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.
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.
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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Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor (* Bombay, 1954) is one of the most influential Indian sculptors of his generation. Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 70′s, when he moved to this city to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art Design.
He was educated in his early years in India in the “Doon School”. Later he moved to Britain and attends the “Hornsey College of Art” and “Chelsea School of Art & Design” in the UK.
Kapoor quickly achieved fame since 1980s. Since then he has won international acclaim, exhibiting widely throughout the world in places like the Tate Gallery and Hayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel, Munich, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, MAK Vienna, ICA Kunsthal Boston and Basel.
Unique exhibitions of his work were held at the Tate and Hayward Gallery in London, Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the National Gallery in Ottawa, Musee des Arts contemporains (Grand-Hornu) in Belgium, the Museum of CAPC Contemporary Art in Bordeaux and at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Brazil. His works are shown around the world, including: Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate Modern in London, Fondazione Prada in Milan, the Guggenheim in Bilbao, De Pont Foundation in the Netherlands, and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa, Japan.
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Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky was born Leizpig, 1955 German Photographer.With short age, his family moves to Dusseldorf where his father initiates him in the photography. It studies in the Academy of the Arts of this city and in the Folkwangschule of Essen, founded by Otto Steinert. In his beginnings adopts a next style to the of his teachers, Bernd and Hilla Becher, those who develop to finals of the 50 a new photographic aesthetics characterised by subjects of anonymous industrial architecture and abandoned that today is known like the new objectivity. In 1984 it abandons this style and restarts a more spontaneous observation of the reality, with scenes flooded of light that remember the work of young American artists like Stephen Shore or Joel Sternfeld. His work gives a decisive twist in 1990, as a result of a trip to Japan in which it photographs the stock market centre of Tokyo and that carries him to recover the precise methods of the Becher and of the commercial photographers. In the transcurso of the decade of the ninety incorporates to his work the digital manipulation. His work has put in relation with the speech of the posmodernidad; it realises an acute analysis of the social behaviour standardised, product of a world transformed by the high technology and the globalisation, of this that the serialización like subject in his images, usually of big format, was frequent. It has exposed in institutions of all the world, as for example: Kunsthalle Zurich (1991), Of Appel of Amsterdam (1992), National Museum Arts centre Queen Sofia. MNCARS (2001), Centre Pompidou (2002), MoMA of New York (2005), ICA London (2006) or Kunstmuseum Basel (2007), between many others. Leer más
Philippe Halsman
Halsman Was born on 2 May 1906 in Riga in the breast of a Jewish family and studied engineering in Dresde. In 1928 it was accused publicly of parricide; his father that had by name Morduch fell and died during an excursion campestre in the alpes Austrian, however the people of the surroundings did not doubt in accusing it to having committed murder, influenced by his Jewish origin and of the existent antisemitism and to fault of other proofs. It would be carried to trial and convict to four years of prison and of not being by the pressure of a stood out group of intellectuals, between which found Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann and Albert Einstein, had happened between grilles more time of the two years that of by himself was. Afterwards it installed in Paris where worked like independent fashionable photographer and collaborated in the magazine Vogue. In 1940, begun the Second World War and in front of the imminent arrival of the German army left to the United States with help of Albert Einstein, where would achieve world-wide fame, arriving to realise more than one hundred covers for the magazine Life. In 1947 it obtained the American nationality.
If by something characterised Halsman was by his wit, materialised especially through the technician of the “jumping style” or “jumpology”, to which he gave origin. It treated to portray to the person jumping, for like this achieve an image of this much more real, truer, without artifice any, without that the brain could control the expression of the face. «In a jump, the mask falls . The real person does visible», explained Halsman. The result was an image of the very distinct person to as it was used to to appear, and thus with big appeal for the public, these «images of jumps» published in 1949 achieving big success. No all were jumps, but always his photographies showed fun situations, and some, something provocadoras.
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