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Sophie Calle , The Sleepers (Antoine Gonthier, Twentieth Sleeper, and Patrice X., Twenty-First Sleeper), 1979

Sophie Calle

The Sleepers (Antoine Gonthier, Twentieth Sleeper, and Patrice X., Twenty-First Sleeper), 1979

Propped up on a bolster and a pile of pillows and tucked under warm blankets, fourteen-year-old Patrice X. is smiling timidly at the photographer. His…

Markus Raetz, Nichtrauch/Non-fumée (Notsmoke), 1990-1992

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Markus Raetz

Nichtrauch/Non-fumée (Notsmoke), 1990-1992

Markus Raetz’s drawings, engravings and sculptures play with the viewer’s visual perception: shapes are unveiled or they shift before our very eyes as we move…

Sophie Calle , Le Major Davel (Major Davel), 1994

Sophie Calle

Le Major Davel (Major Davel), 1994

Sophie Calle's work from the 1990s often stages works of art missing from museums for various reasons. Her 1991 Last Seen... series, for instance, referenced…

René Auberjonois , Nature morte aux fourchettes (Still Life with Forks), 1953

René Auberjonois

Nature morte aux fourchettes (Still Life with Forks), 1953

In his final years, René Auberjonois rose to international fame at the 1948 Venice Biennale and the 1955 Kassel Documenta. His unwavering commitment to figurative…

Eric Fischl , Untitled (Dog) (from the series <br>Four Aquatints)</br>, 1989

Eric Fischl

Untitled (Dog) (from the series
Four Aquatints)
, 1989

A woman is bending over, reaching for something we cannot see, while a dog watches her from a slight distance. The two protagonists seem to…

Richard Tuttle, The Baroque and Color VII, 1986-1987

Richard Tuttle

The Baroque and Color VII, 1986-1987

Although often associated with the post-minimalist tendency, Richard Tuttle is in fact one of the most disconcerting and hard to pin-down American artists of the…

Günter Brus , Der Stillschweigbefehl (Order to Remain Silent), 1988

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Günter Brus

Der Stillschweigbefehl (Order to Remain Silent), 1988

In the 1960s, Günter Brus, a recent Fine Art graduate, joined the Viennese Actionist school, one of the most radical, protest-driven art movements of the…

Arnulf Rainer, Ohne Titel (Face Farces) [Untitled (Face Farces)], 1969

Arnulf Rainer

Ohne Titel (Face Farces) [Untitled (Face Farces)], 1969

Arnulf Rainer created the first of his Übermalungen (overpaintings) in 1952, covering reproductions of art works with paint; to the point of making them in…

Michio Yoshihara , P-21, 1966

Michio Yoshihara

Michio Yoshihara was the son of Jirō Yoshihara, the art theorist behind the group Gutai Bijutsu Kyōkai (Association for Concrete Art) (1954-1972), which he founded…

Yoshishige Saito , Peinture (Painting), 1963

Yoshishige Saito

Peinture (Painting), 1963

Yoshishige Saito, like his contemporary Jirō Yoshihara, played a pivotal role in developing abstract art in Japan. He began painting as a teen, discovering an…

Pierre Schwerzmann , Sans titre (Untitled), 2010

Pierre Schwerzmann

Sans titre (Untitled), 2010

Since the 1970s, Pierre Schwerzmann has been exploring the condition of painting as a space of perception rather than as a cultural object. At times…

Dieter Roth, Braunvieh (Brown Cow), 1974

Dieter Roth

Braunvieh (Brown Cow), 1974

Dieter Roth made art using whatever came to hand. He enjoyed using materials such as foodstuffs, including chocolate, banana, salami and cheese, that not only…

Mario Merz , 8 che riporta 8 – La natura interloquisce sempre e solo con se stessa? Paesaggio con vento – Fibonacci (8 Which Reports 8 – Does Nature Always Interact Only with Itself? Landscape with Wind – Fibonacci), 1978

