Patricia Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, video, sound, installation and digital prints. Her major artworks often reflect issues such as bioethics, biotechnologies and the environment and have gained a huge international recognition after her participation in the 2003 Venice Biennale. Her sculpture often examines hybrids in technology and life; creating cross bred animals, humans and machinery. In October 2003,[…..]
Helnwein is a painter and conceptual artist, concerned primarily with psychological and sociological anxiety, historical issues, and political topics. As a result of this, his work is often considered provocative and controversial. His early work consists mainly of hyper-realistic watercolors, depicting wounded children, as well as performances, often with children, in public spaces. Most of his new work is oil and acrylic on canvas of[…..]
Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere has been working with wool blankets that cover and protect — as the material for her sculptures and installations. Recently she has created a series of horses by covering casts of horse bodies with fabrics. Each figure is malformed and fragmentary, often lacking the fundamental elements of a muzzle, ears or hooves. Bruyckere has been featured with Saatchi Gallery, but[…..]
The photography of English artist Idris Khan often uses architectural structures exposed in layers that fracture a concrete definition of time and space. Khan’s work is exhibited both by the Saatchi Gallery and Victoria-Miro Gallery in London. You can also read a brief article about Khan and his photographic contemporaries at findarticles.com
Loretta Lux is a German photographer who creates her compositions using a combination of photography, painting and digital manipulation. Lux was trained as a painter at the Munich Academy, and in 2005 received the Infinity Award for Art from the International Center of Photography. This May she exhibited with Yossi Milo Gallery in NYC, and continues to be exhibited extensively abroad.
