Curated by Hou Hanru and Giulia Ferracci
MAXXI - Rome
By Paul Laster
With more than 100 works in a wide range of media by 36 artists, “Home Beirut: Sounding the Neighbors” offered a considered overview of art from the past 30 years by artists related to the Lebanese capital and its diaspora.
Spanning several galleries [...]
Phoenix Art Museum
By Paul Laster
A painter, sculptor and printmaker, Matt Magee has created his own visual belief system through the making of abstract, minimalist paintings and works on paper that explore systems, repetition and sequencing and the construction of surreal sculptures, which poetically blend elements from nature with manmade objects.
Magee was born in [...]
An American post-conceptual artist, writer and theorist, who splits his time between Los Angeles and Berlin, Warren Neidich has been exploring scientific and philosophical ideas in his art for the past 30 years. Widely published and exhibited Neidich works in a variety of media-from photography, video and painting to Internet downloads, noise installations [...]
George Bergès Gallery - New York
By Paul Laster
A rock musician turned artist, Johan Wahlstrom makes energetic paintings that blur the boundary between abstraction and figuration. Taking one of his own 2015 paintings of crowds of people seen from the performance stage as the point of departure, his solo show “Distorted Happiness” at George [...]
One of the co-founders of the influential ZERO group, Heinz Mack was already making avant-garde art when he and Otto Piene organized the first ZERO art show in 1957. Born in Germany in 1931, Mack attended the art academy in Düsseldorf in the 1950s and also earned a degree in philosophy from the [...]
Istituto Paolo Colosimo - Naples, Italy
Curated by Raisa Clavijo
By Paul Laster
Presenting a visual display in an educational center for the blind and visually impaired seems like a bit of a paradox, but that’s exactly what Annalaura di Luggo chose to do when she staged her exhibition “Blind Vision” at the Instituto Statale D’Istruzione [...]
Hauser & Wirth - New York
Curated by Midori Nishizawa
By Paul Laster
An avant-garde art movement that developed in postwar Japan, Gutai was founded by Jiro Yoshihara and a group of young artists from Osaka and Kobe in 1954. A self-taught artist and son of a wealthy Osaka merchant, Yoshihara called for a style of “art that [...]