Mario Merz

8 che riporta 8 – La natura interloquisce sempre e solo con se stessa? Paesaggio con vento – Fibonacci (8 Which Reports 8 – Does Nature Always Interact Only with Itself? Landscape with Wind – Fibonacci), 1978

In the 1960s and 1970s, the Fibonacci sequence ([0], 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, and so on) was a constant reference for…

Alex Katz , Green Scarf, 1975

Alex Katz

Green Scarf, 1975

Influenced by pop art, Alex Katz produced a body of figurative painting dominated by portraits and landscapes. His subjects are broken down into large sections…

Asger Jorn, Vol de Viol de Fgary de Gambe (Theft of a Viola da Fgary da Gamba), 1969

Asger Jorn

Vol de Viol de Fgary de Gambe (Theft of a Viola da Fgary da Gamba), 1969

The Danish artist Asger Jorn was a member of several poetic-political groups, including CoBrA (1948–51) and the Situationist International (1957–72). Jorn is best known for…

Franz Gertsch, Doris, 1989-1990

Franz Gertsch

Doris, 1989-1990

Franz Gertsch’s earliest paintings can be read in the light of pop art, with compositions based on photographs, figures reduced to silhouettes, a lack of…

Hanne Darboven , K – Zeichnung – 74 - 1/IV/7/4 – 16 à – 30/IV/7/4 – 45, 1974

Hanne Darboven

K – Zeichnung – 74 - 1/IV/7/4 – 16 à – 30/IV/7/4 – 45, 1974

Hanne Darboven, the daughter of a wealthy shopkeeper, grew up surrounded by art. She started playing the piano as a child – many of her…

Jannis Kounellis , Untitled Paint, 1965

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Jannis Kounellis

Untitled Paint, 1965

Jannis Kounellis left his native Greece for Rome in 1956. During his studies, he was influenced by artists such as Lucio Fontana and Alberto Burri…

Karel Appel

Varkensmens (Pig Man) or L’arcade (The Arcade), 1961

Karel Appel reacted to the devastation of the Second World War by creating paintings that grappled with the savagery of his experiences while expressing the…

Richard Artschwager , Splatter Piano II, 1995

Richard Artschwager

Splatter Piano II, 1995

Richard Artschwager’s oeuvre was influenced by his mother, an artist, and his father, a botanist. Though he studied science and then earned a living for…

Cy Twombly, Proem, 1983

Cy Twombly

Cy Twombly’s work draws on a deep well of scholarship. The artist displayed boundless intellectual curiosity from a very young age. In 1952 he travelled…

Robert Motherwell , Elegy Study A, 1977

Robert Motherwell

Elegy Study A, 1977

Robert Motherwell studied at Stanford and Yale universities. His intellectual interests spanned philosophy, literature, art history and psychology. In 1940, on returning to America after…

Louise Nevelson , Mirror Shadow XV, 1985

Louise Nevelson

Mirror Shadow XV, 1985

Louise Nevelson was born Leah Berliawsky to a Jewish family in what was then the Russian Empire, now Ukraine. She emigrated to Maine, in the…

Robert Ireland , Dépendances (Dependencies), 2000

Robert Ireland

Dépendances (Dependencies), 2000

Robert Ireland is an artist and also author of theoretical texts on the questions he explores in his oeuvre. His considerations on the history of…

Julian Charrière , Pacific Fiction – Study for Monument, 2016

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Julian Charrière

Pacific Fiction – Study for Monument, 2016

Faithful to the heritage of conceptual art, fascinated by land art and especially by Robert Smithson, influenced by Olafur Eliasson’s teaching at the Institut für…

Anselm Kiefer , Die Rheintöchter (The Rhinemaidens), 1982 - 2013

Anselm Kiefer

Die Rheintöchter (The Rhinemaidens), 1982 - 2013

This monumental work is part of a set of works on the Rhine, near Anselm Kiefer’s childhood home, as a cultural symbol and a border.…

Kader Attia , Culture, Another Nature Repaired, 2014

Kader Attia

Culture, Another Nature Repaired, 2014

For nearly twenty years, Kader Attia has been interested in the question of repair, understood in both senses, as the action of repairing – an…

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