Edgar Martins
The Accidental Theorist - 2006-2008Shot largely on the same set of beaches in Portugal over a period of two years, the imagery of The Accidental Theorist is a series of moments that have become...
View ArticleEdward Burtynsky
Quarries Rock of Ages # 1,Active Section, E.L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont, 1991Rock of Ages # 2,Granite Quarry, Bebee, Quebec, 1991Vermont Marble Company # 5,Abandoned Marble Quarry, Rochester,...
View ArticleJean Tinguely
Homage to New York - 1960Jean Tinguely was asked in 1960 to produce a work to be performed in the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In collaboration with other...
View ArticleNicolas Moulin
Vider Paris 1998-2001Vider Paris is a series of computer altered images of the streets of Paris. All traces of life are removed from the images vegetal, urban furnishings, pedestrians, cars, etc. All...
View ArticleRichard Long
Walking in Landscapes 1960s-2010s"Nature has always been a subject of art, from the first cave paintings to twentieth-century landscape photography. I wanted to use the landscape as an artist in new...
View ArticleNikolay Polissky
TowersHay Tower 2009, Village of Nikola-Lenivets, Kaluga Region, Russia, 2000The structure resembles Mesopotamian ziggurat, but made from wooden bases on which hay was laid along spiral ramps. Hay...
View ArticleJonathan Hagos
Colonising with Tea - Cartography - 2010Through the Spice trade colonisation and the growth of the British Empire Tea was brought to the British Isles where it quickly became a valuable asset, taken on...
View ArticleConstant Nieuwenhuys
New Babylon 1950-1960s"Some time ago, I was speaking with Peter Cook, the founder of Archigram, about the Situationists and, in particular, Constant Nieuwenhuys—the artist and visionary architect—and...
View ArticleRobert Morris
Mirrored Cubes, 1965Morris’s Minimalist sculptures of the mid-1960s consist of rigorously pared down geometric forms. He typically arranged these into ‘situations’ where ‘one is aware of one’s own body...
View ArticleDoris Salcedo
Sibboleth, Tate Modern, London 2007Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth is the first work to intervene directly in the fabric of the Turbine Hall. Rather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture...
View ArticleDaniel Eatock
Time CirclesOne minute circle painting 2010A circle in spraw paint, painted freehand on the gallery window in a continious clockwise motion, following the second hand of the clock as a time giude.One...
View ArticleJoseph Kosuth
One and three 1965When he arrived in New York in 1965, Joseph Kosuth was a 20-year-old recent graduate from art school, yet he quickly established himself as a founding member of the conceptual art...
View ArticleYves Marchand & Romain Meffre
The ruins of Detroit 2005-2010At the end of the XIXth Century, mankind was about to fulfill an old dream. The idea of a fast and autonomous means of displacement was slowly becoming a reality for...
View ArticleJordan Pouille
Ordos, ville (toujours) fantômeIn Inner Mongolia, in the middle of the desert, Ordos officials decided to build a new city for their “nouveaux riches”: dozens of thousands of citizens who have been...
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Women are heroes 2008-2009For Women Are Heroes, JR traveled to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sudan, Kenya, Brazil, India and Cambodia to seek out women struggling in their everyday lives and, in his words,...
View ArticleTom Ngo
Architectural AbsurdityCommon sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing past models for efficiency and economy, routine thinking preserves the flaws...
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