This May, exhibitions on display around the world harness photography and installation to interrogate pressing themes, from the importance of proper representation to the future of our natural spaces. They ask questions like: what happens after sea levels rise? What does the world look like 50 years from now? How do we preserve our cultures, traditions and communities in the face of massive uncertainty? They’re some of the most important issues facing our current moment. Each exhibition, hosted at the National Portrait Gallery, VB Photographic Center, ARKEN, Biennale of Sydney and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, explores them with depth and nuance. They do not provide easy solutions, but ask the audiences to hold...

Luminous Lucia Popp’s “Caro Nome” beams with Gilda’s youthful passion, displaying Popp’s signature bright, beautiful timbre and magnificent coloratura.

In 2019, Ralph Rugoff curated the 58th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale under the title May You Live in Interesting Times.Well, Ralph, you got what you wished for, and then some. Times are so "interesting" now that they've upended the next biennale before it’s even opened.The latest development is the collective resignation of the show's international jury. The jurors haven't given an explicit reason for their decision, but indicated it had something to do with their recent announcement that countries accused of committing crimes against humanity (namely, Israel and Russia) will not be considered for awards. I expect more drama during the press preview next week. Our team...

using choreography to navigate restrictive urban space
 
Silent Embrace is a short film by Luuk Walschot that examines the relationship between the human body and the built environment, focusing on how urban design shapes movement, behavior, and presence in the city. The film is set in Amsterdam, where elements of so-called hostile architecture have become increasingly visible within the public realm.
 
Rather than approaching the subject through explanation, the project uses choreography and physical interaction to explore how bodies respond to restrictive spatial conditions. Benches, barriers, and urban fixtures are presented not as neutral objects, but as elements that guide, limit, and redirect use....

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Legitimation of Dust, prima mostra presentata da hui.red dalla sua apertura, introduce a Milano il lavoro di Zhang Meichun, alla sua prima esposizione in Italia. La scelta inaugura una direzione programmatica precisa: portare in Europa pratiche artistiche che operano sul confine tra corpo, dato e percezione cosmica, aprendo un dialogo con una scena contemporanea cinese ancora scarsamente rappresentata nel circuito espositivo europeo.
Zhang Meichun, “The Blind Oracle”, 2024. Courtesy Hui.red
Attraverso il percorso espositivo, Zhang Meichun costruisce un ambiente in cui percezione, tecnologia e cosmologia si intrecciano fino a diventare inseparabili. La mostra, ospitata nello spazio milanese hui.red, segna...

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We live in a time of suppression — by governments, by corporations, by culture. What do we do against it? Let us show you. Below, we take you into a revolutionary photo studio in Mali that chronicled a nation's independence. A document of a city devastated by the AIDS crisis through portraits not just of people but of inanimate objects. A meditation on grief and death, and also a monument to the city's first Arabic-speaking enclave. These are artists who made or are making works from all kinds of places, from an attic during World War II, to the California state psychiatric system, to the very center of the art world. Here is art that is playful, cerebral, feral — art that offers a way...

Kim Dacres gravitates toward renewal and care, transforming worn rubber into expressive sculptural portraits. The New York-based artist twists and braids tired treads into sleek buns and rows typical of Black hairstyles, which she embellishes with gear-like crowns and jewelry made of metal bike chains. Spray painting the material to mask marks, Dacres utilizes what might otherwise be deemed worthless to create bold visages. A new body of work extends a series of celebratory busts the artist made to honor those who’ve inspired and influenced her. On view this month at Charles Moffett, Lost on a Two Way Street follows this trajectory, while adding flatter wall works evocative of Victorian-era cameos. “The...

With widespread boycott campaigns, a crowdfunded United States pavilion exhibition, and the jury's collective resignation before it even starts, the 61st Venice Biennale is moving more like a circus than the “Art Olympics.” In the latest twist, the Golden Lion awards have been shelved altogether this year, and it will now be up to the public to vote on the best national pavilion and best artist in the main exhibition.The Biennale Foundation announced the establishment of the “Visitor Lions” shortly after the Biennale's award jury issued its collective resignation yesterday, April 30. The jury's decision was an escalation of its previous statement of intent to omit “countries whose...

