Categoría: Contemporáneos
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Teresa Oaxaca (1987)
Artist Statement «Aut inveniam viam aut faciam» «I shall either find a way or make one.» Teresa Oaxaca is an American born artist based currently in Washington D.C. She is a full time painter whose works can be seen in collections and galleries throughout the US and internationally. Her talent has been recognized and rewarded…
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DeCinti (1973), «La Nave de los Necios»
Fuente: Wikipedia La nave de los Locos o de los necios (en el original alemán, Das Narrenschiff, en su traducción latina, Stultifera Navis) es una obra satírica y moralista publicada en Basilea en 1494 y escrita por el teólogo, jurista y humanista conservador de origen alsaciano y cultura alemana Sebastian Brant (o Brand). Es una sucesión de 112 cuadros críticos (el número puede variar dependiendo de las ediciones) acompañados cada uno con un grabado, en los que…
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Peter Lippmann (1956)
Fuente: peterlippmann.com Peter Lippmann is an American-born photographer who has worked in Paris for the past twenty-five years. Lippmann specializes in still life, advertising, magazine work, food, and trompe l’oeil. His clients include Marie Claire, Cartier Art Magazine, NY Times Magazine, The Sunday Times, Le Figaro, Cartier, Audemars Piguet, Fürterer, SFR, SNCF, Christian Louboutin and many…
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Javier Quintanilla (1945)
Javier Quintanilla www.javierquintanilla.net Entre 1976 y 2014 realiza numerosas exposiciones individuales y colectivas en Museos, Universidades y Galerías de Arte públicas y privadas en: Alemania: Colonia. Bélgica: Bruselas. Brasil: Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Curitiba y Florianópolis. España: Barcelona, Madrid, Girona, Ibiza, Cuenca, Mahón, Valladolid, Sevilla y Toledo. Estados Unidos: Lexington y Minneapolis. Francia: Paris,…
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Jimmy Nelson (Kent, 1967)
Fuente: http://www.beforethey.com/ Jimmy Nelson (Sevenoaks, Kent, 1967) started working as a photographer in 1987. Having spent 10 years at a Jesuit boarding school in the North of England, he set off on his own to traverse the length of Tibet on foot. The journey lasted a year and upon his return his unique visual diary, featuring…
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Antonio López / Escultor
Antonio López García nació en 1936 en Tomelloso, Ciudad Real. En 1949, con solo trece años de edad llegó a Madrid, con la intención de aprender el arte de la Pintura, y desde entonces su vida ha estado ligada a nuestra ciudad. Entre 1950 y 1955 estudió en la Academia de Bellas Artes de San…
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Francis Bacon interviewed by David Sylvester
Francis Bacon by David Sylvester ‘One continuous accident mounting on top of another’ An edited extract from Interviews with Francis Bacon by David Sylvester in 1963, 1966 and 1979 The Guardian, September 2007 David Sylvester: Have you ever had any desire at all to do an abstract painting? Francis Bacon: I’ve had a desire…
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Lucien Freud by David Kamp
Freud, Interrupted. (February 2012) Lucian Freud, who died last year, still creating masterpieces at 88, was intensely private, rejecting the idea that an artist’s life mattered to his art. But Sigmund’s grandson, arguably the greatest portrait painter of his era, forged his closest bonds in his studio. With two major Freud retrospectives in view, David…
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Paula Rego
Paula Rego (Lisboa, 1935) es una de las pintoras figurativas más relevantes de la escena internacional y una de las voces plásticas más lúcidas y combativas surgidas en la segunda mitad del siglo XX. La producción artística de Rego está enraizada en experiencias y recuerdos personales, en siniestras fantasías, en la historia del arte y…
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Tony Bevan
Tony Bevan (b.1951) is one of Britain’s most distinctive figurative painters. Since the early 1980s he has been making images in acrylic and charcoal that extend the tradition of expressive figure-based painting associated with such older painters as Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach. Bevan’s singular approach focuses in particular on the human head which is…
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David Hockney – CAMARA WORKS
David Hockney / CAMARA WORKS David Hockney is a great painter,but he has also known fame through photography, although he does not mince his words when he says ‘Photography will never equal painting!’ Perhaps this is the wrong argument as they are different media and needn’t be compared. However he does make judgemental comments about…
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Michael Borremans – Whistling a happy Tune
Michaël Borremans WHISTLING A HAPPY TUNE (2008) es el título de una publicación que recoge la última obra dibujada de Michaël Borremans (1963, Geraardsbergen). Como podemos comprobar por el título no vamos a sacar una información clara sobre los contenidos temáticos o sobre las técnicas empleadas por el autor. Sin embargo, es fiel a…
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Philip Akkerman – Interview
Taking self-portrait as his sole subject, Philip Akkerman (*1957, Vaassen, NL) decided to pursue a career in painting at the tender age of 18 when the others were announcing heroically to him the tragic death of painting. “How can painting be dead if I wanted to paint so much?” In the last 30 years, Akkerman…
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Wolfe Von Lenkiewicz
