The Magazine 43

Best artists of 2023: Elizabeth Murray

Trained as a painter, and professional gardener she brought her eye for composition, colour, and effects of light to her photography as well as her paintings and garden design.

Get to know more about the artist and other featured best artists of 2023 on our website.

Path to Wildflowers © Elizabeth Murray | Courtesy Artwork International
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OPENS TODAY IN MALMÖ Nordic Art Agency

Swedish fibre artist, Mia Hultgren’s solo exhibition ASPECTS vernissage today at 5-7pm
and will run through 2 December 2023.

During her two-month Artist Residency at the Nordic Art Agency this new body of work emerged from the inspiration of her surrounding environment and life; surface, form, or aspects of being a social human. Through the materials and form, and with methods of repetition, layering, and connecting Mia Hultgren investigates these systems, constructs and her emotional response.

Images courtesy Nordic Art Agency

Brice Guilbert: Ti brulé, an exhibition of new paintings by artist and musician Brice Guilbert, at its Hong Kong gallery from November 3 to December 7. Named for a song on Guilbert’s latest album Sin Jo, the exhibition will include seven large-scale paintings and one small-scale composition.

The artist will be present and will give a live guitar performance of songs from Sin Jo—will be held at the gallery on 2 November from 6 to 8 p.m.

Brice GuilbertFournez, 2022,
oil stick on wood 59-1/16 × 70-7/8”,
© Brice Guilbert, courtesy Pace Gallery

ASPECTS a solo exhibition of Swedish fibre artist Mia Hultgren at Nordic Art Agency

Mia Hultgren's practice is an exploration of contradictions and transformation both in material as in the subject. Through an exploratory and experimental process in various textile techniques, and sometimes with material that goes beyond fibres, she works in the field of tension that arises between material, form, and colour.

Vernissage: 19 October 17:00-19:00
through 2 December 2023

Nordic Art Agency, Stora Nygatan 56, Malmö, Sweden

Images Courtesy Nordic Art Agency

Ongoing at Galleria Duemila , solo exhibition of Trek Valdizno. An exploration of something greater than oneself that is divine or cosmic in nature— a connection forged within himself and his outer world.

Drop by if you are in Manila!

A playlist for a rainy day—October Playlist is now out!

Featuring father of Belgian surrealists, ‘s Golconda.

Depicting a scene of nearly identical men dressed in dark overcoats and bowler hats, who seem to be drops of heavy rain (or to be floating like helium balloons, though there is no actual indication of motion), against a backdrop of buildings and blue sky. The men are spaced in hexagonal grids facing the viewpoint and receding back in grid layers. Magritte himself lived in a similar suburban environment, and dressed in a similar fashion. The bowler hat was a common feature of much of his work, and appears in paintings like “The Son of Man”.

Courtesy renemagritte.org

Roy Lichtenstein’s Bauhaus Stairway Mural (1989) at Gagosian 555 West 24th Street, New York.

Measuring more than 26 feet tall and painted in oil and Magna on canvas, Bauhaus Stairway Mural pays homage to German abstract artist Oskar Schlemmer (1888–1943) and his painting Bauhaustreppe (Bauhaus Stairway, 1932). Lichtenstein’s mural was commissioned for the main atrium of the headquarters of the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Beverly Hills, which the building’s architect, I.M. Pei, envisioned as a meeting place for writers, directors, actors, musicians, and agents—an emphasis on cross-disciplinary interaction that resonated with Lichtenstein’s interest in accessible creative forms.

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ROY LICHTENSTEIN
Bauhaus Stairway Mural, 1989
Oil and Magna on canvas
26 feet 5 3/4 inches x 17 feet 11 3/4 inches (807.1 x 548 cm)
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Photo: Rob McKeever
Courtesy Gagosian

Antiguan artist, writer, and polymath Frank Walter’s ‘Pastorale’ at David Zwirner Hong Kong is currently features paintings and works on paper that exemplify Walter's rich body of work, which encompasses a variety of media, styles, and formats, including those made on such supports as Polaroid film cartridge boxes, mosquito coil boxes, and fragments of sketchpad covers.

On view through 28 October H Queen's Hong Kong

Details from Alexander Guy’s “What are you Looking at?” Woaw Gallery

A visual souvenir of the past year in Glasgow, a time capsule for the year of 2023 that captures the essence of our times. The exhibition invites us to reflect on the challenges of our times through mundane and the commonplace.

EXTENDED through 14 October

ABUNDANCE, an exhibition of new still-life and landscape paintings by Thomas Houseago currently at Hong Kong 🇭🇰 and will be on view through 4 November

Abundance Paintings is a new body of work produced en plein air, and in a new studio in Malibu, California, which reflects on cosmic and spiritual interconnectedness and the transcendental power of nature. The works’ titles and expressive imagery evoke ocean waves and the flora of Malibu at sunrise and sunset, with suns, moons, rocks, and skies rendered in vibrant color and undulating lines.