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Located in the Rhine Valley near St. Gallen, Switzerland, the Tower House by kit architects is a three-story detached dwelling that explores vertical living through prefabricated timber construction within a compact footprint. Designed for a family of four, the project occupies a constrained triangular site close to the historic village center, where considerations of scale, orientation, and privacy inform the layout.
 
The building is positioned to maintain distance from neighbouring structures, reduce overlooking, and open views toward the surrounding landscape. The site strategy also anticipates future development, allowing for the potential...

Construction crews building President Trump’s hostile border wall razed a portion of a Native American archeological site in Arizona estimated to be at least 1,000 years old.Approximately 60 to 70 feet of the 272-foot-long Las Playas Intaglio, a design etched into the ground in Southwest Arizona’s Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge, suffered damage from heavy construction machinery, as first reported by the Washington Post. The intaglio, a type of geometric or figurative drawing etched into arid desert pavements, resembles a fish and likely served as a sacred site for ancestors of the Tohono O’odham Nation, which lies east of the refuge. In a statement to Hyperallergic, a spokesperson for the...

Curator and writer Essence Harden has been appointed senior curator at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco. They will take up their new role on May 18. Harden, who is known for their deep interest in cutting-edge art and for bringing artists into the curatorial process, recently curated the 2026 […]

Martha Ortiz, the director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), has left her role amid allegations that she harassed museum employees and created a toxic environment at the institution. The museum in a statement said that Ortiz was retiring and that it would begin a search for a successor. Until one is […]

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On Wednesday, at a ceremony held at La Marmora barracks in Rome, the United States officially returned 337 looted antiquities to Italy in a repatriation ceremony, the New York Times reports.  221 objects were repatriated via collaboration with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, while the remaining 116 were recovered on April 10, 2026 as the […]

New Jersey’s Montclair Art Museum has hired Kate Kraczon as chief curator to replace former appointee Gail Stavitsky, Artnews reports. Kraczon was most recently director of exhibitions and chief curator at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, but she was terminated last December as, amidst austerity measures, the university underwent a rash of […]

There is a moment in many artists’ careers when they realize the art world is far more comfortable protecting objects than protecting the people who make them.It rarely announces itself. There is no singular betrayal. More often, the shift happens quietly, inside a document presented as routine. “Standard agreement.” “Minor revision.” “Just a formality.” The moment arrives when an artist stops skimming and starts reading.Mine came before an exhibition had even opened.I was preparing for a show with a gallery I was working with for the first time when I received the initial consignment agreement. A consignment agreement allows a gallery to take possession of artwork and sell it on the artist’s...

New York–based artist Guadalupe Maravilla had traveled to Venice last weekend to finalize the installation of his work at the 2026 Venice Biennale, a crowning achievement for any artist. But that situation, which he first posted about on Instagram, soured Thursday evening after he had left the Arsenale, one of the Biennale’s main venues, when two police officers approached him. “After completing the installation of my work at the Venice Biennale, I was racially profiled by police in the streets of Venice, who attempted to take me in for questioning,” Maravilla told ARTnews in a written statement. “Two officers initially stopped me and demanded my documents, then called in additional backup and...

Wheat impression on Neolithic mudbrick, Georgia TBILISI, GEORGIA—Phys.org reports that wheat for baking bread (Triticum aestivum) may have first been grown some 8,000 years ago in Georgia. Genetic studies of modern wheat plants and wild grasses indicate that domesticated wheat and wild goat grass were mixed in the South Caucasus and the Caspian Sea region. This hybrid plant eventually became bread wheat, explained Nana Rusishvili of the Georgia National Museum and her colleagues. They examined charred grains recovered from Gadachrili Gora and Shulaveris Gora, two Neolithic village sites in Georgia. Because charred grains of bread wheat look similar to durum wheat and other wheat seeds, the team members...

