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Sprüth Magers (art Gallery)
Sprüth Magers is a commercial art gallery owned by Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, with spaces in London, Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York, and offices in Cologne, Hong Kong, and Seoul. The gallery represents over sixty artists and estates, including John Baldessari, George Condo, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Andreas Gursky, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, David Ostrowski, and Rosemarie Trockel. History In February 1983, Monika Sprüth opened her first gallery in Cologne with a focus on female artists.Herbert, M. "The Other Half", Frieze, March 2009, pp. 32. Philomene Magers, a long-time friend of Sprüth's from Bonn, took over her mother Philomene Magers Sr.'s gallery in 1989 at the age of 24, following her mother's passing. Previously, her mother had established the gallery in 1971 in the West German capital, focusing on showcasing work by young female artists like Rosemarie Trockel and conceptual artist Astrid Klein, as well as representing notable male artists such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monika Sprüth
Monika Sprüth (born May 18, 1949 in Memmingen) is a German art dealer and co-founder of Sprüth Magers. Early life and education Monika Sprüth graduated from high school in Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate in 1968 and first studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen University between 1968 and 1975.Rose-Maria Gropp (June 30, 2009)Werden Sie Präsidentin des 1. FC Köln, Frau Sprüth?''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung''. She then worked as an urban planner in Oberhausen until 1980, later as a teacher of secondary school construction, maths and art in Cologne. Career In 1983, she opened the ''Monika Sprüth Galerie'' in the ''Südstadt'' district of Cologne with an exhibition by Andreas Schulze (artist), Andreas Schulze. She initially exhibited young, at the time still unknown female artists such as Rosemarie Trockel,Carsten Probst (October 8, 2011)Mehr als nur Stricken''Deutschlandfunk Kultur''. Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer,Martin Herbert (March 12, 2009)The Other Half ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Demand
Thomas Cyrill Demand (born 1964) is a German sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Berlin and Los Angeles, and teaches at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. He makes photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces,Thomas Demand, 6 June - 20 August 2006 Serpentine Gallery. often sites loaded with social and political meanings.Thomas Demand: The Dailies, April 14 – May 19, 2012, Sprüth Magers London. Demand thus describes himself not as a photographer, but as a conceptual artist for whom photography is an intrinsic part of his creative process.Lucy Davies (March 15, 2011) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Kauffman
Craig Kauffman (March 31, 1932 – May 9, 2010) was an artist who has exhibited since 1951. Kauffman's primarily abstract paintings and wall relief sculptures are included in over 20 museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Tate Modern, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Life and career Kauffman first exhibited at the Felix Landau Gallery in Los Angeles, and was included in other Los Angeles group exhibits during the early 1950s. He was a member of the original group of artists at the Ferus Gallery (founded in 1957 by Edward Kienholz and Walter Hopps), and had a one-person show at that gallery in 1958. According to critic and historian Peter Plagens, the 1958 paintings were: ... Abstract Expressionist but contain the first evidence of a Los Angeles sensibility: ''Tell Tale Heart'' (1958) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernd And Hilla Becher
Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (; 20 August 1931 – 22 June 2007), and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or Typology (urban planning and architecture), typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids. As the founders of what has come to be known as the 'Becher school' or the Düsseldorf School of Photography, they influenced generations of documentary photographers and artists in Germany and abroad. They were awarded the Erasmus Prize and the Hasselblad Award. Biography Bernd Becher was born in Siegen. He studied painting at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart from 1953 to 1956, then typography under Karl Rössing at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1959 to 1961. Hilla Becher was born in Potsdam. Prior to Hilla's time studying photography at the Kunstak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cao Fei
Cao Fei ( zh, 曹斐, ; born 1978) is a Chinese multimedia artist born in Guangzhou. Her work, which includes video, performance, and digital media, examines the daily life of Chinese citizens born after the Cultural Revolution. Her work explores China's widespread internet culture as well as the borders between dreams and reality. Cao has captured the rapid social and cultural transformation of contemporary China, highlighting the impact of foreign influences from the United States and Japan. Some of her work is owned and displayed by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 2021 she won the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. Cao's ''My City is Yours'' exhibition is being shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney until 13 April 2025. Cao's ''The Future Is Not A Dream'' exhibition is on display at the MALBA museum in Buenos Aires until 17 February 2025. The Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, is featuring Cao's single channel video ''People’s Limbo in RMB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaari Upson
Kaari Upson (April 22, 1970 – August 18, 2021) was an American artist. The bulk of Upson’s career was devoted to a single series titled ''The Larry Project'' – paintings, installations, performances, and films inspired by a collection of one man's personal items she found in 2003. ''The Larry Project'' was exhibited at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2008, as part of their program ''Hammer Projects.'' Her work resides in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and is known for exploring themes of psychoanalysis, obsession, memory, and the body. She had lived and worked in Los Angeles. Biography Upson was born in San Bernardino, California, on April 22, 1970. However her date of birth is often listed as 1972, incorrectly. She attended New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture and later attended California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamela Rosenkranz
