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Conceptual Art

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
Drago glass treasury container object — volume IX no. 13
Located in Helsinki, FI
glass treasury, volume IX no. 13, smoky gray with a wooden lid Drago is a sculptural glassware that explores the concept of a treasury — the power of a container object to reflect ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Glass, Blown Glass, Wood

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Ride of Happy People
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Sketch
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - War and Peace
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical scul...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Dream
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - War is Declared
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical scul...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Mutants
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Aquarium 28
Located in East Patchogue, NY
Come Visit us at Volta NYC ( 17- 21 May ) to see it Live ! Size : 27.5 x 78 in. Limited Edition of 8. Print only (Archival pigment print, 1” white border all around added). For fac...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment

Wave Theory, Science Art Collection by Anastasia Vasilyeva
Located in Sempach, LU
Wave Theory is a painting from the collection "Wave Theory", was participated in the Swiss Art Expo 2021 in Zurich. It is a part of the science art collect...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Acrylic

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Family Coat of Arms
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculpture and teachings from Nouveaux Réa...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Bolero
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical sculp...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - La Joie est Là !
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional & classical sculpture & teachings from Nouveaux Réalistes. Th...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Church & Steeple - Dog and Cat Large Format Polaroid
Located in Miami, FL
William Wegman's highly conceptual Dog - Cat interaction is depicted in this large-format Polaroid Polacolor print that features a double portrait - a Dog and a Cat - together but separate in their own defined space. Signed, titled, and dated to lower right ‘Church & Steeple William Wegman 93’. This work is unique. provenance: Wright Chicago, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Acquired from the previous in 1993 by the original owner Thence by descent Best viewed with a top gallery light...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Polaroid

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - Smoothness of Life
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical scul...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

French Contemporary Sculpture by Beatrice De Domenico - The Beautiful Blue
Located in Paris, IDF
Beatrice de Domenico is a French sculptor born in 1956 who lives & works in Nice, France. She works between traditional sculpture, classical scul...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Water Music Series #5023 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon. Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Drawing 13, Series Drawing - Large Format, Charcoal On Paper Panting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The artwork is unframed and will be shipped rolled in a tube Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. ...
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Charcoal, Paper

Large Oil and Mixed Media Abstract Painting "Turquoise Tunnel"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Mark Hilltout has always been drawn to the random, the discarded and the broken. He is attracted to the broken edge, not the perfectly straight line. For...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Varnish, House Paint, Oil, Board

Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Classense Ravenna, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso The sunlit entrance to the Sala delle scienze e delle arti (Hall of sciences and arts) with the bust of Teresa Gamba (Lord Byron’s lover) in background. The vista is framed by a rhythmic repetition of gleaming wooden doorways and archways, housing shelves of antique tomes. Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda, C Print

The Magic Sign - Lithograph by Giuliano Sturli - 1976
Located in Roma, IT
The magic sign is a lithograph realized by Giuliano Sturli in 1976 Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin. Numbered of the lower left. Edition of 50. Original title: Il seg...
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lithograph

Le concert des chapeaux pointus, 81x100cm, Acrylic on canvas
Located in Barbizon, FR
Between reality and imagination, "Le concert des chapeaux pointus" illustrates 6 characters in levitation on a deep blue background. A color anchored in the memory of the artist sinc...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Card Index, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Card Index Bologna, Italy 2022 A classic card index with red and white labels, below a classical religious fresco and carved ceiling. signed and numbered ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

