Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the Giustizia e Libertà antifascist group. He experimented with a continuous graphic stroke–not removing his pencil point from the paper. He explored the relationship between nature and the subj
From around 1960, in response to the modernist mainstream in Slovak art, Július Koller began to develop his aesthetic position of the “antihappening.” His strategy consists in using real objects and everyday life as the predefined program for an aesthetic operation: from 1965, in texts rubbersta
Banksy (born 1974 in Bristol) is a well-known pseudo-anonymous English graffiti artist. He is believed to be a native of Yate, Gloucestershire, near Bristol and to have been born in 1974, but there is substantial public uncertainty about his identity and personal and biographical details. Accordin
Stephanie Syjuco (b. 1974) is a multi-media artist whose colorfully bold, conceptually sly and often humorous work explores issues of consumerism, global economics, technology, nationality and self-documentation. Bridging the worlds of contemporary art, craft, industrial design and fashion, Syjuco's