With ten paintings, a video work and a light/sound installation from the project Re-dit-en-un-in-learning CENTER , De Pont has purchased its first works by the French artist Laure Prouvost. Prouvost…
Dan Graham’s Pavilions, which are a cross between architecture and sculpture, have been an important part of his work since the early eighties. They are usually displayed outdoors. The work in De…
At the start of the 1980s there emerged several young sculptors whose work received international attention under the heading New British Sculpture. Though not a coherent group, they seemed to be…
‘Please note: jma wishes to make it clear that five paintings are not yet finished.’ Jean-Michel Alberola once placed this text at the entrance to a Paris gallery as an introduction to his exhibition.…
Fiona Banner's early works took the form of 'wordscapes' or 'still films' - blow-by-blow accounts written in her own words of feature films including Point Break (1991) and The Desert (1994). These…
In the paintings of Reinoud van Vught, paint and chance are given free rein. Moments at which he pours out the paint and directs the fluid substance only in a loose, intuitive manner are alternated,…
The mushrooms, poppies, grasses and other plants that we encounter in the realistic work of Roxy Paine are made from synthetic materials and painted by hand. These ‘growths’ look entirely natural and…
Light, color and space are the fundamental materials used by Ann Veronica Janssens (Folkestone, 1956). With these intangible phenomena she creates 'sculptures' that make the invisible visible.…
Gerhard Merz has a strictly rationalistic view of art. In his opinion, art is not a form of self-expression, but a systematic process of calculation and verification, of mathematical purity and…
Tacita Dean's fascination with film is partly nurtured by the arrival of new digital techniques. Due to great changes that have taken place in the medium, artists are challenged to analyze anew, as it…