Pamela Rosenkranz (born 1979 in Altdorf, Uri, Switzerland) is a Swiss multimedia artist who uses light and liquid to demonstrate her concepts along with performance, sculpture, painting, and installation art. Her work explores ideas and concepts of what it means to be human, its ideologies, emptiness and meaninglessness, as well as globalization and consumerism. She is represented by Karma International, Zurich / Los Angeles; Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; and Sprüth Magers Berlin, London and Los Angeles. Education and career Rosenkranz graduated from the University of Zurich in 2005, and received her MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts, Bern, in 2010. In 2012, she completed an independent residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Rosenkranz's aesthetic choices are often informed by her extensive research into fields ranging from marketing and medicine to philosophy and religion. Her use of use of glass, plastic water bottles, and liquid reflecting surfaces stems from he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ArtReview
''ArtReview'' is an international contemporary art magazine based in London, founded in 1948. Its sister publication, ''ArtReview Asia'', was established in 2013. History Launched as a fortnightly broadsheet in February 1949 by a retired country medical practitioner, Dr Richard Gainsborough, and the first edition was designed by his wife, the artist Eileen Mayo, ''Arts News and Review'' set out to champion contemporary art in Britain, providing its readers with commentary, news and reviews. At the outset its focus was set firmly on the artist – its regular cover ‘Portrait of the artist’ introduced its readership to emerging artists as well as reconnecting with the past masters of modernism from before the war. Cover artists included Édouard Manet, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Lucian Freud. As its editorial would declare in 1954, Art News and Review's purpose was ‘to stimulate the criticism of contemporary art, to give to both painters and writers space they would ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Ruscha
Edward Joseph Ruscha IV (, ''roo-SHAY''; born December 16, 1937) is an American artist associated with the anti- pop art movement. He has worked in the media of painting, printmaking, drawing, photography, and film. He is also noted for creating several artist's books. Ruscha lives and works in Culver City, California. Early life and education Ruscha was born into a Roman Catholic family in Omaha, Nebraska, with an older sister, Shelby, and a younger brother, Paul. Edward Ruscha, Sr. was an auditor for Hartford Insurance Company. Ruscha's mother was supportive of her son's early signs of artistic skill and interests. Young Ruscha was attracted to cartooning and would sustain this interest throughout his adolescent years. Though born in Nebraska, Ruscha lived some 15 years in Oklahoma City before moving to Los Angeles in 1956 where he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute (now known as the California Institute of the Arts) under Robert Irwin and Emerson Woelffer from 1956 throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Artschwager
Richard Ernst Artschwager (December 26, 1923 – February 9, 2013) was an American painter, illustrator and sculptor. His work has associations with Pop Art, Conceptual art and Minimalism. Early life and art Artschwager was born in Washington, D.C., to European immigrant parents. His father, Ernst Artschwager, was a Protestant botanistHolland Cotter (October 25, 2012)An Enigma Wrapped in Formica''New York Times''. born in Prussia, who suffered greatly from tuberculosis. His mother, Eugenia (née Brodsky),Charmaine Picard (October 25, 2012)The Story Behind Richard Artschwager's Whitney Survey and High Line "blps"''ARTINFO''. an amateur artist and designer who studied at the Corcoran School of Art, was a Jews, Jewish Ukrainians, Ukrainian. From his mother, Artschwager received his love of art. In 1935, the family moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, because of his father's deteriorating health. At that time, Artschwager was already showing a talent for drawing. In 1941, Artschwager ente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ad Reinhardt
Adolph Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an American abstract painter and art theorist active in New York City for more than three decades. As a theorist he wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art and monochrome painting. Most famous for his "black" or "ultimate" paintings, he claimed to be painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint. He believed in a philosophy of art he called ''Art-as-Art'' and used his writing and satirical cartoons to advocate for abstract art and against what he described as "the disreputable practices of artists-as-artists". He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as Abstract Expressionism. He was also a member of The Club, the meeting place for the New York School abstract expressionist artists during the 1940s and 1950s. Background Reinhardt was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (April 1, 1933 – November 29, 1996) was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Early life and career Daniel Nicholas Flavin Jr. was born in Jamaica, New York, of Irish Catholic descent, and was sent to Catholic schools.Paul Levy (February 3, 2006)A radiant Dan Flavin retrospective''The Wall Street Journal''. He was named after his father, D. Nicholas Flavin. Dan Flavin studied for the priesthood at the Immaculate Conception Preparatory Seminary in Brooklyn between 1947 and 1952 before leaving to join his twin brother, David John Flavin, and enlist in the United States Air Force. During military service in 1954–55, Flavin was trained as an air weather meteorological technician [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
