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Robert Gober

Robert Gober (b. September 12, 1954) is an American sculptor. His work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as sinks, doors, and legs.

Gober was born in Wallingford, Connecticut and studied at Middlebury College,[1] Vermont and the Tyler School of Art in Rome. He lives and works in New York City and is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery. He is best known for his sculptures, but also has made photographs, prints, and drawings and has curated exhibitions. Most recently, in the Whitney Biennial 2012, he curated a room of Forrest Bess’s paintings and archival materials dealing with the artist’s exploration into hermaphrodism. He also curated “Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2009 (which traveled to the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York in 2010). He has had exhibitions of his work in Europe, North America and Japan. One of his most well known series of works of sculptures of sinks.

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Won Ju Lim

Won Ju Lim (South Korea, 1968) currently lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches at the University of California. His first solo exhibition in Spain took place in 2005 at theDomus Artium, Salamanca. Lim also exhibited his works individually in the galleryspace as Pilar Parra & Romero (Madrid), the DA2 Centre of Contemporary Art(Salamanca), Emily Tsingou Gallery (London), or gallery Max Hetzler (Berlin). It recently took part in collective activities in countries like USA, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Korea.

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Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami (Tokio, 1962) es uno de los artistas más influyentes del Japón de posguerra.

Cursa estudios en la Universidad Nacional de Bellas Artes y Música de Tokio donde obtuvo un Graduado en Nihonga (pintura tradicional japonesa). En 1990 se introduce en el arte contemporáneo bajo la tutela de su compañero y amigo, el artista Masato Nakamura.

En 1993 crea su álter ego Mr. DOB, y comienza a ser reconocido dentro y fuera de Japón por su particular síntesis entre el arte tradicional japonés, las corrientes contemporáneas de su país como el anime y el manga y la cultura americana, fundamentalmente la corriente pop. De ahí que pronto sea denominado el Andy Warhol japonés.

Su obra abarca múltiples formas artísticas, desde la pintura a la escultura, el diseño industrial, el anime, la moda y otros medios y objetos merchandising de la cultura popular. Murakami pertenece a una generación de artistas que comenzaron a destacar durante el auge económico que vivió Japón a finales de la década de 1980 y cuyo lenguaje pictórico recurre a motivos ligados a la cultura popular. Su obra transmite una visión crítica de la sociedad japonesa actual, el legado de la tradición cultural del país, su evolución tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial y su relación con el mundo occidental, especialmente con EEUU.

En sus escritos acuñó el estilo artístico “Superflat”, término que ha servido también para calificar su obra, y que, además de caracterizarse por la bidimensionalidad, critica la propia estructura del arte, desdibujando los límites entre la alta y baja cultura. Su trilogía de exposiciones “Superflat”: Superflat (2000), Takashi Murakami: Kaikai Kiki (2002) and Little Boy (2005) se ha exhibido en importantes Museos de todo el mundo como la Parco Gallery en Tokio, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) de Los Ángeles, la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain en París o en la Serpentine Gallery de Londres. A lo largo 2008 y 2009 el artista ha sido celebrado con ©Murakami, la gran retrospectiva que  se exhibió en el Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, y que anteriormente fue presentada en el Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), el Brooklyn Museum de Nueva York y el Museum für Moderne Kunst de Frankfurt. Instituciones como el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del siglo XXI de Kanazawa, del Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, del Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York, del San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, de la Queensland Art Gallery y del Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, albergan obra de este polifacético artista que, además de colaboraciones en proyectos de diseño industrial, música o moda, es comisario, mecenas, crítico y precursor de ferias de arte.

Ernesto Neto

Ernesto Neto, one of the great Brazilian contemporary artists.
Ernesto Neto belongs to the large group of artists who follow the path marked by that another generation of Brazilian artists who broke the modern scheme in the late fifties and early sixties, artists like Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, try to eliminate the absolute nature of art to bring it to life (in its manifesto Neo-concrete, Oiticica and Clark talk, among other things, the need to see art not as an object but almost as a body). This new notion of artistic creation and experience proposed interaction of the viewer, an argument that is at the center of the aesthetic concerns of Ernesto Neto.
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Damien Hirst ¿art or speculation?

Born in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. His father, an auto mechanic, left his family when Hirst was 12. His mother, Mary, Catholic, worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau and says he lost control on the performer when he was very young. Hirst was arrested twice for shoplifting. Meanwhile, Damien saw his mother and uncompromising person: she once cut and tidy up your pants punk, and heated in an oven one of their albums of the Sex Pistols to turn it into a bowl of fruit. Damien said: “If she did not like what he was wearing, I quickly picked up the bus stop.” What he did was to encourage his mother’s taste for drawing, his only successful school subject.
His art teacher pleaded that Hirst would allow entry into the sixth grade, where he earned good grades, achieving a level “E” in the subject of art. He attended the University of Leeds, in Art and Design, but the first time I requested was denied admission. He worked for two years in the empowerment of construction sites in London, then studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (1986-89), but again was refused a first application. As a student, Hirst worked part time at a mortuary, an experience that later influenced his choice of subjects and materials.

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Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt was the most famous Austrian artists of his time. But despite that, the personal aspects of his biography are still a mystery just unveiled. You can only review the facts of his public career, something the whole insufficient to clarify the complexities of a refined and tight work, whose elaborate symbolism often sticks close to keys.

Born in Baumgarten, near Vienna, in the bosom of a family craft tradition that partly reflected the national plurality of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother was Viennese, and his father, Ernst Klimt, Goldsmith Bohemian origin that guided his three sons were also born of the marriage, four daughters to the same career path.

Thus, Gustav Klimt, the oldest boy, enters 1876 in the School of Applied Arts Imperial Museum of Art and Industry in Vienna, an institution founded a few years ago to improve the situation of the industrial arts in the Empire. There will be a strong technical and theoretical and, upon graduation in 1883, is with his brother Ernst and Franz Matsch mate the “Company of Artists”.
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