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Yin Xiuzhen

Yin Xiuzhen
Visual artist
Location: Pekin (China)

Yin Xiuzhen was born in 1963 in Beijing where she lives and works. She is a sculpture and installation artist as well as one of the most celebrated female figures in Chinese contemporary art. She incorporates textiles and keepsakes from her childhood in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution in her works to convey the connections between memory and cultural identity.

Individual and the artist.

Yin’s work consistently demonstrates a concern for the relationship between the individual and the artist, with a particular interest for her home city of Beijing. Her signature materials are used clothing, cement, and discarded building materials, which she uses to highlight the ephemerality and fragility of human existence. By utilizing recycled materials, she seeks to personalize objects and allude to the lives of specific individuals, which are often neglected in the drive toward excessive urbanization, rapid modernization and globalization. The artist explains: “In a rapidly changing China, ‘memory’ seems to vanish more quickly than everything else. That’s why preserving memory has become an alternative way of life.”

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28/05/2023 Happen Art Visual Artists

Sean Scully

Sean Scully
Visual artist
Location: New – York

American-Irish artist Sean Scully is best known for his abstract paintings and prints, which seem to synthesize the traditions of classical European painting with the expressive impact of American abstract expressionism through a rigorous yet intuitive approach to artistic practice. Most of his works follow a rhythmic structure of interconnected areas or rectangles of color reminiscent of striped or checkerboard patterning. His canvases are often built up with a heavy impasto and seem to glow with a sense of agency, not unlike the work of the nineteenth century post-impressionists or twentieth century color-field painters. Although his works do not rely on mimetic representation, they often evoke the memories of the artist’s travel and time lived in various countries including Germany and Italy; “in making these paintings I was preoccupied with my memories of Venice, the movement of the water, how it heaves against the brick and stone of the city.”

Website→ https://linktr.ee/seanscullystudio?

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23/04/2023 Happen Art Visual Artists

Tarik Kiswanson

Tarik Kiswanson

Visual artist
Location: Paris (France)

Tarik Kiswanson (1986, Halmstad, Sweden) is a visual artist and poet. His work encompasses sculpture, writing, performance, drawing, sound, and video works. Notions of rootlessness, regeneration, and renewal are central themes in his oeuvre. Always operating at the intersection of different cultural contexts, his various abstract works examine subjects related to memory, heritage, birth, loss and belonging. His oeuvre can be understood as a cosmology of related conceptual families, each exploring variations on themes like refraction, multiplication, disintegration, levitation, hybridity, and polyphony through their own distinct language.

Exhibitions.

Tarik Kiswanson presented his retrospective exhibition Mirrorbody at Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain in 2021. Other recent exhibitions include M HKA-Museum of contemporary art Antwerp (2022), Hallands Konstmuseum (2022), 16th Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art (2022), The Ural Biennial (2019), Performa 19 Biennial (2019), Centre Pompidou (2018), 12th Gwangju Biennial (2018), MUDAM-Museum of Contemporary Art Luxembourg (2017). His upcoming solo exhibitions in 2023 include Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholmand Salzburger Kunstverein in Salzburg. He is nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp and will show a new body of works at Centre Pompidou in October 2023.

Mirrorbody.

His first monograph was published in 2021by Distanz and Carré d’Art-Musée d’art contemporain, on the occasion of his exhibition Mirrorbody. In 2022 a new monograph titled Nest was published by Hallands Konstmuseum and Mousse Publishing and a new collection of poems entitled The Window was published by M HKA-Museum of contemporary art Antwerp and JBE Books.

Kiswanson received his MFA from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2014) and BFA from Central Saint Martins-University of the Arts London (2010). He is represented by the galleries carlier | gebauer and Sfeir-Semler Gallery.