A Botticelli painting placed under an export ban in an effort to keep it in the UK was acquired by the Klesch Collection and will stay in England by way of a three-year loan to the Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford. As reported by The Art Newspaper, the work—titled The Virgin and Child Enthroned and dated to the 1470s—had been valued last May at £10.2 million (around $13.9 million). Previously it had sold at Sotheby’s in London for £9.7 million ($13.2 million). In a statement, the director of the Ashmolean Museum, Xa Sturgis, said the institution “warmly welcomes this acquisition of a painting by one of the most important artists in the Western tradition, and we’re so pleased that it...

Pieces of the Berlanga Cup BERLANGA DE DUERO, SPAIN—According to a Live Science report, a new study of the Berlanga Cup, a 1,900-year-old bronze vessel discovered in Spain, suggests that its decorations depict Hadrian’s Wall, which is located some 1,200 miles away from where the cup was discovered. “The cup is a small representation of a functional vessel called a Roman trulla—a bronze or clay cup with a handle used to drink water,” said Jesús García Sánchez of the Archaeological Institute of Mérida. “It is not only crafted with metals, but also expensive enamels, and later on customized. It is definitely not an industrial product,” García Sánchez added. The inscription on the cup lists...

Just two months after becoming a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jennifer Rubio, along with her husband, Stewart Butterfield, have pledged $23 million to the New York museum. Rubio is an entrepreneur who founded the ubiquitous travel brand Away, and Butterfield, who is on the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Dia Art Foundation, is a software executive who co-founded Flickr and Slack. The gift is earmarked for the Met’s internship program and will be used to ensure that all undergraduate and graduate internships are fully paid positions. The pledge, said Met director Max Hollein in a statement, will support “a continuous pipeline for new voices and innovative ideas to...

Powerhouse Parramatta soon to complete in sydney
 
With architecture by Moreau Kusunoki with Genton, Powerhouse Parramatta is taking shape in Western Sydney, Australia. The ambitious project, which is expected to complete in late 2026, will bring a colossal museum to Parramatta, a part of the city that has been growing fast but has had fewer institutions of this scale.
 
What stands out first is how the building handles its size. Two main volumes sit side by side, each wrapped in a deep structural skin. Instead of relying on a flat facade, the architects push the structure outward, turning it into something that can be read immediately from the street. It gives the building a presence without leaning on...

The central attraction at the Venice Biennale is its main exhibition, a curated show meant to pinpoint a dominant theme in art as it stands right now. But all around it are pavilions staged by countries, with each nation selecting one or more artists to mount their own show or installation. These national pavilions have contributed to the common conception of the Biennale as the art world’s Olympics: a place where stars are born and nations flex their might. The national pavilions often tend to remain in flux until the very end. In 2024, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza upended several nations’ plans to exhibit at the Biennale. In 2026, those conflicts have once again roiled this area of the Biennale, with...

The veteran provocateur talks about his return to the enduring motif of Santa Claus, and his ongoing collaboration with the German actress Lilith Stangenberg, as an exhibition of his taboo-busting work opens in Paris

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Francesco Faccin gives voice to the invisible support
 
At Francesco Faccin’s Piedistalli, the pedestal steps out from the background and claims its own presence. Presented at Galleria Giustini / Stagetti in Rome, the exhibition, the result of a long-term investigation, traces nearly two decades of research into the cultural, symbolic, and spatial role of the object tasked with supporting art. Rather than functioning as a neutral base, the pedestal emerges here as an active device that shapes perception, directs attention, and mediates the relationship between artwork and viewer.
 
For the Italian designer, the pedestal is never passive. Through height, materiality, proportion, and placement, it shapes the...

