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…
The passage of time seems to be the central focus throughout the work of the Belgian artist David Claerbout. In his photographs and video works, the passing of time plays a main role. With this…
In 1997 the work Arena by American artist Rita McBride was shown at Witte de With, center for contemporary art, in Rotterdam. Arena consists of semicircular segments of bleachers which, for that…