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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:
| - | Pablo Picasso |
| - | Paul Cezanne |
| - | Gustav Klimt |
| - | Claude Monet |
| - | Marcel Duchamp |
| - | Henri Matisse |
| - | Jackson Pollock |
| - | Andy Warhol |
| - | Willem De Kooning |
| - | Piet Mondrian |
| - | Paul Gauguin |
| - | Francis Bacon |
| - | Robert Rauschenberg |
| - | Georges Braque |
| - | Wassily Kandinsky |
| - | Constantin Brancusi |
| - | Kasimir Malevich |
| - | Jasper Johns |
| - | Frida Kahlo |
| - | Martin Kippenberger |
| - | Paul Klee |
| - | Egon Schiele |
| - | Donald Judd |
| - | Bruce Nauman |
| - | Alberto Giacometti |
| - | Salvador Dalí |
| - | Auguste Rodin |
| - | Mark Rothko |
| - | Edward Hopper |
| - | Lucian Freud |
| - | 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 |
| - | Max Beckmann |
| - | Barnett Newman |
| - | Giorgio De Chirico |
| - | Roy Lichtenstein |
| - | 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 |
| - | Franz Kline |
| - | David Smith |
| - | Joseph Beuys |
| - | Alexander Calder |
| - | Louise Bourgeois |
| - | Marc Chagall |
| - | Gerhard Richter |
| - | Balthus |
| - | Joan Miro |
| - | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
| - | Frank Stella |
| - | Georg Baselitz |
| - | Francis Picabia |
| - | Jenny Saville |
| - | Dan Flavin |
| - | Alfred Stieglitz |
| - | Anselm Kiefer |
| - | Matthew Barney |
| - | George Grosz |
| - | Bernd And Hilla Becher |
| - | 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 |
TO SEE THE FULL 200 CLICK HERE
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| Adamo
Macri
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Montreal, Canada. I work with photography, video, sculpture, drawing and performance art.
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| About the Artist |
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Macri works with photography, video, sculpture, drawing and performance art. Distinctive themes interweave in his work such as the human condition, sexuality, identity and contamination. They are considered a set of commandments. He describes his creative process simulating the act of food preparation, fashioned through the amalgamation of disparate elements. He uses different mediums in a systematic order to arrive at the end result. He compares this methodical approach to stages of procreation.
Macri deals with the codependency of surface and content and the equal value of both. The example he uses to describe this concept is based on the relationship between a film and the poster created to promote it. A movie poster is a single still initiating the viewer’s imagination, prompting formulized imagery based on their interests and expectations. The outcome in actually viewing the movie can result in disappointment. The relationship between film and poster can be likened to the relationship between the container and the contained, the skin and the viscera.
Macri works with the idea of film and its use of multiple stills to evoke motion and evolution. The occurrence of evolution is also symbolic of the human condition. Every individual's state of being changes significantly during the course of one single day, due to the evolutionary nature of the human psyche and the constant adaptation to environment and mood. As a result, what one considers palatable in the morning is not necessarily deemed appealing in the afternoon or the evening. The route traced by these transitions is what he refers to as a "drill", epitomized by his slogan, "If you catch me at the right time, I might be in the mood."
Abstract art involves complex layering and facets. Macri claims that each aspect of the work must be conceptualized in order for it to be distinct and hold a true personalized view point. One very important facet to understand is his unique standpoint on sculpture. The idea alters the perception of the tangible object. Sculpture as a "3D Event", the practice of anti-sculpture. It is based upon perceiving sculpture as occurrence and not static presence. "An ephemeral three-dimensional occurrence, located at a specific point, which conjures up atemporal art." This reality is achieved at the final stage in his methodical process, the photographic segment. "The camera places all objects in the past tense. In an instant, sculpture has vanished and a new reality is created". Ultimately the final result must represent Macri's most important aspect of his art, the resonating image. |
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| Education and biography |
Born: Montreal, Canada, 1964
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Education: Dawson College (Montreal, Quebec) 1984
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Exhibitions:
2010 July 1 - 30
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Toijala, Finland)
Laaksola Culture Center
Laaksola Kulttuurikeskus Ryödintie 2, Toijala, Finland
2010 May 7 - 15
FACES: HEP 2010 Installation (Alcobaça, Portugal)
Gonçalves Sapinho Cultural Center
Rua do Centro Comunitário Apartado 197 2476-901
Benedita - Alcobaça - Portugal
2010 May 6
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Gdańsk, Poland)
PARAKINO
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art
Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia
ul.Jaskółcza 1, 80-767 Gdańsk
2010 April 29 - May 2
Beijing Contemporary Art Fair (Beijing, China)
China Agricultural Exhibition Center
ARTIST CINEMA
2010 April 30
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Geneva, Switzerland)
IVAZION
Rue de Genève 1, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 January 16 - March 14
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Beijing, China)
Beijing Contemporary Art Centre
1 ArtBase, Beijing 318 Art Garden, East 6-3, Hegezhuang Village, Cuigezhuang Township, Chaoyang District, Beijing China
2009 December 14 - 21
Festival Video DiaLoghi - (Torino, Italy)
Cinema Massimo Sala 3 – Museo del Cinema
Velan Centro d'arte Contemporanea
Galerja Dimenzija Napredka Nova Gorica Slovenia
Via Modena 52 10153 Torino Italia
2009 November 14 - December 12
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Macau, China)
AFA @ Portuguese Bookshop Gallery
Livraria Portuguesa, Rua de S. Domingos No. 18, Macau
2009 November 6 - December 31
Sguardi Sonori Festival (Benevento, Italy)
Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Rocca Dei Rettori
Piazza 4 Novembre, 82100 Benevento BN, Italia
2009 October 20 - 25
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Caldas da Rainha, PORTUGAL)
Museu José Malhoa
Parque Dom Carlos I 2500-109 Caldas da Rainha Portugal
2009 October 15 - 17
Optica Festival Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
Espacio Espora
Embajadores, 35
28012 Madrid
2009 October 3 - 18
Sguardi Sonori Festival (Rome, Italy)
Festival of Media and Time Based Art
Frascati Scuderie Aldobrandini per l'Arte Contemporanea
Piazza Marconi 6, 00044 Frascati Roma Italia
2009 September 24 - 26
Optica Festival Paris (Paris, France)
Collège d'Espagne - Cité Universitaire Internationale
Sala Luis Buñuel - 7e et 17 bd Jourdan - 75014 Paris
2009 September 10 - 12
Optica Festival (Córdoba, Spain)
Festival Internacional de Videoarte - Córdoba
Filmoteca de Andalucia - Espacio 3
C/ Medina Y Cordella, 5 Córdoba, Spain
2009 May 16
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Caldas da Rainha, PORTUGAL)
Museu Da Cerâmica
Quinta do Visconte de Sacavém
Rua Dr. Ilídio Amado
2504-910 Caldas da Rainha Portugal
2009 April 17 - 26
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Valladolid, SPAIN)
LaSALA Exposiciones Galería
Cigüñuela Valladolid España
2009 April 4
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Rome, Italy)
BRANCALEONE Via Levanna 13, Rome
2009 March 14
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Rome, Italy)
BRANCALEONE Via Levanna 13, Rome
2009 February 25 - March 8
HUMAN EMOTION PROJECT (Melbourne, Australia)
Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne
2007 October 31 - December 25
SLIDE and One Onion Canon (Online)
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