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Mixed-Media

Norman Catherine

Norman Catherine was born in East London in September 1949. In 1969 he held his first solo exhbition consisting of oil paintings on wood, bone, wire and an assortment of found objects. His art has since undergone several metamorphses, from the pristine airbrush paintings of the 70s to the frenzied, ritualistic mixed media works of the [...]

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Melantropics – Janaina Tschape

In a curious botanical milieu peopled with costumed creatures born from myths and folktales, Janaina Tschape makes photographs and video. “Melantropics,” her first American monograph, documents recent works staged in the 79-acre Saint Louis Botanical Garden, a National Historic Landmark and one of the country’s oldest botanical institutions, and in Rio de Janeiro’s John Tyndale-designed [...]

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Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880-1983

  Hanne Darboven’s Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultural History 1880-1983) is an overwhelming and encyclopedic installation consisting of 1,590 works on paper and 19 sculptural objects. The work weaves together cultural, social, and historical references with autobiographical documents, postcards, pinups of film and rock stars, documentary references to the first and second world wars, geometric diagrams for textile [...]

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Robert Raushenberg: Combines


Poetic and lush, Robert Rauschenberg’s Combines present layers of complex and sometimes conflicting information. This approach, first explored by Rauschenberg in the early 1950s, proved prescient and has become increasingly relevant in the current age of cascading information, when even the most ground-breaking artists are referencing and sampling disparate elements to create new forms.

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The Unfolding Man

As a graphic artist and a creative philosopher, Dan Rakgoathe has few equals in southern Africa. Through linocuts, etchings and mixed media work, he expresses a cosmic vision of humankind through evocative images that reveal a sensitive awareness of the spirituality, the mystery and the tragedy of human existence.

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Chris Ofili: The Upper Room

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On Paper: Angel Haro

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Christian Boltanski

The French artist Christian Boltanski (b.1944) has-achieved an international reputation for his installations based on the meticulous display of photographs or ordinary ‘found’ objects – a method Boltanski traces to his

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New Media in Art

Modern art, reflecting and defining new intellectual, scientific and technological developments, has radically extended the conventional media of sculpture and painting. Following innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in Cubism Futurism and
Surrealism-particularly in the work of Duchamp-artists abandoned strict adherence to traditional hierarchies of media and embraced any means, including technological, which best served their purposes.

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Peter Clarke: Fanfare

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