Wolfe von Lenkiewicz (British, b. 1966) Wolfe von Lenkiewicz’s chief artistic concern is the appropriation of language and mythology. He boldly experiments with hybrid visual combinations that straddle the murky borders of the shocking and offensive. His art historical intervention demonstrates our own complacency of art towards famous images, namely those highly learnt visual compositions…
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Cy Twombly interviewed by Nicholas Serota
Nicholas Serota on Cy Twombly I first became aware of Cy Twombly’s work in the early 1970s, through catalogues and occasional sightings in European museums of his sensitive and sometimes luscious paintings, with their highly personal response to classical cultures and contemporary painting. It is always a privilege to visit an artist in their studio.…
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Avigdor Arikha
Avigdor Arikha, pintor francoisraelí fallecido el 29 de abril de 2010 en París, un día después de cumplir los 81 años, era un maestro a la hora de inmortalizar escenas cotidianas de enigmática belleza. Los críticos de arte han resaltado que, pese a la luminosidad vital que domina sus cuadros, consiguió dotarles también de una…
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Philip Pearlstein / From Robert Hughes
The Philip Pearlstein retrospective now at the Brooklyn Museum [review published in 1983], curated by Russell Bowman, is a dense and satisfying show. Pearlstein’s work has not lost its episodic power of surprise: one tends to feel more familiar with it than one is. What is so new about a nude in a room, done…
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Yan Pei-Ming
Yan Pei-Ming (Chinese, b.1960) is a painter most known for his epic-sized portraits of Mao Zedong, finished with large expressive brushstrokes and sparse use of color. Born in Shanghai during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Yan took up painting as a hobby, later applying to the Shanghai Art and Design School, where he was rejected because of…
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Tom Of Finland – Institute of Contemporary Arts, UK
Tom of Finland’s sultry bikers and lumberjacks are storming art galleries. A mainstay of gay erotic art for decades, the Finnish artist’s illustrations have been increasingly embraced by the contemporary art world, no doubt admiring their urgent message and titillated in equal measure. Yet the artist’s work has only been shown in England once, as…
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Jean Michel Basquiat – Gagosian Gallery HK
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/jean-michel-basquiat–may-21-2013/exhibition-video I don’t think about art while I work. I try to think about life. —Jean-Michel Basquiat Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce the first exhibition in Hong Kong of paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat. An acclaimed exhibition at Gagosian New York earlier this year drew tens of thousands of visitors, attesting to Basquiat’s acute relevance…
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Eric Fischl – The bed, The chair, The sitter
Si bien sus primeras obras están cercanas a la abstracción, a partir de 1976 introduce elementos figurativos, derivando a finales de los setenta hacia un estilo realista de fuerte carácter expresivo, con influencia de expresionistas como Max Beckmann, Lucien Freud o pintores de la tradición naturalista norteamericana, como Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent o Edward Hopper. Su temática se…
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Andrew Salgado PORTRAITS!
Salgado’s practice is an evolving process exploring concepts of identity through assertive, gestural figurative paintings. Salgado’s practice (re)considers the tangibility and impermanence of the body, but also inwardly comments upon the fragility of self. Accordingly, Salgado exploits the purely physical properties of media to inform resonating themes within his work. In an effort to surpass…
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Michael Hussar – Gothic Wonderland
Driven by love, hate, sin, redemption and death, Michael Hussar’s oil paintings present the viewer with a contextual maturity that is both confrontational and evocative. Hussar describes his work as «a voyeuristic snapshot of perceived humanity, complete with freaks and fakery; a gothic wonderland illuminating the gray area between truths and lies.» Hussar’s attachment to…
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Jenny Saville. Exposición en Gagosian Gallery, NY
http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/jenny-saville–september-15-2011/exhibition-video http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/leonardo-playlist/*/chooseMedia/7/
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Dan Witz. Hiperrealista
Comenzó su carrera a finales de los 70 con artistas tan míticos como Basquiat o Haring, este nunca ha abandonado la calle. El resultado son obras al óleo figurativas hiperrealistas, tratados con maestría y transmitiendo presión, agonía, dolor, gozo… http://www.danwitz.com/index.php?article_id=52
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Claudio Bravo in Morocco, (pintor hiperrealista chileno) (fr)
Claudio Bravo Camus por santahelena
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Hendrik Kerstens (1956)
http://www.danzigergallery.com/exhibition/hendrik-kerstens http://www.hendrikkerstens.com Press Release Hendrik Kerstens in Danziger Gallery January 10 – February 16, 2013 Born in the Hague in 1956, Hendrik Kerstens has for the last 17 years been producing an ongoing body of work that explores some of the many intersections between painting and photography. Using his daughter Paula as his only subject,…