Life and work are strongly connected for Wolfgang Laib. In the rural surroundings of southern Germany, he produces work that adopts a distinct stance in the world of contemporary art, partly due to…
Rineke Dijkstra prefers to work in series, which allow the differences and similarities among the portrait subjects and their cultural backgrounds to emerge in a subtle manner. The time-consuming…
Serra is best known for his enormous steel sculptures. Such works are made of massive slabs of steel that can have a somewhat intimidating presence. Yet it is the very combination of actual…
Studio Visit consists of images taken in the studio of a Moroccan artist who is known locally as 'the artist who doesn't want to sell any work'. His work is difficult to recognize as work. It is made…
With natural materials uncommon to art, such as beeswax, milk, pollen and rice, Wolfgang Laib produces work that has an almost sacred aura. His oeuvre is cyclical in character: each type of work is…
The artistic quest of Patrick and Anne Poirier began nearly fifty years ago in Rome. During an artist-in-residence period at Villa Medici, the French Academy there, they became fascinated with the…
De Pont presents the first, major Gesamtkunstwerk of visual artist Marc Mulders (1958) and designer/artist Claudy Jongstra (1963). Marc Mulders has been known for years for his expressionist oil…
Catherine’s Room is a private view into the room of a solitary woman who goes about a series of daily rituals from morning until night. The woman’s actions are simple and purposeful, and appear…
In many presentations of Michel François the relationship between the work and the space, between the sculpture and the architecture, plays an emphatic role. The link that he establishes between the…
John Riddy’s photos are distinguished by a combination of poetic delicacy and formal precision which has been evident since his earliest pictures made in London in the late 1980s. Working consistently…