Vettor Pisani Work from “Eroica/Antieroica” at MADRE, Naples. “Vettor Pisani figure appears to us today radically contemporary, that of a true precursor who successfully combined conceptual investigation with irony, the play of language with role playing, masking with the search for truth, major history with the chronicle of the trivial, the sacred with the profane, […]

Work from “Zelda Zonk” at Preface Gallery, Paris. “Zelda Zonk has escaped her primary identity. She has always refused to stick to a single self, contented to be chameleon-like. She wanted to be mobile, to hide and succumb to the joys of masks, disguise and role-play. 2 An exhibition of fictional artists.” – Timothée Chaillou/Preface Gallery

Mato Tannatt Work from his oeuvre. “Tannatt tends to circle complex political or sociological themes and then deliver works that are open and unstable, never unlocking the problems at their centre. For ‘Rendezvous Vous’, Tannatt reprinted the building’s notice of abandonment but, erasing the central chunk of its text, drew keyholes over it. He also […]

Olivia Erlanger Work from Material Studies. “Vivid, warm light fills the room and spreads over the desk as I sit and work at my computer. Daylight disappears slowly, burning, falling, bathing the Hudson River in washes of gold and rose. And while I am sure the sunset is spectacular, I keep my back turned, ignoring […]

Christopher Aque Work from his oeuvre. Christopher Aque is a New York-based artist working in sculpture, video, publishing, photography, and installation. By repurposing everyday images and materials, his work refers to experiences of “queerness” or “otherness” that are at once familiar and unsettling. Personal and consumer items such as the Abercrombie bags Aque collected as […]

Greatest Hits Work from their oeuvre. “It was the winter of 2001 — dark and cold, as usual. During the launch of the event we initiated a conversation with the audience about their experience on the subject of aliens. This discussion yielded very unexpected results: in a culture of few words, people picked up the […]

Sam Moyer Work from her oeuvre. “Examining these mysterious pictures up close you wonder if Ms. Moyer made them by meticulously copying photographs of wrinkled fabric, as Tauba Auerbach does. Ms. Moyer produces them by a kind of tie-dye process. She crumples sheets of fabric, dyes them black, stretches them out, makes stripes using bleach […]

  Sven Lukin Work from his oeuvre. “Lukin’s steady move into actual space culminated at the end of the 1960s in what is probably his best known work—an undulating 120-foot long wall relief in green, pink, and orange, permanently installed at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, New York. The next 30 years of Lukin’s […]

  Timm Ulrichs Work from his oeuvre. “…Ulrich’s work is interdisciplinary. He is a representative of Neodadaismus , body art and conceptual art . Also located Ulrichs busy with printmaking, the artist’s book and performance art. He is also known for his study of the language . Ulrich uses tautologies , paradoxesand ambiguities in the language – for example: ” In the beginning was the word at … “- as well as verbal terms artistic, usually in the […]

Martin Kippenberger Work from his oeuvre. “”Everything in moderation,” counseled Aristotle. Martin Kippenberger never got this message, as a good friend pointed out after the artist’s death at age forty-four in 1997. Kippenberger’s artistic career—based in his native Germany but encompassing such far-flung locations as Florence, Madrid, Vienna, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, […]