Chiara Dynys
Chiara Dynys, is born in Mantua and works in Milan. Ever since she started, in the early 1990s, her work has followed two main currents, both motivated by a single underlying outlook with regards to reality: to identify in the world as well as in every form, the presence and the meaning of an anomaly, […]
Nicola De Maria
Nicola De Maria is a contemporary Italian artist known for his playful abstractions painted in bright primary colors. While at the beginning of his career, he was interested in experimental photography, he then turned his attention to drawing and painting. In the 1970s, De Maria becomes one of the main exponents of the Transavanguardia group […]
Maurizio Donzelli
Born in Brescia in 1958, he lives and works in Brescia. An intellectual artist whose interests range from philosophy to anthropology, Maurizio Donzelli has pursued an extensive line of research that focuses on the issue of the image as a potential locus of concentration, migration and alteration of our visual memory. His works develop in […]
Piero Dorazio
Piero Dorazio was born in Rome in June 1927. After graduating from a liceo classico (secondary school with an emphasis on the Humanities), he embarked on the study of architecture. From 1942-43, after frequenting painter Aldo Bandinelli’s studio, he turned to art and started painting still-lifes and landscapes. At the age of twenty, in 1947, along […]
Jorge Eielson
Jorge Eduardo Eielson was born in Lima in 1924. He left his native land at the age of 24 thanks to a scholarship in literature, and spent the rest of his life in Europe establishing connection with come of the most important personalities of Contemporary Art like Fontana, Burri, Dorazio, Hains, Rotella, Capogrossi, Beuys, Buren, […]
Lucio Fontana
Lucio Fontana was born in 1899 in Rosario de Santa Fé, Argentina and raised in Milan from 1905 to 1922, he then moved back to Argentina, where he worked as a sculptor in his father’s studio for several years before opening his own. In 1926, he participated in the first exhibition of Nexus, a group […]
Jan Henderikse
Jan Henderikse was born in 1937 in Delft, the Netherlands. In 1959 Henderikse moved to Cologne, and shortly thereafter to Dusseldorf. While in Dusseldorf, one of the epicentres of the post-war European avant-garde, Henderikse made contact with the circle of international ZERO artists and engaged in a close friendship with German Zero-artist Günther Uecker. […]
Walter Leblanc
Walter Leblanc was born in Antwerp on 26 December 1932. From 1949 to 1954, he studied at the Academy, under Antoon Marstboom among others, whose education he appreciated enor-mously, and under René De Coninck for a printmaking course. Concurrently with his studies he took evening classes at the School of Decorative Arts under the direction […]
Angela Lyn
Angela Lyn was born in Windsor, England in 1955 to a Chinese father and an English mother. In 1968 she emigrated with her family to the USA. In 1972 she travelled to Taiwan to explore her Asian heritage, pursuing studies in Chinese language and painting at Fu-Jen University in Taipei. Later, returning to England, […]
Heinz Mack
The German sculptor and painter, Heinz Mack, was born in 1931 in Lollar and attended the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorffrom 1950 to 1953; furthermore, he studied philosophy at the University of Cologne until 1956, graduating in both programs with state exams. In 1957, Heinz Mack founded the ZERO group in Düsseldorf, Germany together with Otto […]