TWO SPACES - Expressive Charcoal On Paper Painting, Black White Drawing
Located in Salzburg, AT
The work is on 1 paper. Krzysztof Gliszczyński is Professor for painting on Academy of fine arts Gdansk. The artwork is unframed and will be...
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Slanted Blue Ground, Four Red Walls (Maroon to Poppy)
Located in Lawrence, NY
Enamel on board Note the work is tapezoidal, so the measurements are 32 (29) x 72 Shepherd is known for her richly colored paintings built with layers of monochromatic enamel and especially for her exploration of perspectival space. The various reflective surfaces establish a spatial discourse across the panel, to the viewer and within the space housing the painting. Being situationally reactive to light and movement, the paintings take on sculptural characteristics in their constant change. Shepherd's unique union of drawing and painting, her adherence to the laws of linear perspective, and the subdued shifts in tone and luminosity that create hypothetical, architectural spaces into which viewers are pulled have been signature ingredients in an oeuvre that never feels prosaic or formulaic. She is very much a "process" painter and the getting to "here" from "there" warrants its own discussion. Her work is featured in numerous museum collections, including The Phillips Collection...
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Enamel

The Red Thistle #003, Documentary and color Photography, Photojournalist
Located in Milano, IT
An original print by Italian documentary photographer Davide Monteleone. The work is a Giclee Print on Photo Rag Baryta 308 g from "The red Thistle" ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Giclée

THE NAME OF THE FLOWER: PANSY “JOKER VIOLA-GOLD”
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Contemporary Subject: Nature Medium: Ink, Sandblasted Glass, Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions: 20" x 20" Dimensions w/Frame: 21" x 21" x 2" KEN APTEKAR (b.19...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Glass, Ink

Biblioteca Ortopedica, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Ortopedica Bologna, Italy 2022 A view of the main table and globe of the main scientific library in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, named for Italian King Umberto I. The vista is framed between echoing frescoed arched ceilings, cases of scientific volumes, and geometric floor. These sixteenth-century rooms, where the books of the Olivetani Monks were kept, are located in the ancient complex of San Michele in Bosco. They were transformed into an orthopaedic hospital at the end of the nineteenth century. The library holds an important scientific collection...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Biblioteca Gambalunga I, Rimini, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Gambalunga I Rimini, Italy 2022 In this photograph, a series of echoing doors serve as a portal into the interior of the Biblioteca Gambalunga in Rimini, Italy. One of ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda, C Print

Silver Lake Operations #15, Digital Chromogenic Color Print
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Edward Burtynsky is one of Canada’s most internationally acclaimed photographers. He is well-known for his captivating, and curiously beautiful, large-scale photographs documenting ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Digital, C Print

Biblioteca Gambalunga I, Rimini, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Gambalunga I Rimini, Italy 2022 In this photograph, a series of echoing doors serve as a portal into the interior of the Biblioteca Gambalunga in Rimini, Italy. One of ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Compass Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin, Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin Compass, 1988 Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker 12.5 h × 12.5w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 cm) Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others. Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko. Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

"Gore Gold" Colored Pencil on Paper, curves, organic, neutral, minimal line work
Located in Hamburg, HH
One in a series of six drawings by Amanda Andersen created during an artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2012. During this residency the artist explored ideas of flight while researching the invention and design of the hot air balloon. These drawings were the beginning of a larger group of work reflecting on the duality of the balloon as a symbol for romantic flight as well as a powerful tool of displacement. Here the artist was especially interested in the parts that make up a balloon canopy, the pieces of the pattern are called gores, similar in shape to a natural tree leaf. Specifically a gore is one panel–a segment of a hot air balloon envelope–six of these are sewn together to create a full balloon canopy, therefore six drawings are represented in this series. Without the conceptual background of the piece, it takes on the appearance of a simple organic shape. Minimal repeating pencil lines on neutral colored grey paper fill the gore...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper, Color Pencil

Cosmic Spheres, Biblioteca Communale, Imola, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cosmic Spheres, Biblioteca Comunale Imola, Italy 2022 In this photograph, light strikes an an elegant green and wood armillary sphere on a black and gold lathe mount, before a seri...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Conceptual Collage, "In Search Of Enlightenment 1"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original conceptual paper collage by Southern California artist, May-Ling Martinez. It is framed as pictured. Its dimensions are 20"x27.5". A certificate of a...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper

Self Portrait #6 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#6, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta II" Series Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle paper Image size: 40 in. H x 25.7 in. W Edition of 10 + 1AP Unframed Additional si...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Conceptual Collage, "In Search Of Enlightenment 5"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original conceptual paper collage by Southern California artist, May-Ling Martinez. It is framed as pictured. Its dimensions are 20"x27.5". A certificate of a...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Paper

