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Observations and reflections on contemporary art: exhibitions, works, and contemporary artists today
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Born in Paris in 1982 and now based in New York, Julie Curtiss has become one of the most distinctive painters of her generation.
Jun 22
In this chapter, we explore artists whose work is deeply concerned with memory, disappearance, erosion, and the traces left behind by history.
Jun 16
Martynas Auž is one of the most compelling Lithuanian artists of his generation, a creator who has moved seamlessly between urban art, contemporary…
Jun 9
In this chapter, we enter a different territory, one where painting becomes a vehicle for myth, fiction, symbolism, and psychological projection.
Jun 1
Nina Hartmann belongs to a generation of artists shaped by the internet, information overload, and a deep mistrust of traditional systems of authority.
May 26
These painters use abstraction not as escape, but as a way of thinking through sensation, time, and perception itself.
May 19
Born in Sion, Switzerland, in 1989, Louisa Gagliardi belongs to a generation of artists who grew up simultaneously between the physical and the digital…
May 12
These painters are concerned with attention, proximity, and the emotional charge of ordinary life. Rather than chasing spectacle, they return to…
May 5
Colleen Barry is an American artist and illustrator whose work moves fluidly between painting, editorial illustration, and contemporary visual culture.
Apr 28
Screens, archives, feeds, algorithmic visibility—images are no longer singular objects but flows. In this context, painting does not disappear; it…
Apr 21
Ana Benaroya (born in 1986 in New Jersey) is an American artist whose work exists at the intersection of contemporary painting, visual culture, and a…
Apr 16
In this chapter, painting moves closer to the body. Not as representation alone, but as gesture, force, repetition, and physical presence.
Apr 8
Louis Fratino (Maryland, 1993) is one of the most compelling painters of his generation working within contemporary figuration.
Mar 31
In this fifth chapter, painting turns toward history, archives, and visual memory.
Mar 25