In the winter of 1991–92, John Berger found himself wondering why the poster image for the Géricault exhibition then at the Grand Palais was not of one of the artist’s better-known paintings – The Raft of the Medusa or The Wounded Cuirassier.
In her exhibition ‘The Highest Point of an Empty Temple’, Polina Shcherbyna looks through disappointments, and horrors of the XXI century, refers to the cycle of tragedy and hope that repeats itself over the whole human history.
Niklas Asker (b. 1979, Nordingrå, Sweden) thinks of his paintings in three-dimensional terms, as objects which exist beyond the boundaries of the canvas; those imbued with weight, or mass.
I remember drawing a big middle finger on the back of my t-shirt in primary school. I wanted my clothes to match the intensity of Mimmo Haraditiohadi’s wardrobe.
The Paths to Modernity: Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay, Paris exhibition in Shanghai is so popular that "even Van Gogh cannot squeeze into his own bedroom in Arles", according to visitors to the Museum of Art Pudong in Shanghai.
The Haus for Media Art Oldenburg is pleased to present Counter-Expeditions, a major solo exhibition by Colombian American artist, researcher, and filmmaker Felipe Castelblanco.
The Persistence of Memory (La persistencia de la memoria) (1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism’s most famous painting, created by its most famous artist, featuring its most famous motif.
Palazzo Ducale in Genoa presents, in the rooms of the Appartamento del Doge, the great monographic exhibition “Dipingere l’invisibile” (Painting the Invisible) which pays homage to the work of a leading figure in contemporary art, the painter Giorgio Griffa (Turin, 1936).
A new graphic novel by Italian artist Dario Guccio. On the occasion of the publication, ten original drawings from the publication will be presented from June 12 – July 11, 2025.