestural abstract style. He was also a decorated World War II veteran of the Legion d'honneur.
Enrico Bai was an Italian sculptor, painter, art theorist and anarchist.