1) Thomas Houseago’s studio, Malibu, California, 2023
Artwork © Thomas Houseago
Courtesy Gagosian
Photo: Josh White

2) Thomas Houseago in his studio, Malibu, California, 2023 | Artwork © Thomas Houseago, Courtesy Gagosian, Photo: Josh White

3) THOMAS HOUSEAGO
ABUNDANCE, Installation views , 2023
Artwork © Thomas Houseago
Courtesy Gagosian
Photo: Martin Wong

Closing soon: Blind Hope, Willful Ignorance, & Obscene Inequality…
(The State We’re In) at Galleria Duemila

Works by Ronald Achacoso, RM De Leon, Winner Jumalon, Cris Villanueva Jr., and Raul Rodriguez

through 30 September

Images courtesy Galleria Duemila

1) Winner Jumalon
"Temporada III"
oil on canvas
91.44 x 91.44 cm
2023

2) Cris Villanueva Jr.
“It Never Comes Easy”
acrylic & oil on canvas and wooden objects
121.82 x 121.82 cm
2023

3) Ronald Achacoso
“Cracks and Abysses”
oil on canvas
123 x 92 cm
2023

4) RM De Leon
“Rabbits in the Woods”
acrylic on paper
121 x 140 cm
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5) Raul Rodriguez
“Head Turner”
oil on wood panel
121.92 x 152.40 cm
2006

Sui Jianguo: New Works at Pace Gallery Hong Kong has recently opened. Exhibition will run through 26 October
Visit H Queen's Hong Kong

Installation view, "Sui Jianguo: New Works" September 21 – October 26, 2023,
Pace Gallery, Hong Kong

Photo: Cow Lau, courtesy Pace Gallery

September playlist is now LIVE 🎧 🍂
In a slightly melancholic and nostalgic vibe this season—looking back at simpler times.

Featuring “Forest in Autumn”, by Gustave Courbet, 1841.

The famous French realist painter, recognised for his realism and who was inspired in his early career by old masters' works, with this influence visible in Forest in Autumn.

Courbet caused a sensation when he exhibited a series of paintings at the Paris Salon of 1850–51. The works depicted workers and other motifs from his native Ornans that defied the genre standards of the times.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4FAPvYIJp5ZReGeXFJaAya?si=c63fda79402044e9

Liu Youran’s Solo Exhibition “The Body of Cybele” opens tomorrow at Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok with an opening reception at 4pm.

Artist portrait Courtesy Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok

‘s solo exhibition, The Body of Cybele at Tang Contemporary Art Bangkok opens next week!

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OPEN CALL ‼️

Calling all artists from all different fields of art (visual art, performance, film, music, design, fashion, literary, etc.)! Be the next featured artist for the coming 2024 issue.

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Streetstyle at SS24 🔥

Photographed by:

1-7: Noor-u-nisa Khan
8 & 9: Acielle Tanbetova

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celebrates 60 years of their iconic poppy print, “Unniko” created in 1964 by Maija Isola 🥂

A wonderful collection beautiful out together showcasing its classic style.

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Always exciting to see some new (and seasoned) designers creating impeccable looks for the runway!

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Head over heels on how has brought such elegance and sophistication to the runway! Those clean silhouettes matched with chunky jewellery, a soft, fluid colour palette, and of course the airy movement of the fabric—THIS is just screaming perfection!

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Loving all these looks from Day 1 of —can’t wait to see the rest of 🔥

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Day 1 at beginning w/ .roegehove , and here are our favourite looks from the collection!

Great craftsmanship as always, and loving the silhouettes in this collection 🔥

Photographed by James Cochrane

Just a few more hours till SS24 🔥

Photography: Christabelle Beaudry
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is keen on keeping shapes and volumes from overwhelming the personality of the wearer. Maximizing self-expressive potential through reworked classics is what Dawei is after. Couture details are giving structure to the clothes, associated with more sportswear touch and the signature colour palette. 

The lightness of fabrics makes the clothes intangible and dancing according to the movement of the body. Silhouettes have a clarity and purity that is only enhanced by contrast to the poetic intensity of the prints based on floral patterns. Rose pink, acid yellow, water green or emerald resonate like a symphony of Spring.

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artist, Noël Bennett’s abstract art shimmers with colour and texture. It speaks from a shift in consciousness she had while living with the Diné (Navajo) for eight years. 

Noël’s recent paintings sum up life experience and clarify her intention.” They are subtitled, simply. I am the Mountain.

The artist has published ten books and given over 200 multimedia presentations to conferences, museums and universities across the United States. A traveling museum exhibition, We are the Mountain, is slated for 2025.

Art: I Am the Mountain-Lingering Presence | Courtesy the Artist and Artwork International

Explore the legacy of —the historical art movement through masterworks Japanese abstract painter and the first-generation member of the postwar artists collective Gutai Art Association, along with four of its founding members: Sadamasa Motonaga, Shozo Shimamoto, Yozo Ukita and Jiro Yoshihara be on display at OVR via

In view now through 13 August
to the OVR on our website/ 🇯🇵

Art: Kazuo Shiraga, Work, oil on paper, 36.5x25.5cm, Courtesy Wangsim