The Baroque and Color VII Although often associated with the post-minimalist tendency, Richard Tuttle is in fact one of the most disconcerting and hard to pin-down American artists of the last fifty years. He ‘tinkers’ with poor materials such as…
Der Stillschweigbefehl (Order to Remain Silent) In the 1960s, Günter Brus, a recent Fine Art graduate, joined the Viennese Actionist school, one of the most radical, protest-driven art movements of the latter half of the twentieth century. Like his fellow artists…
Ohne Titel (Face Farces) [Untitled (Face Farces)] Arnulf Rainer created the first of his Übermalungen (overpaintings) in 1952, covering reproductions of art works with paint; to the point of making them in part unrecognisable. He painted over his own canvases and attacked…
P-21 Michio Yoshihara was the son of Jirō Yoshihara, the art theorist behind the group Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai (Association for Concrete Art) (1954-1972), which he founded shortly after the Second World War in Ashiya. The group…
Peinture (Painting) Yoshishige Saito, like his contemporary Jirō Yoshihara, played a pivotal role in developing abstract art in Japan. He began painting as a teen, discovering an interest in Western avant-garde movements such as Futurism, Dadaism, and…
Sans titre (Untitled) Since the 1970s, Pierre Schwerzmann has been exploring the condition of painting as a space of perception rather than as a cultural object. At times his work has focused on the painting’s stretcher, at others…
Braunvieh (Brown Cow) Dieter Roth made art using whatever came to hand. He enjoyed using materials such as foodstuffs, including chocolate, banana, salami and cheese, that not only produced interesting aesthetic effects like rings of grease, but also…
8 che riporta 8 – La natura interloquisce sempre e solo con se stessa? Paesaggio con vento – Fibonacci (8 Which Reports 8 – Does Nature Always Interact Only with Itself? Landscape with Wind – Fibonacci) In the 1960s and 1970s, the Fibonacci sequence ([0], 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on) was a constant reference for artists such as Mel Bochner, Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt,…
Green Scarf Influenced by pop art, Alex Katz produced a body of figurative painting dominated by portraits and landscapes. His subjects are broken down into large sections of colour enriched with careful detailing in a smooth, neutral…
Vol de Viol de Fgary de Gambe (Theft of a Viola da Fgary da Gamba) The Danish artist Asger Jorn was a member of several poetic-political groups, including CoBrA (1948–51) and the Situationist International (1957–72). Jorn is best known for his naïve, expressive paintings and the 1959 Modifications series of…