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Anthony Gormley

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Antony Gormley (London, 1950) is widely acclaimed for his sculptures, installations and public artworks that investigate the relationship of the human body to space. His work has developed the potential opened up by sculpture since the 1960s through a critical engagement with both his own body and those of others in a way that confronts fundamental questions of where human being stands in relation to nature and the cosmos.

Gormley’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and internationally and has also participated in major group shows such as the Venice Biennale and Documenta 8 among many others.

www.antonygormley.com

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Bureaucratics

 

Bureaucratics is a project by photographer Jan Banning consisting of a book and exhibition containing 50 photographs, the product of an anarchist’s heart, a historian’s mind and an artist’s eye. It is a comparative photographic study of the culture, rituals and symbols of state civil administrations and its servants in eight countries on five continents, selected on the basis of political, historical and cultural considerations: Bolivia, China, France, India, Liberia, Russia, the United States, and Yemen.

Jan Banning was born in The Netherlands in 1954, from Dutch-East-Indies immigrant parents. He studied social and economic history at the University of Nijmegen and has been working as a photographer since 1981.

 

www.janbanning.com

 

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Esther Stocker

 

The paintings, murals and installations of Esther Stocker, based on grid structures and on the colors black, white and gray, consistently manifest entanglements, interconnections, interpenetrations, both semantically and formally, for which the variably deployed grid motif functions as a metaphorical logo. Stocker consistently breaks with one-dimensional notions of order, space, and painting as contextual and relational factors and concepts. When an artist so persistently preoccupied with spatial structures and spatial experience, simultaneously calls attention to the fact that „we know nothing about space“ (Stocker), then her stance would seem to testify to a productive skepticism which arises from unremitting and methodical attempts at understanding, and from insight into their-in principle-interminability.

 

www.estherstocker.net

 

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Terry Haggerty

British artist Terry Haggerty has become known in recent years for paintings that express the formalist vocabulary of abstraction in a new way. The principle of serial composition can be discerned in Haggerty’s work: light-colored stripes alternate with darker ones to form regular, often horizontal arrangements, which also have a pattern-like quality due to their dense structure. This would not seem particularly remarkable were it not for the fact that Haggerty breaks this linear formation at the edges of the painting — and occasionally also at the symmetrical center of the composition—by bending the lines in a different direction as they approach the boundaries of the painting support. He combines humorous and historical references to form abstract compositions that electrify and manipulate the space around them.

 

www.terryhaggerty.net

 

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Daniel Arsham

The American artist Daniel Arsham is best known for his reworking of architectural and natural forms of the everyday. His surreal art has been exhibited around the world and will now been seen on the stage. Beginning march 29th and running until april 4th, Arsham will be collaborating with the Merce Cunningham dance company during the french national biennale of dance in Paris.

Daniel Arsham was born in 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio and work between New York and Miami. He had presented his work in multiple exhibitions since 2001 and is one of the winners of The Gelman Trust Fellowship. His pieces are available in galleries such as the Emanuel Perrotin in Miami.

 

www.danielarsham.com

 

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