Nearly 200 objects will be on view at San Francisco's Legion of Honor in a show exploring the influential civilisation

The Goodwood Art Foundation hosts Britain's first major exhibition by the US artist

The head of the Venice-based publisher and exhibition organising company shares his suggestions for places to eat, shop and explore

May exhibitions from DESIGNBOOM RADAR
 
May’s exhibition calendar is shaped by a series of large institutional presentations and focused solo shows that revisit key figures while introducing new commissions. Major exhibitions by artists such as Marina Abramović, Katharina Grosse, and Ron Mueck anchor the month, while group surveys and thematic projects — from New York to Venice — consider how artists are working across performance, installation, and image-based practices today.
 
Some of the exhibitions highlighted in earlier radars and listings on our dedicated events guide remain on view, giving designboom readers more time to encounter them around the globe.
 
Iris van Herpen: Sculpting the...

While studying Un ballo in maschera for my Vienna role debut next January, I came across this beautiful ‘Ecco l’orrido campo’ amazingly performed by Montserrat Caballé.

La vita di Franco Ule (Trieste, 1959-2018) si è consumata nell’arco di una sessantina d’anni e ben scarne sono le testimonianze che ne possono tenere in vita la memoria. La sua indole ribelle non gli ha permesso di concludere alcun corso di studi artistici essendo entrato sempre in contrasto con le dottrine che i suoi “maestri” pretendevano di inculcargli. Per esempio, un insegnante che gli chiedeva di tirare linee diritte, mentre lui si ostinava a inseguire le sue pulsioni interiori, arrivò a spezzargli la punta della matita; modo un po’ brusco per dirgli che in quell’aula la sua pretesa espressione artistica legata al segno, al ghirigoro, allo scarabocchio, alla cancellazione, alla pittura...

Systems of power, cultural identity and “the fragile boundaries between perception and reality” are the ideas that drive Lucia Shuyu Li, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans installation, performance, painting and sound. They’re also some of the most relevant themes of our times, emerging from a contemporary era defined by misinformation, political polarisation and an endless news cycle. Li draws on her Chinese heritage and time spent in the US to create her works, which express her “experiences as an individual navigating the complexities of contemporary society.” The trio of paintings Judge Me, I Am Dead Therefore I Was Alive and Who Cried Walking Home are perhaps her most personal, and...

In recent years, Julianknxx has developed a practice that sits at a compelling intersection of film, poetry and performance – one that resists easy classification while remaining grounded in lived experience. Born in Sierra Leone and now based in London, his work reflects an engagement with questions of identity, displacement and cultural memory. Rather than treating these themes as fixed subjects, he approaches them as evolving conditions, shaped by movement, language and time; unfolding through a logic of association rather than linear narrative, rhythm, voice and atmosphere. This creates a viewing experience that is as much about listening and sensing as it is about interpretation. In this way, Julianknxx...

Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women artists, has died at 88. His death was announced in a press release by Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that represented the artist.  Baselitz exploded into the German art consciousness in the 1960s with a formal grit matched by tormented subject matter: his breakout “Heroes” series (1965–66) features bloated, blocky figures balancing on ruined buildings and toppled flags. Through his eyes, postwar German society appeared raw and taut as an exposed muscle. Next came his “Fracture” series, which...

Home might be a mutable concept, but some objects retain the aura of belonging and comfort even outside the walls we reside in. For Monica Rohan, those items are patterned fabrics and bentwood dining chairs, which venture outdoors in her vibrant oil paintings. The Brisbane-based artist has long depicted the supple folds and bright motifs of textiles, which tended to swaddle her characters or hide their faces among natural landscapes. Upholstered loungers and carved wood seats have similarly appeared in unusual spots, precariously holding a figure while nested in a slim hedge or slumping down a small hill. “Draped Clover” (2026), oil on board, 70 x 100 centimeters In recent years, though, Rohan’s...

Early medieval grave, Ergoldsbach, Germany MAINZ, GERMANY—Live Science reports that Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and his colleagues examined more than 250 sets of human remains of people who lived in what is now southern Germany, on what was the frontier of the Roman Empire, between A.D. 400 and 700. The researchers analyzed DNA samples from the bones, performed strontium isotope analysis to look for chemical signatures in the bones, and compared the results of the tests with 2,500 ancient and 379 modern genomes. The study suggests that many people engaged in monogamy, and nearly one-quarter of the children lost at least one parent by the age of ten. Yet, most children had at least...

