Contemporary Art

Read more to discover how Christo managed to invent and realize his huge and amazing projects and installations, such as the packages and the mastabas.

In Chinese, Wou-Ki means « no limits ». A name that particularly suits this artist, whom embraced different cultural identities without ever being beholden to one. It also suits the variety of his works in terms of content, as well as the different techniques he experimented, such as oil on canvas, ink on paper, lithography, engraving, and watercolor.

Is collecting art a rich man’s hobby? Nothing could be more wrong. Forget about the prices you see quoted – they’re paid for investment purposes, mostly on a speculative basis, and are often overblown. Collecting art – real collecting – is something else.

Giorgio Griffa, who was born in Turin in 1936, is hard to fit into any specific art movement. In fact, the appeal of his works, produced in the course of a career spanning more than 50 years, has to do with a kind of elusive quality they have.