Sotheby’s Chairman Lisa Dennison explores the striking forms and chromatic intensity and of Clyfford Still’s PH144 (1947-Y-No.1). With its forceful combination of deep black, bright yellow and crimson red, this monumental work embodies everything that Still stood for as an artist and was notably selected by Still himself for inclusion in his seminal 1959 exhibition Paintings by Clyfford Still.
Cédric Kouassi Tchinan is an artist based in the Ivory Coast whose paintings have been exhibited nationally. His vivid optical art-inspired works speak of the spirit and of reflection. In addition, Tchinan explores themes relating to "odyssey", which represents our life journeys. He believes that although the path is difficult, it can also be viewed as a game that we can learn valuable lessons from.
Jo Applin gives an insight into both Lee Lozano’s life and her work, contextualizing her practice and highlighting her response to the constraints of constitutional systems, gender dynamics, power, money, and politics. Created in 1962–1963, the early paintings and drawings on view at Hauser & Wirth Somerset use airplanes as a central image and can be considered as examples of the artist’s passionate exploration of creative energy in its purist form. This focused body of early work exposes a complex and deeply intimate inner life grappling with one-sided gender and societal dichotomies, while other works display a form of ferocious humour and playfulness, exploiting the rhetoric of exaggeration to its most cogent effect. Her raw expressionist brush strokes create powerful works imbued with a very personal iconography, including genitals, religious symbols, tools and body parts. Lozano’s short lived but influential career remains a source of fascination, lauded by Lucy Lippard as the foremost female conceptual artist of her era in New York.
Courtney Kinnare is an abstract artist based out of Brooklyn, New York. Her abstract works are made from deadstock materials found on the streets of NYC. She fills her designs with hyper-color palettes rarely observed in the everyday life.
To celebrate the publication of The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, 1963–1965, Volume 2, this program illuminates Andy Warhol’s practice as a filmmaker, exploring the relationship between his films and his work in other media, and the importance of his films to twentieth-century art history. John G. Hanhardt, general editor of The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, 1963–1965, and former Curator and Head of Film and Video at the Whitney, will be joined by film scholar Bruce Jenkins and filmmaker Tom Kalin, contributors to the catalogue raisonné, to speak about the history of Warhol’s engagement with cinema and to share insights into why Warhol's films have been influential for generations of artists while also remaining largely unknown until now.
This video, which was published on "Gagosian Quarterly" in 2021, presents a behind-the-scenes look at Jia Aili’s studio in Beijing. He elaborates on his in-progress works, the complexity of his compositions, as well as his philosophies of and motivations for painting Artwork © Jia Aili Studio; director: Chen Lei; cinematography: Li Yafeng; editor (Chinese): Li Mo; editor (English): Ariel Roubinoff; Jia Aili studio coordination: Zhiyuan Wang
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David Katzowicz is a world explorer, who visually documents on whichever pieces of paper he has access to- from notepads, to the back of travel guides to out-of-currency bills.
Join Joana Vasconcelos on a virtual walk through her Lisbon studio, where she explores processes and inspirations behind her detailed work. In the context of with "Beyond", Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s exhibition in the underground gallery and open air, this is a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes and have an insight into Vasconcelos’ practice of creating her vibrant, often monumental sculpture, using fabric, needlework and crochet alongside everyday objects from saucepans to wheel hubs or whisky glasses. This video was created for Yorkshire Sculpture Park Directed by Luís Monge | Camera by Telmo Domingues | Sound by Jorge Cabanelas
Video for the exhibition of artist and costume designer Venera Kazarova in the Grand Khodynka gallery Costumes and concept Venus Kazarova Directed by Yura Boguslavsky Director of photography Svetlana Makarova Camera assistant Pavel Ukhanov Animators Maria Aligozhina, Polina Campioni, Lyuba Zhukova, Sasha Sharapov, Galya Astapova Models Liza Saksina, Diana Mukhamedshina, Anastasia Makarova, Anastasia Shelepova, Pavel Ukhanov, Anastasia Mukhametzyanova, Evgenia Shelepova Color correction, compositing Ilya Yudovich Sound, Music Sasha Chirkov, Ilya Kruchinin
In a new series of monumental light projections, art icon Jenny Holzer prompts urgent environmental action. Words from more than 40 global climate activists appear across the UK to coincide with COP26.
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Theresah Ankomah is an artist who lives and works in Accra, Ghana. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art and a Master of Fine Art Degree from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana. In 2017, she won the first runner up prize of the Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Art. Her artistic practice is expressed through performative installation. Ankomah has been working with kenaf woven baskets, strings, ropes, raffia and royal palm leaves as her principal material to explore the intricacies of ‘weaving’ through complexities of art historical ‘craft’ as well as trade, geopolitics, gender and capitalism.