Gil Heitor Cortesão’s paintings look to the design aesthetic of the 1960s and ’70s, depicting spaces characterized by clean, hard lines and generally devoid of human presence. Working off images from ’60s interior design magazines, Cortesão paints layers of paint onto Plexiglas and presents the reverse side of the work when he exhibits them, creating a muted, dream-like quality that suggests the decline of the utopian promises of the Modernist era.
Meng Zhou born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China in 1992, is of a generation that has formed its personalities and beliefs during a period of shifting social and economic circumstances, and through a boom in the availability of information and technology.
Have you every experience something too unfathomable to conceive? A life changing event that you are apprehensive to share, due to the magnitude the idea represents? You are not alone...
We’d all like to believe that time stands still when it comes to art. Your insides melt and succumb to the profundity of stillness in motion, a time captured and frozen before your eyes. But, that’s simply not true, time is a product of art, it’s manipulated and solicited to manifest charge and state obviousness in an inescapable continuum.
Gideon Rubin (b.1973) is an Israeli artist based in London. He received his BFA from School of Visual Arts in New York and MFA from Slade School of Art in London.
Olcay Kuş (1985) is an emerging artist, living and working in Istanbul for seven years. He had four solo exhibitions entitled “An Ordinary Day” (2011, Istanbul), “Game Center” (2014, Istanbul), “Masterless Tranquility” (2015, Istanbul) and “Going Uphill” (2017, Istanbul).
Marta is a Slovenian photographer and creative director, specialising in portrait, fashion and advertising. She is alumni of London's renowned Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design. Her work has been published in several books and more than fifty international publications, such as VICE magazine (UK), Vogue (UK), Marie Claire (ME) and Elle (ME).
174 international galleries, 6 prizes and 3 days of talks with curators, critics, artists and museum directors: this is miart 2017, the centrepiece of the Milan Art Week.
The Milan Art Week 2017 is officially on, a lot of events will take place all over the city, with special exhibitions, openings and one of the most important Italian art fairs: MiArt 2017, with a new artistic director, Alessandro Rabottini, right-hand man of the former director Vincenzo de Bellis, who is now Curator of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Liam Gillick (b.1964) deploys multiple forms to expose the new ideological control systems that emerged at the beginning of the 1990s. He has developed a number of key narratives that often form the engine for a body of work. McNamara (1992 onwards) Erasmus is Late & Ibuka! (1995 onwards) Discussion Island/Big Conference Center (1997 onwards) and Construction of One (2005 onwards).
Peter Stauss’ paintings recreate fables of our times. Deriving imagery from a cross-section of ideological, historical, religious and art-historical sources, his work combines essential philosophical themes with questions about the genesis of form in painting and sculpture. A recurring cast of characters has populated his canvases over the years.
Rele Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria is currently showing Her Story, an exhibition comprised of five female artists that contributes to the developing narrative of women, as both an individual experience and a social concept. Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, Oluchi Zọtam, Queen Nwaneri, Buki M. Animashaun, and Haneefah Adam each voice their female experience through art to communicate a response to the social and political circumstances that women live in, as well as to deepen their and our understanding of Women from a woman’s point of view.