Biblioteca Ortopedica, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Ortopedica Bologna, Italy 2022 A view of the main table and globe of the main scientific library in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, named for Italian King Umberto I. The vista is framed between echoing frescoed arched ceilings, cases of scientific volumes, and geometric floor. These sixteenth-century rooms, where the books of the Olivetani Monks were kept, are located in the ancient complex of San Michele in Bosco. They were transformed into an orthopaedic hospital at the end of the nineteenth century. The library holds an important scientific collection...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Lambda, C Print

Biblioteca Ortopedica, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Ortopedica Bologna, Italy 2022 A view of the main table and globe of the main scientific library in the Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, named for Italian King Umberto I. The vista is framed between echoing frescoed arched ceilings, cases of scientific volumes, and geometric floor. These sixteenth-century rooms, where the books of the Olivetani Monks were kept, are located in the ancient complex of San Michele in Bosco. They were transformed into an orthopaedic hospital at the end of the nineteenth century. The library holds an important scientific collection...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Limpopo, 2021
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Style: Contemporary, Modern, Conceptual Small study for the series “Rare Earth"
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Russian Samizdat Art Conceptual Photo Sculpture Assemblage Gerlovin & Gerlovina
Located in Surfside, FL
Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin Clock, 1987-94 Aluminum sculpture, mixed media and c-print photograph construction, c-print, felt tip marker 13 h × 13 w × 4 d in (30 × 30 × 6 cm) Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin were founding members of the underground conceptual movement Samizdat in the Soviet Union, described in their book Russian Samizdat Art. Based on a play of paradoxes, their work is rich with philosophic and mythological implications, reflected in their writing as well. Their book Concepts was published in Russia in 2012. The work by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin is emphatically contemporary. The artist couple were part of the Moscow Conceptualists, their performance Costumes, from 1977, deepened their ongoing work with linguistic semiotic systems and their own bodies. Considering the context in which Gerlovina and Gerlovin made their work—that of political restrictions on public life, of unfreedom, and censorship—their collaborative togetherness must also be read as a space of possibility for political community and resistance. Rimma Gerlovina’s hair is featured prominently in the art of the Gerlovins as a constructing element of the body. Used for the linear drawings her braids transmit transpersonal waves reminiscent of an aura of live filaments. Long loose hairs function as threads of life; streaming in abundance, they allude to Aphrodisiac vitality and Samsonian strength. On the other hand, they are the haircloth worn during mourning and penitence. In New York they continued to make sculptural objects, and their photographic projects grew into an extended series called Photoglyphs. In their photographs, they use their own faces to explore the nature of thought and what lies beyond it. Since coming to the United States in 1980, they had many exhibitions in galleries and museums including the Art Institute of Chicago. The New Orleans Museum of Art launched a retrospective of their photography, which traveled to fifteen cities. Group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., Bonn Kunsthalle, Germany, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and others. Samizdat or “self-published” began in the Soviet Union, and Samizdat art consists mainly of books and magazines published and distributed by the artists who made them. Samizdat art has sources in the innovative books and magazines turned out by the early 20th century Russian avant-garde—artists and writers like Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Mayakovsky, El Lissitzky, and Alexander Rodchenko. Artists as varied as Alexander Archipenko, Leon Bakst, Marc Chagall, Naum Gabo, Alexandra Exter...
Category

1980s Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Tondo Stars
Located in London, GB
Signed and numbered 6 colours each Paper: Somerset Satin, White, 300 grams Printers: Eisaku Sakane, assisted by Keigo Takahashhi & Chie Shimizu, Watanbe Studio, New York Completed 8th November 2002 Published by Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London, and Parasol Press...
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Linocut

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Engraving

Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boschereccia Palazzo Hercolani, Bologna, Italy 2022 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on labe...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Mujer en sofá
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

