Sam Francis

Untitled, 1984

106.7 X 73 inch

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Xingjian Gao

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A renown screen writer and critic of his native China and a French citizen today, Xingjian Gao has enjoyed a unique career highlighted by a Nobel Prize award for literature. Xingjian Gao showed promise in art at an early age, but went to the Beijing Foreign Studies University for college.
 
« When fashion sweeps in, artists follow suit. I think this is the malady of contemporary art. »
Xingjian Gao
He graduated from the French department there, but it would be many years before he started to gain recognition for his writing. He first rose to fame as screen writer and playwright for the Beijing People's Art Theatre in 1981. His style was one of absurdist drama, something new to Chinese culture at the time. His later works at the theater, such as The Primitive (1985) and The Other Shore (1986), were critical of Chinese's Communist government policies. One of his biggest works, the political drama Fugitives (1989) which was published in France, made reference to student protests at Tiananmen Square that year. The Chinese government has banned all of his works from the country since then. Since then, his works tend to be highly regarded in Europe and in Western civilization, but Read More

Xingjian Gao

S/T, 2008

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What is activist art?

What is activist art?

Activist art is art created to address social and political issues. It is a kind of performance art because it is presented in public, working closely with the community which will create it. One example could be creating and posting social protest fliers in exhibition.

Roberto MATTA | Demoiselles | Etching and Aquatint available for sale on composition gallery

Roberto Matta

Demoiselles

Limited Edition Print

Etching And Aquatint

EUR 850

Sol LEWITT | Two Asymmetrical Pyramids and Their Mirror Images (Counterpoint) | Silkscreen  available for sale on composition gallery

Sol LeWitt

Two Asymmetrical Pyramids And Their Mirror Images (Counterpoint), 1986

Limited Edition Print

Silkscreen

EUR 1,900

Piero DORAZIO | Vortice | Mosaic  available for sale on composition gallery

Piero Dorazio

Vortice, 1989

Sculpture / Object

Mosaic

EUR 2,000

Dirk BRAECKMAN | Self-portrait | Photograph available for sale on composition gallery

Dirk Braeckman

Self-portrait, 1989

Photography

Photograph

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