Website→ studio@tarikkiswanson.com

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16/04/2023 Happen Art Visual Artists

Henrique Oliveira

Henrique Oliveira

Visual artist
Location: Sao Paulo (Brasil)

Born in Ourinhos, Brazil in 1973, he received a BFA in painting in 2004 and a masters in visual poetics in 2007 from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Oliveira uses salvaged wood collected from the streets of São Paulo to create massive scale. Site-specific installations with dense layers that twist, curve, bend, and split. Oliveira uses tapumes — which in Portugese can mean fencing, boarding, or enclosure. As a title for many of his large-scale installations. The term makes reference to the temporary wooden construction fences seen throughout the city of São Paulo where Oliveira lives.

Website→ http://www.henriqueoliveira.com/

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26/03/2023 Art Geolocalisation Visual Artists

Daniel Firman

Daniel Firman
Visual artist
Location: France

French-born artist Daniel Firman was born in 1966. He currently works and resides in Paris. His life-sized body cast plaster sculptures are particularly fascinating. In most cases, they are arranged in odd formations. Bbalancing off of each other, crawling backwards or sideways and on various suspensions. Either up in the air or flopping over metal bars. The faces are always hidden, either against the wall, on the floor, covered with clothing or hair. These mannequins are surprisingly quite realistic and Firman puts humor heavily into his work.

Website→ http://danielfirman.com/

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19/03/2023 Happen Art Visual Artists

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset
Visual artist
Location: Berlin (Germany)

Throughout their careers, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (born 1961 and 1969 in Denmark and Norway, respectively) have continually redefined the representation and experience of art. Drawing on institutional criticism of art, political science, performance and architecture. The duo produces sculptures and installations that question the feeling of familiarity with a most characteristic subversive spirit and humor.

Website→ http://www.elmgreen-dragset.com/

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05/03/2023 Art Geolocalisation Visual Artists

Luiz Philippe

Luiz Philippe
Visual artist, Design
Location: Rio de Janeiro. (Brasil)

Carefully-chosen materials, clever use of scale and hearty doses of humour are just some of the ingredients in the works of Brazilian artist, Luiz Philippe Carneiro de Mendonça.

Carneiro was born in 1957 into a family with close links to the art world. His father was the Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Belo Horizonte during the 1960s and Carneiro was able to visit Alberto da Veiga Guignard’s studio in Ouro Preto and also live and study with Frans Krajcberg.

School of Fine Arts.

After graduating in Industrial Design from the School of Fine Arts, Fundação Universidade Mineira de Arte, Carneiro embarked on a career as a designer, first in mi Gerais and later Paris before settling in Rio de Janeiro during 1980s. In parallel, he developed his personal artistic practice, often with a witty use of found materials.

Dada and surrealism.

Carneiro’s early works show a clear link to his childhood growing up in the iron mill owned by his family. Iron, steel and stone are his chosen materials for many works, including giant-sized devices which pay tribute to navigators. Dada and surrealism are evident influences too: an ancient rusty spade is transformed into an elegant neck with the simple addition of a row of pearls while leather handles turn blocks of stone into impossible suitcases. The artist’s design background and love of the absurd come together in Untitled (Chair with Legs Crossed).

Website→ https://linkin.bio/luizphilippecm

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22/01/2023 Art Geolocalisation Unexpected Artists, Visual Artists

Jamie Isenstein

Jamie Isenstein
Viusal artist
Location: New york (US)

Jamie Isenstein (b. 1975, Portland) confuses subject and object in her work, which spans sculpture, drawing, and performance, often turning objects into bodies and bodies into objects. Bluring distinctions between performance and sculpture, often through use of her own body as ready-made object in her “inhabited sculptures,” and thereby questions the notion of “live” in her work Isenstein reflects on the concept of art living beyond its creator and the role of the artist’s hand, quite literally, within a work of art. Most often utilizing the lexicon of comedy and magic as metaphors for larger contexts.

Inhabited sculptures.