1970s Conceptual Art

Materials

Engraving

Vintage Ektacolor Color Photograph Memory Berlin Germany Photo Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
Shimon Attie (b. 1957) Joachimstrasse, Ecke, Auguststrasse, Berlin, 1994 Edition 3/3 Dye coupler print on Kodak Ektacolor paper 27 x 34 inches (68.6 x 86.4 cm) (image) 34 x 40 inches (sheet) Presents well. Framed Dimensions 36.25 X 42.5 From series The Writing on the Wall. Attie projected found pre-war images of Jewish street-life in Berlin onto the same or nearby addresses in 1992/1993. Through this intervention, fragments of the past were introduced into the visual field of the present; long destroyed Jewish community life were visually simulated, momentarily recreated. The Writing on the Wall project was realized in Berlin’s former Jewish quarter, the Scheunenviertel, located in the Eastern part of the city, close to the Alexanderplatz. At the heart of Berlin, the Scheunenviertel was a center for eastern European Jewish immigrants from the turn of the century. The few historical photographs which remained after the Holocaust reflect the world of the Jewish working class rather than that of the more affluent and assimilated German Jews who lived mostly in the western part of the city.The juxtaposition between the projected images and the empty rooms reminds viewers of the fragility of memory, and how sites are activated/changed by presence and absence. Shimon Attie (born Los Angeles in 1957) is an American visual artist. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, The Rome Prize in 2001 and a Visual Artist Fellowship from Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study in 2007. His work spans a variety of media, including photography, site-specific installation, multiple channel immersive video installation, performance, and new media. Much of Attie's practice explores how a wide range of contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place, and identity. Much, though not all, of Attie's work in the 90s dealt with the history of the second world war. He first garnered significant international attention by slide projecting images of past Jewish life onto contemporary locations in Berlin. More recent projects have involved using a range of media to engage local communities to find new ways of representing their history, memory and potential futures. Attie's artworks and interventions are site-specific and immersive in nature, and tend to engage subject matter that is both social, political and psychological. In 2013, Five monographs have been published on Attie's work, which has also been the subject of a number of films, which have aired on PBS, BBC, and ARD. Since receiving his MFA Degree in 1991, Attie has realized approximately 25 major projects in ten countries around the world. Most recently, in 2013-14, Shimon Attie was awarded the Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award in Art. Judaica subject matter. He was born in 1957 and received an MFA in 1991. In 1991 he moved to Germany from his previous home in Northern California, and began to make work initially about Jewish identity and the history of the second world war. His work later evolved to engage broader issues of memory, place and identity more generally. Shimon Attie moved to New York City in 1997. Shimon Attie's work has been extensively reviewed by a wide variety of publications, including features and/or reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, Art Forum, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, and many others. Yasaman Alipour, writing in "The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture", on Shimon Attie's solo exhibition "Facts on the Ground" at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City: Attie achieves something profound: he presents a unique opportunity to contemplate Israel/Palestine without the distraction that is simultaneously a manifestation of the limitations of visual of written language and the possibilities of their alliance." Norman Kleeblatt, writing in a cover story for "Art in America" "Like many other artists in the wake of Marcel Broodthaers...
Category

1990s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color

Card Index, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Card Index Bologna, Italy 2022 A classic card index with red and white labels, below a classical religious fresco and carved ceiling. signed and numbered ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Cosmic Spheres, Biblioteca Communale, Imola, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cosmic Spheres, Biblioteca Comunale Imola, Italy 2022 In this photograph, light strikes an an elegant green and wood armillary sphere on a black and gold lathe mount, before a seri...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

