George Condo: how many people can live inside one face?
Misaligned eyes, mouths crowded with teeth, distorted aristocrats, clowns, Picasso, Old Masters and hip-hop covers. For more than forty years, George Condo has painted impossible faces to describe something profoundly real: a person can be joyful, violent, vulnerable, arrogant and terrified almost at the same time. From the Venice Biennale to collaborations with Kanye West and Travis Scott, his painting has moved between museums and popular culture without choosing between them. Perhaps a face is not meant to show us who we are, but all the people we might be at once.
Yayoi Kusama: disappearing into infinity
Polka dots, nets, mirrors, pumpkins, and rooms without end. Behind one of contemporary art’s most recognisable visual languages, Yayoi Kusama has spent more than seven decades exploring the dissolution of the self. But what happens when art created to make the individual disappear becomes instantly recognisable to millions?
FeaturedDavid Hockney: learning to see the world all over again
From Californian swimming pools to photographic collages, portraits and iPad drawings, David Hockney moved through almost seven decades of art without ever stopping his experimentation. Behind every new tool, however, remained the same question: how can we see what is in front of us more clearly?
FeaturedDamien Hirst: the art that refused to be ignored
A shark suspended in formaldehyde, divided animals, pills, butterflies, and millions of pounds moving directly from the studio to the auction house. Damien Hirst turned death, beauty, the market, and spectacle into parts of the same language. But how much of his importance lies in the artworks, and how much in the system he built around them?