Remains of a Neanderthal infant discovered in Amud Cave, Israel TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—IFL Science reports that an international team of researchers including Ella Been of Tel Aviv University and Erella Hovers of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has analyzed the skeletal remains of Amud 7, a Neanderthal infant unearthed near the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel in the 1990s. The bones have been dated to between 51,000 and 56,000 years ago. Previous research has found that Neanderthal fetal development was similar to that of modern humans. The size of the Amud 7 bones and skull, when compared to a modern human infant, would suggest that the Neanderthal child had been about one year old at the time of death. Yet,...

Earlier this month, dozens of metallic discs suspended from the ceiling of a large industrial space invited viewers to immerse themselves in what SpY describes as “a continuous choreography of movement and reflection.” The artist is known for his large-scale installations, often repurposing objects like traffic cones and metallic rescue blankets to create striking urban interventions. SpY’s most recent room-scale work, titled “Halos,” reimagined the industrial interior of a former railway-related factory in Florence—a place we typically associate with Renaissance elegance as opposed to brutalist design—as part of the city’s Bright Festival. Three stories high, “Halos” interacts with the...

Neolithic-era pit filled with beaver bones, Alsleben, Germany ALSLEBEN, GERMANY—A pit containing the 7,000-year-old remains of at least 12 beavers was discovered in central Germany during an investigation conducted ahead of the construction of an underground power line, according to the Science Information Service (IDW). Researchers from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt found the pit near a Neolithic settlement site of the Stroke-Ornamented Ware Culture on the Saale River. Study of the well-preserved beaver bones shows that the animals ranged in age from one year old to more than eight years old at the time of death. They are thought to have been hunted, skinned for...

Klaus Mäkelä unexpectedly joins the foray for The Cleveland Orchestra's performances of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem.

Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung at Canadian Opera Company deliver on fine performances even if Robert Lepage's production skimps on horror.

From recognizable scenes around her home in Scotland to delicately rendered snapshots of places she visits, Laura K. Sayers’ meticulously crafted postage stamps nod to connections from afar. The artist, who also illustrates children’s books and is commissioned for special projects like greeting cards, incorporates itty-bitty cuts of colorful paper into tiny tableaux that can fit in the palm of a hand. Much of the work seen here is currently on view solo in Sayers’ solo exhibition of miniatures titled The Wee Small Hours at N. atelier. An array of everyday scenes is chronicled in a format we typically associate with significant events and remembrance, documenting fleeting moments like little treasures....

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Join us on Sunday 07 June from 1.30pm to celebrate the launch of INTO THE TREES by photographer Jo Stapleton, curated by Karen Harvey and published by Shutter Hub Editions.
INTO THE TREES is an expressionist photographic account of Jo’s interactions with trees and woodland, later remembered and reimagined in the darkroom using a range of alternative processes and techniques.
Drinks and canapés will be served from 1.30pm before the formal launch event at 2pm, including a book signing and interview discussion between Karen and Jo about the making of the book and the role photography has to play in helping to protect our wildlife and green spaces.
To celebrate the launch of the book, Jo has produced a...

In Deborah Turbeville – Photocollage and Ikram Abdulkadir – Soft Focus, presented side by side at Moderna Museet Malmö, the image is not fixed but constantly in negotiation with time, material and gaze. Fashion and portrait photography provide the point of departure, yet both practices quickly exceed their commercial origins. Instead, they unfold into meditations on presence – how a body occupies space, and how that space might be withheld, transformed or dissolved over time. Across both exhibitions, softness becomes a structural principle rather than a purely aesthetic choice. Turbeville’s work establishes a language of atmospheric resistance, where the photograph resists clarity in favour of...