Isenstein’s inhabited sculptures are almost an absurd reversal where the artwork has co-opted the artist’s body, creating an anthropomorphized self-deprecated sculpture. While these sculptures rely on her body’s presence, Isenstein offers an equally compelling solution for when she is absent. In doing so, Isenstein’s performances never truly end but instead go into extended intermissions. This way, unlike most performance or endurance art that has a finite beginning and end, her performances become more like sculptures that last indefinitely.

Website→ https://www.jamieisenstein.com/

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14/01/2023 Art Geolocalisation Unexpected Artists, Visual Artists

Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay
Visual artist, sound and performance Art.
Location: US

Christian Marclay (American, b.1955) is a sculptor, video artist, and musician. He was born in California and raised in Geneva, Switzerland, by his American mother and Swiss father. Between 1977 and 1980, Marclay studied at the École Supérieure d’Art Visuel in Geneva; at the same time, he studied sculpture at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. In 1978, he studied as a visiting scholar at the Cooper Union in New York.

Performance Art.

Marclay expresses himself through Performance Art, sound, sculpture, and collage. He combines his love for music with his love for secondhand objects by molding these familiar things into unfamiliar ones. He was one of the first artists to bend and form sounds with a turntable to create new pieces. Previously, artists had linked songs together. Marclay has created unique and unexpected compositions since 1979, when he produced his Theatre of Found Sound.

Punk rock.

He developed an interest in punk rock and Performance Art while studying in Boston. The artist started singing and using mix tapes while performing with the other half of his musical duo, Kurt Hendry. Their lack of a drummer inspired Marclay to produce audio rhythm tracks that were accompanied by video rhythm tracks composed of cartoons or sex films on a loop. Marclay organized a festival in 1980 called Eventworks, where he explored the influence of rock music. He has also collaborated musically with Fred Frith, Zeena Parkins, Shelley Hirsh, Otomo Yoshihide, Arto Lindsay, and Sonic Youth, among others.

Website→ https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/christian-marclay

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08/01/2023 Art Geolocalisation Unexpected Artists, Visual Artists

Lucy McRae and Bart Hess

Lucy McRae and Bart Hess
Visual artist
Location: US/Netherland

Lucy McRae.

Artist Lucy McRae leads a multi disciplinary, art-research studio investigating the impact future technologies have on human evolution. In parallel to her gallery and museum-focused art practice she thrives as a director, a maker, in the writer’s room and in the lab.

Human intimacy.

Boldly staring down the status quo, Lucy pioneers a new story for how future technologies will fundamentally alter human intimacy. Reproduction, spirituality, biology and wellness culture. Shining light on the ethical implications of genetic engineering. Her prophetic aesthetic is flung far from archetypal tropes. Creating nostalgia for a future about to happen. Lucy’s work diversifies the predictive voices we traditionally call ‘science’ and ‘technology’. Through designing hypothetical worlds that use speculation as a tool to provoke an exploration of ideologies and ethics about who we are, and where we are headed.

Bart Hess.

The work of Bart Hess is of the most tactile and intuitive nature. He first delved into instinctive textiles when studying at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where he created A Hunt for High Tech, a collection of materials that mimicked the bestial outer layers of unfamiliar hybrid species, accompanied by an evocative film that brilliantly brought his concepts to life.

Relation to the human body.

Over the past ten years, Hess has developed an impressive roster of work. He has pinned, stretched, slimed and scraped materials in relation to the human body, and collaborated with the likes of Lucy McRae, Nick Knight, Lady Gaga, Iris van Herpen and Walter van Beirendonck. Hess feels that our bodies are increasingly becoming a platform for sensitive and interactive technology. And has constantly exposed the intimate relationship materials have upon our skin. “It felt like a natural instinct for me to start working on the body.

My own skin.

When I create a new design I always place it on my own skin even-though it originally was created as, for example, a flooring material. The fascinating thing about it for me is the combination of a skin and a material. By using a material on the body that is not the body’s own, but making it look like it could possibly be. I create a tension between the body and material.”