Ariane Mueller’s “7 rue des Grands Augustins,” 2023, a series of eight acrylics on canvas, celebrates the joy of painting while also conveying a more complex message. In an oblique commentary on the Spanish Civil War, Mueller calls back to Picasso’s Guernica, 1937. Rather than reproduce aspects …
Stereotypes about modern Germany have long centered on the allure of the Autobahn and its license for limitless speed. In the exhibition “Wohin?” (Where to?), Young-jun Tak disseminates and rearranges this trope in order to dismantle the popular constructs of German national identity. [ read …
In 1946, Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) declared that conventional forms of representation had been exhausted. The following year, the artist founded Spatialism, a movement that dispensed with the traditional emphasis on illusion and illustration and instead condensed light, time, and space into a minimal gesture—in Fontana’s …