Flashback Monday

Untitled, 1997 Enamel on Aluminum 108 × 72 in 274.3 × 182.9 cm Tate Collection

Flashback Monday

In honor of last night’s 89th Academy Awards and Moonlight’s well-deserved victory, here is an homage to Isabelle Huppert who was a Best Actress nominee in the evening. Roni Horn, Portrait of an Image (with Isabelle Huppert), 2005. The installation, featuring 100 photographs of the French artist, is currently on view at Hauser & Wirth as part of the group exhibition ’Serialities’

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Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss built a massive body of work that questions and satirizes mundane elements of the human condition for more than 30 years until Weiss’s passing in 2012. Snowman (1990), one of the many snowman sculptures duo created over the years, is a striking example of their depiction of the irony embedded in everyday situations. 

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Jenny Holzer, is an American neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces. Holzer belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects.

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On Kawara passed away in 2014 in Manhattan where he lived for fifty years and created close to three thousand acrylic paintings chronicling days pass one by one. This painting documents today fifty years ago.

Flashback Monday

Two of the most eminent members of the YBA movement, Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin were in need of presenting their works outside the limitations of typical gallery format in the early ‘90s. Thus, they opened The Shop as a six-month project to promote their then emerging careers and offer a hang-out spot for their friends. In this east London ground floor space that used to host a doctor’s office, the duo sold printed T-shirts that read slogans like “I’m so fucky” or “She’s kebab”, rabbits made out of cigarette packs, and mugs. The Shop closed on Emin’s thirtieth birthday with a special party titled Fuckin’ Fantastic at 30 and Just About Old Enough to do Whatever She Wants.

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The Pictures Generation established unconventional ways of looking at images when the impact of media and consumerist aesthetic vigorously invaded into the collective perspective. Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince, Barbara Kruger, and David Salle were some of the key artists of the movement. Captured in 1991, this picture shows Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, and Sarah Charlesworth, three leading figures who strikingly subverted our association with images, offering alternative narratives on visual media. Charlesworth, who unexpectedly passed away in 2013, was memorialized with the New Museum’s compelling retrospective Doubleworld in 2015.