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Wangechi Mutu: Reimagining the Body and the World Through Hybrid Visions

Artist Portrait • Aug 8, 2025 • 5 minutes read

Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-American artist known for her powerful visual language that blends mythology, feminism, and Afrofuturism to explore identity, the body, and cultural history. Her multidisciplinary work—spanning collage, sculpture, video, and performance—has earned her international acclaim and a prominent place in major art institutions worldwide.

Dreams, Memory, and Abstraction: The Psychological Worlds of Qiu Xiaofei

Artist Portrait • Aug 4, 2025 • 5 minutes read

Qiu Xiaofei is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his introspective paintings that blend figuration and abstraction to explore memory, the subconscious, and psychological landscapes. His work captivates audiences with its emotional depth, layered textures, and evocative visual language.

Myths, Landscapes, and Surreal Disruptions: The Enigmatic World of Ged Quinn

Artist Portrait • Aug 1, 2025 • 6 minutes read

Ged Quinn is a British contemporary artist known for merging classical landscape painting with surreal, political, and historical disruptions that challenge traditional narratives. His richly detailed works explore themes of memory, ideology, and decay, earning him international recognition and a place in major collections and exhibitions.

Alessandro Deshon: A powerful voice in Central American neo-expressionist art

Artist Portrait • Jul 31, 2025 • 4 minutes read

Born in Managua in 1993, Alessandro Deshon is a self-taught artist whose powerful work fuses raw emotion, personal symbolism, and neo-expressionist energy. Infused with love, memory, and Central American identity, his painting is striking in its sincerity, visual density, and rich message. Between controlled chaos and hidden tenderness, each canvas is a cry from the soul—both intimate and universal. A work to discover, to feel... and to follow closely.

Must-See Exhibit of the Season: Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting

Art News • Jul 30, 2025 • 4 minutes read

“The Anatomy of Painting” at the National Portrait Gallery is the first UK museum retrospective of Jenny Saville, showcasing over 30 years of her powerful, body-focused work. The exhibition highlights her raw, emotional exploration of the human form through monumental paintings and intimate drawings that challenge beauty norms and confront contemporary issues like identity, trauma, and transformation.

Farhad Moshiri: Pop Culture, Tradition, and the Glitter of Iranian Identity

Artist Portrait • Jul 28, 2025 • 6 minutes read

Farhad Moshiri is a pioneering Iranian contemporary artist known for blending traditional Persian aesthetics with Western pop culture to explore themes of identity, consumerism, and cultural contrast. Through his use of materials like glitter, embroidery, and found objects, he creates visually striking, ironic works that have earned him international acclaim and a prominent place in global art discourse.

Nyoman Masriadi: Power, Satire, and the Indonesian Contemporary Voice

Artist Portrait • Jul 21, 2025 • 5 minutes read

Nyoman Masriadi is a leading contemporary Indonesian artist known for his powerful figurative paintings that fuse satire, social commentary, and pop culture. Through his bold visual language and use of text, he critiques political and cultural issues while reflecting the complexities of modern Southeast Asian life.

Glenn Ligon: Language, Identity, and the Power of Representation

Artist Portrait • Jul 15, 2025 • 7 minutes read

Glenn Ligon is a groundbreaking conceptual artist whose work uses text and language to explore themes of race, identity, and cultural memory, transforming literature and history into powerful visual statements. Through paintings, neon, and installations, he challenges viewers to confront issues of visibility, erasure, and representation in contemporary America.

Interview | Rafał Labijak: My paintings are a prayer

Meet and discover • Jul 11, 2025 • 8 minutes read

"My paintings are a prayer, a conversation with the creator. The image is just a mirror reflecting light. Light in its dual particle-wave character, in its massless form, in its speed of propagation regardless of the reference system and subject to probability calculation according to the principles of quantum mechanics is unpredictable for me."...

Alfredo Brusorio – A work between geometric rigor and cosmic energy

Artist Portrait • 4 minutes read

At the crossroads of European heritage and a North American breath, the work of Brusorio explores a world where geometric forms come alive with a vital energy. A discreet yet demanding painter, trained by the great masters of abstraction, he has been deploying for over 40 years a deeply coherent aesthetic, between rigor and poetry. Discover why his works, as meditative as they are powerful, deserve your full attention today.

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