Born: 1972 in Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands Lives and works in: Amsterdam Latest Exhibition: Weird Science, Gem Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague. Folkert De Jong creates macabre sculptures from polyutherene and styrofoam. His human sized figures are dismembered and reattached in bizarre poses. They often come dressed in theatrical clothing and splashed in [...]
Born: 1982 in Johannesburg, South Africa Lives and works in: Oxford, UK Current exhibition: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (June 13th - August 20th 2017) The South African born artist Carla Busuttil reformulates the conventions of portraiture to create grotesquely comical imagery. By parodying the faces, gestures and clothing of influential figures, she examines the [...]
Born: 1985 in São Paulo, Brazil Lives and works in: Budapest, Hungary Current exhibition: Longlife, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest, open July 5th. Ember’s art deals with duality and paradoxes. A multidisciplinary artist, her works question the nature of representation through a redefinition of classical genres of still life and landscape. Her practice moves across a wide [...]
On Monday at midday, the Palais de Tokyo is already bustling with movement as visitors fill in the vast repurposed 1930s building. Their first encounter in the vast entrance is a giant glass bottle, large enough for a few people to comfortably remove the giant cork and slide inside. In fact, the inside of the [...]
Artvisor contributor Lele examines how the art world is using digital channels as both a means of artist discovery and a method of reaching collectors Nowadays art can be with us at any time and in any place, offering fresh perspectives, raising new questions and adding a spark of curiosity to our daily routines. Through [...]
In the last few decades, contemporary art has evolved in an extraordinary number of ways. Amongst many surprising developments, Performance art has shown that its main means of expression, environments and live actions, are extraordinarily powerful and never cease to fascinate and unsettle viewers. Since their phenomenal rise in the Sixties, thanks to pioneers such as [...]
Cover image: Oliver Ressler, Fly Democracy, 2007. If 2016 has taught us anything, it is to avoid making hasty predictions. The same always applies to the endlessly shifting and unpredictable contemporary art world. Nevertheless, there are already some trends we can look forward to seeing in the following twelve months. 2017 will be a particularly [...]
Artvisor continues its collaboration with prominent educational institutions: our co-founder Piero Tomassoni will give two talks at the Sotheby’s Institute, London on the 12th January for the Business Management in the Art World course. For further info and to register for the course: goo.gl/uRbgJH Contacts: m.williams@sothebysinstitute.com or contact@artvisor.com Photo credit: Sotheby’s Institute
Some old fashion art dealers have recently been shocked by seeing an “Add to basket” button appear on the website of some of their competitors, next to an artwork’s image. What has the world come to!, they must have thought. Despite all our financial interactions with it, buying everything from clothing to cars to stocks, [...]
Artvisor co-founder Piero Tomassoni has been invited by the Centre for Banking and Finance of Regent's University London to hold a seminar on the topic Art as Investment: Facts and Fiction. The seminar will be held on Thursday 3 November at 6pm in room A201 and will be open to the public as well as [...]
Once again, the stately dome of the Grand Palais welcomed an art fair whose constantly growing dynamism relies entirely on its capacity for change and experimentation. Outside of and within the vast exhibition space, the programme ‘Parades for FIAC’ shook the French capital with a series of contemporary art performances, rarely seen by the general [...]
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