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TOP 200 ARTISTS OF THE 20TH CENTURY TO NOW
TIMES READERS AND SAATCHI ONLINE VISITORS VOTE FOR THEIR FAVOURITE ARTISTS
AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:
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| - | Marcel Duchamp |
| - | Henri Matisse |
| - | Jackson Pollock |
| - | Andy Warhol |
| - | Willem De Kooning |
| - | Piet Mondrian |
| - | Paul Gauguin |
| - | Francis Bacon |
| - | Robert Rauschenberg |
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| - | Frida Kahlo |
| - | Martin Kippenberger |
| - | Paul Klee |
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| - | Alberto Giacometti |
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| - | Auguste Rodin |
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| - | Richard Serra |
| - | Rene Magritte |
| - | David Hockney |
| - | Philip Guston |
| - | Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| - | Pierre Bonnard |
| - | Jean-Michel Basquiat |
| - | Max Ernst |
| - | Diane Arbus |
| - | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| - | Cy Twombly |
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| - | Giorgio De Chirico |
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| - | Edvard Munch |
| - | Pierre Auguste Renoir |
| - | Man Ray |
| - | Henry Moore |
| - | Cindy Sherman |
| - | Jeff Koons |
| - | Tracey Emin |
| - | Damien Hirst |
| - | Yves Klein |
| - | Henri Rousseau |
| - | Chaim Soutine |
| - | Arshile Gorky |
| - | Amedeo Modigliani |
| - | Umberto Boccioni |
| - | Jean Dubuffet |
| - | Eva Hesse |
| - | Edouard Vuillard |
| - | Carl Andre |
| - | Juan Gris |
| - | Lucio Fontana |
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| - | Frank Stella |
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| - | Dan Flavin |
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| - | George Grosz |
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| - | Sigmar Polke |
| - | Brice Marden |
| - | Maurizio Cattelan |
| - | Sol LeWitt |
| - | Chuck Close |
| - | Edward Weston |
| - | Joseph Cornell |
| - | Karel Appel |
| - | Bridget Riley |
| - | Alexander Archipenko |
| - | Anthony Caro |
| - | Richard Hamilton |
| - | Clyfford Still |
| - | Luc Tuymans |
| - | Claes Oldenburg |
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| Laia
Cabrera
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Laia Cabrera is a filmmaker, composer, writer and multimedia artist born in Spain, Lleida in 1967. Her interdisciplinary education has leaded her to work in many areas from film to music compositions, theatre productions, video, television and research projects. Her work as a filmmaker includes Invisible (16mm), Under Influence (16mm), Lines (16mm) and Dropped (mix-media) among others. She has done camera work for films like Mi Visa de Modelo, Faking It, Getting There, It is the Cause, The One Who Thought Wanted to Leave but Never Left and her own films. As a writer, she has published her books Caducidad del Sentido and Arpegio del Desamor, as well as various articles in magazines and the press. She has written two plays produced and staged in Barcelona: L’Estança and De la Tierra a las Estrellas. She has also directed two research projects in film and theory: Any Lumiere (granted by the University of Barcelona) and Neutral Identities (winner of the grants KrTU, Culture Department of the Catalan Government). As a composer she has written music for theatre plays: El Retorn d’Ulises (Sala Artenbrut, Barcelona), Borderline (Loewe Theater, NY), Pelleas and Melisande (French Institute NY), and Obsessions (Recipient of the John Golden Award.). She has also composed music for several films: Trapped, Julia Vs. Julia, Under Influence and Invisible, in addition to documentaries, videos and performance events. She is being working as an editor and video artist for Arts International, New Stage Theatre Company, World Music of Nana, Liquid Body Media, Movement and Dance and for Cinema Tropical. Her art work as video artist, playwright and poet have been covered in newspapers in Spain, the USA and South America.
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| About the Artist |
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Departing point:
Digital technology and telecommunications have diminished territorial borders with video works and video projection in ample evidence, much of the works exist in the de-territorialized space of the black box. A sense of being nowhere and yet everywhere can also be seen spilling into many real-world artworks, while a hybrid practice of art-making that embraces both the virtual and the physical increasingly informs these works’ sense of place, aesthetics, and processes.
All my latest works embodies and exemplifies these hybrid art-making practices and our changing sense of space/nonspace.
Description of the piece: “Singularity” by Laia Cabrera that opened the 2006 International Video and Animation Festival in Spain "Animac".
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| SINGULARITY (March 2006)
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(Duration: 00:07:11)
The piece is a 3 canvas video installation using the imagery and symbolism of several years of work: patters, computing, landscapes of people’s feet, imitation, prediction and emotion,
A performer will improvise silhouettes on the screens while the video artists will play in real time with the visual imaginary. Both levels will work in singularity, looking for that time/moment/space where they meet and merge to become one. The soundtrack has original music and a voice over of two women contrasting feeling and thoughts in order to understand their sense of strangeness with life.
The piece is about the transitory nature of life and our intent to grasp, capture the instant.
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| Education and biography |
Graduated in Media at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in Music at the Barcelona's Conservatoire and in film at the New School University in New York. Co-founder of the theatre and film company Vertiginosas (islands) established in Barcelona and New York since 1997. I’m the recipient of several awards including the KrTU to Young Creators by the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya and the Kodak and Color Lab award for Best Cinematic Short Film for Under Influence.
I've been living in NY for the last 8 years. Besides developing my own projects, I’ve been working as an editor, director of photography and as a live video artist heading a team of multi-media video artists for Arts International, New Stage Theatre Company, Music World of Nana and Liquid Body Media, Dance and Movement Company, Catalan Center in NY among other companies. Since 1997 I have been Artistic Director of the film and theater company Vertiginosas (islands), New York-Barcelona. |
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Is there an edge of believe?
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
3 projections. 3 video flipbooks of one’s self-portrait. All of them projected on a big canvas. The center stage will be a re-creation of imaginary backgrounds, some of them more real than others: sand, stones, hallways, photographic backgrounds that suddenly dissolve into little squares randomly selected that leave the floor with partial projections of people’s feet shoot in reverse. We see the mirror image, the reflection, the bending back upon oneself mirrored in the floor as we walk.
The video creates a sense of intimacy. The portraits are all intimate scenarios, interior monologues about simulation. The replication of the image on so many still frames however prevents us from getting wholly absorbed and seduced by it; the images keeps reminding us of its own artificiality.
There is quite a lot of self-reflexivity and critique in the mediated stage space. The staging functions on a number of levels. There are flipbooks, floors created out of photographic backgrounds, digital video effects, impersonation, and caricatures. Everything is allowed to be suggestive and accumulate more significance than its physical appearance would indicate.
Is there and edge of believe?
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