Don EDDY
Don Eddy, oil on canvas, 1971 This American artist is one of the founders of photorealism, a postmodern neutral reality representation that follows the pop art. Photos, from different angles of the same setup of objects, constituted the base of his work. In doing so, the artist gave a different perception by deepening what no […]
David MCDERMOTT & Peter MCGOUGH
David McDermott & Peter McGough, acrylic on canvas, 1990 The artist duo who emerged in the 1980s during the American Neo-pop culture in New York, behaved like mavericks. Their painting and photography showed the theme’s of homosexuality, fashion, advertising and pop culture, but their spirit was, as it were, in the 19th century – they […]
Egon SCHIELE
Egon Schiele, charcoal and indian ink, 1909 The pinnacle of beauty can be found in the confrontation with Egon Schiele’s erotic drawings, as adored fragments of dreams. He drew the shameless honesty where the elicited sexuality offered lust to those who love life. His models, sometimes minors, balanced in challenging poses and with an erotic […]
Carl ANDRE
Carl Andre, steel, 1970 (Sol LeWitt in the background) This New York minimal artist made his earliest work in wood, later he used stone and metal. With his artistic personality he belonged to the minimal art, in which elementary geometric elements mapped out the spatial notion. His art has an industrial character and consists purely […]
Meyer VAISMAN
Meyer Vaisman, process ink on canvas, 1982 This Venezuelan artist settled in New York during the 80s. He was inspired by pop art and made use of mechanical reproduction techniques and existing imagery. As member of the Neo-Geo movement he criticized, often in a cynical way, consumerism, commercialization and socio-economic inequality in the society. In […]
Raoul DE KEYSER
Raoul De Keyser, triptych – oil on canvas, 1971 This Belgian artist Raoul de Keyser’s fundamental painted art provides reality with a pictorial quality. He distances himself from the anecdotes by infinitely reducing what he sees until it becomes abstract. This minimal way of thinking leads to a process of conceptualization that dilutes all tension […]
Huan ZHANG
Zhang Huan, ashpainting, 2007 Paintings, sculptures and installations from this Chinese dissident artist are well-known because of his also shocking performances. Mostly naked, just like a citizen without rights, Zhang Huan criticizes the social and political situations of China, both present and past. Themes like one-child policy, the influence of religion and communism are raised […]
Hermann NITSCH
Hermann Nitsch, blood and acrylic on canvas, 1989 This Austrian artist, with great interest for philosophy and psychology, is one of the founders of Viennese Actionism which is closely associated with the Fluxus movement. He criticized the Western culture and its consumption behaviour, and inspired by old sacrificial rituals he searched for the boundaries of […]
Nam June PAIK
Nam June Paik, mixed media, 1990 During the 60s, this South-Korean pioneer of video art and key figure of the Fluxus-movement played on a damaged piano to which all kinds of objects were attached. With this, Nam June Paik was the first composer of the acoustic anarchy. With synthesizers he mixed technological instruments to create […]
James ENSOR
Jamer Ensor, oil on canvas, 1939 He seemed visionary and he presented, in his idiosyncratic way, an oeuvre with a lot of criticism on society, religion and the art world. This pioneering innovator had an artistic talent for drawing and was an exceptional painter with a unique colour palette. Ensor linked his work to symbolism, […]