For over a decade, American sculptor Tara Donovan has transformed huge volumes of everyday items into stunning works of phenomenal impact. Layered, piled, or clustered with an almost viral repetition, these products assume forms that both evoke natural systems and seem to defy the laws of nature.
Innuendo is key to the burgeoning practice of Johannesburg-based artist Nicholas Hlobo, although there is also something markedly clear, even forceful, about an encounter with any one of his many phallic sculptures.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument and as a conceptual visual artist working with performance art, light- and sound installations and photography.
Adrian Ghenie grew up in Romania under the communist dictatorship, as a witness who looked on from the sidelines while ideologies burst apart. Heavy stuff.
English photographer and video artist. Gillian Wearing has described her working method as ‘editing life’. By using photography and video to record the confessions of ordinary people, her work explores the disparities between public and private life, between individual and collective experience.
Since the nineties, artist Monica Bonvicini has confronted audiences with drawings, installations, videos, and photographs that explore the construction of sexual identity through architecture.
Origin is the latest development in UVA’s exploration of large-scale responsive LED sculpture. As part of The Creators Project, UVA have created Origin, a responsive installation meant to explore our society’s acceptance of a technocratic life form.
Damien Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is reportedly Britain’s richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010.