El paseo de la niña
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

Early 2000s Conceptual Art

Materials

Color

Biblioteca Archiginnasio I
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Archiginnasio Bologna, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Card Index, Bologna, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Card Index Bologna, Italy 2022 A classic card index with red and white labels, below a classical religious fresco and carved ceiling. signed and numbered ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Untitled, Mixed Media Oil Painting Figures Contemporary Female Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
This Contemporary female artist overlays stenciled figures using vibrant colors. Some of the figures are rendered with detail while others are left in abstraction. Mil Lubroth (1926-2004) was an American born artist who until her passing lived and worked in Madrid, Spain. Her colorful, semi-abstract paintings, which often combined Jewish, Arab and Christian symbolism, were described as “light and music, subtlety and suggestion, full of energy and joy” by Catherine Coleman, curator at the Reina Sofia Museum. Her annual open studio, held every November, was an important celebration of the Spanish art scene. A Fulbright scholar born Millie Schleifer, Mil Lubroth was influenced by the whimsical work of Paul Klee as well as by Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly. She lived in Paris and then moved with her husband to Madrid where she raised her four children. The richly layered culture of Spain inspired her to weave together Jewish, Islamic and Western influences in her decorative and often mysterious work. She was the first North American Woman to exhibit at Madrid’s Cultural Center and her work also showed in Seville, Granada, Barcelona and New York. Education La Guardia High School of Art and Music, New York B.A., Southern Cal M.A. Kansas State Advanced Studies under Willem De Kooning and Josef Albers at Black Mountain College, North Carolina Collections Smithsonian, UNESCO New York. The White House, Washington DC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid y Castellón. Museo of Skopje. Macedonia. Yugoslavia. Johnson & Johnson, Madrid. Baker and McKenzie. Banco de España. Madrid. Radio RVE, Sydney, Australia. Comisión del Deporte en Bellas Artes. Madrid. Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Corporate Art Collection Juffali Brothers, Jedda, Arabia Saudí Arab banking Corporation, New York. Hebrew Union College...
Category

20th Century Conceptual Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Abysmal, 2021 Contemporary digital print
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Style: Contemporary, Modern, Conceptual Small study for the series “Rare Earth"
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Metal

Embrace
Located in East Hampton, NY
Two Men in an Embrace Printed to order Gay content Inquire about various sizing Comes unframed. About the Artist: Short Biography in a Nutshell: A fun journey My first foray into...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Marucelliana Florence, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Color Theory 2022 Contemporary collage
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Style: Contemporary, Modern, Conceptual The artwork is an assembly of art fundamental theories in juxtaposition with patterns, shapes and archival digital prints illustrating phenome...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

Materials

Fabric, Plywood, Paint, Paper, Digital

Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Marucelliana Florence, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso ...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Biblioteca Malatestiana, Cesena
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Malatestiana Cesena, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso Reinhard Görner records cultural and industrial heritage through his series of photographs depicting contemporary and historical architecture, landscapes, parks, and plants. Best known for his photographs of libraries and reading rooms from around the world—in works such as George Peabody Library II, Baltimore (2017) and Riggs Library I, Washington DC (2017)—Görner captures the atmosphere of absolute silence and concentration the spaces embody while also revealing their almost cathedral-like sense of grandeur. Görner’s images have a vivid sense of depth and dimension that convey an impression of intimacy, as in Isaac Newton, Cambridge (2017), or monumentality via his precise and skilful use of framing and perspective. This stunning photograph captures a vista through the storied volumes, intricately painted walls, and doorways inside the Biblioteca comunale dell'Archiginnasio (Archiginnasio Municipal Library). The Biblioteca Archiginnasio is a public library located inside the Palace of the Archiginnasio in Bologna, Italy. The largest library in Emilia-Romagna, it boasts some 850,000 volumes and pamphlets, 2,500 incunabula, 15,000 16th century editions, 8,500 manuscripts and then letters, collections of autographs, prints and drawings, and 250 archives. The library has also a section of 7,500 magazines. In 1838 a section of the building was destined to preserve the books collected from Napoleon's closure of the religious orders. Fabled patrons include the cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, Giovanni Gozzadini, Marco Minghetti, Giovanni Pascoli, Jacob Moleschott, Luigi Serra, Laura Bassi, Aurelio Saffi, Riccardo Bacchelli, Pelagio Palagi...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Boschereccia Palazzo, Hercolani, Bologna
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Boschereccia Palazzo Hercolani, Bologna, Italy 2022 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on labe...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

C Print, Lambda

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