Non tutte le invisibilità coincidono con l’assenza. Alcune, più insidiose, sono prodotte da un paradossale eccesso di esposizione. Si tratta di corpi continuamente inscritti entro una matrice discorsiva e materiale che li classifica gerarchicamente, li piega a una funzione e, pertanto, li sottrae alla possibilità di apparire come singolarità. L’invisibile, in questo senso, non è ciò che manca allo sguardo, ma ciò che lo sguardo non sa sostenere senza ridurlo a figura amministrabile, a presenza funzionale, a materia governabile entro l’ordine storico. Si tratta di un in(di)visibile strutturalmente implicato nell’ordine che lo produce. L’invisibilità di cui parla Pamela Diamante non ha nulla a...

Every month, we share opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. Make sure you never miss out by joining our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Scenerium 2026 Art Award: Exhibition, Publication, Sales, and Global PromotionFeaturedWhere will your art take us? From landscapes and seascapes to cityscapes and imagined worlds, Scenerium 2026 invites artists worldwide to capture the essence of place and turn it into a visual journey. Through natural scenes, urban energy, and visionary environments, this juried opportunity celebrates art that draws viewers in and places them inside the world you create. Selected artists receive a smart online exhibition, Artsy...

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In Kashmir, India, there are three stages of winter: Chillai Kalan, Chillai Khurd and Chillai Bache. The first is The Great Cold, occupying mid-December to the end of January, when the weather is at its harshest and temperatures drop below freezing. Snowfall is a common occurrence. The second is the Small Cold, when things warm up slightly but the weather can still be biting, followed finally by The Baby Cold, characterised by intermittent sunshine and melting ice. This annual progression towards spring is the focus of a new book from Magnum photographer Sohrab Hura (b. 1981). Snow documents the artist’s repeated visits to the Indian-administered region over a five-year period, recording its passage...

C’è qualcosa di profondamente antiretrospettivo nella mostra dedicata a Agnès Varda, e non è un paradosso, ma una precisa presa di posizione. Pur presentandosi come la prima grande retrospettiva italiana consacrata alla sua opera fotografica, l’esposizione evita con decisione la forma celebrativa e lineare per articolarsi piuttosto come una costellazione di materiali che restituiscono la natura mobile e refrattaria della sua pratica.
“Agnès Varda. Qui e là, tra Parigi e Roma”, installation view at Villa Medici – Accademia di Francia, Roma, ph. © Daniele Molajoli, courtesy Villa Medici – Accademia di Francia
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By Nancy Spiller Alec Egan's painting "Dawn House," in his show "Groundskeeper" at Vielmetter Los Angeles, is tender, serene, and calm — a lavender and peach sky sheltering the triangular top of a house flanked by two palm trees and the tip of a cypress. In its companion painting, "Night House," the sky takes a sinister turn with layers of dark blue, sunset orange, and a roiling strip indicative of flames mixed with what might be smoke. It hints at something of what Egan, his wife, and two...

C’è sempre, entrando in una mostra, un momento quasi automatico, e in fondo un po’ ridicolo nella sua prevedibilità, in cui ci si ritrova a chiedere che cosa si abbia davanti, che cosa sia davvero ciò che si sta guardando, come se fosse ancora possibile, oggi, ottenere da una domanda del genere una risposta stabile, qualcosa che non si dissolva nello stesso istante in cui prende forma.
Andrea Capucci, “In forma di amore”, 2026, terracotta invetriata, 30 × 40 cm. Courtesy Galleria Antonio Verolino, Modena
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Matthew Walton is an emerging artist based in Toronto. He holds a B.A.A. (Hons.) in Animation from Sheridan College. His mixed-media practice combines drawing and painting, often merging the human form with a distinct graphic sensibility. The result is figurative compositions that strike a distinct textural contrast between softness and hardness. Embracing gestures and mannerisms once repressed, his work is also a celebration of authentic self-expression.
Froot Loops features Matthew’s mixed-media-work-on-paper series highlighting the quiet charm of everyday queerness. Each piece reimagines a separate mundane moment, transformed by Matthew’s bold, graphic approach to figuration and his vibrant technicolor...