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As the first Peter Doig (1959) portfolio, Ten Etchings was considered by the Scottish painter as "a way of cataloguing some of the work I had made over the previous years". The previous works were a series of paintings he made between 1992 and 1995 altering photos from a personal collection, from … Read More
Collision House is a 1981 work by artist and architect Vito Acconci which explicitly combines two of his main interests and activities. The departing point is the presence of two pure volumes, geometrically well defined as triangular prisms and materialized by two structures in corrugated aluminum. One volume stands on its base and the other … Read More
Brion Nuda Rosch is a multimedia American artist and curator currently living in San Francisco. His collages superimpose small pieces of paper of a single color with found photographs of landscapes, mostly rocky and deserted areas. The very simple gesture creates a stark contrast in the picture: the sheet of paper mimics the presence of … Read More
Pepper, Cardamom, Cinnamon, Basilico, Cherry, Lapislazzuli, Camomilla and Sugar are eight colorful potteries designed by Ettore Sottsass between 1972 and 1973 and produced by a young master ceramist, Alessio Sarri, in 1987. With this series, called Indian Memory, designer and architect Ettore Sottsass Jr. managed to translate architectural archetypal forms, discovered during his 1972 Indian … Read More
Andrea Grützner (1984) is a photographer living and working in Berlin. In the series Erbgericht, the artist depicts a traditional village guesthouse in rural Saxony (Germany), owned by the same family for five generations, since 1889. As the building has cast a spell on her for years, she is able to recount the memory of generations … Read More
In French, the word trumeau defines the central pillar of a portal in a gothic architecture, but it also indicates, more generically, the wall space between two windows; after the 18th Century: the mirror hung in the corresponding space. From this meaning, the term goes to define a widespread furniture typical of the 18th century, consisting of … Read More
Gianni De Luca was an Italian comic book artist known for his drawing mastery and the variety of techniques he introduced into the comic art. His works are formally revolutionary, but always for the sake of content: the representation of the movement, the solutions in the board’s layouts, the cancellation of the cartoon scanning for the “table-sequence”, … Read More
After the death of her parents, wealthy Josabeth Sjöberg (1812-1882), formerly daughter of a clerk in a Swedish government department, became poor and was obliged to work as a governess and music teacher in high bourgeois homes in 19th Century Stockholm. As a technically unsophisticated, yet meticulous watercolourist, Mademoiselle Sjöberg used her free time to carefully portray the everyday life of the … Read More
Tony Bevan is a British artist who currently lives and works in London. The architectural spaces in his paintings are described by thickly painted lines of only one color for each work, lines which appear in deep contrast with the clear background. Constructions take shape on canvas through a reduced language composed by silhouettes of … Read More
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