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Yayoi Kusama
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929 in Matsumoto, Japan) lives and works in Tokyo. Kusama's career has been developing for 70 years. Today, the 88-year-old Japanese artist is a real pop star. There are huge queues for her exhibitions in America, Europe and Asia. In many ways, the success of her art, effectively combining minimalism and pop art, was provided by social networks.
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Damien Hirst
British artist Damien Hirst (b. 1965, Bristol) lives and works in London. “Undoubtedly one of the worst exhibitions of the last decade,” wrote art critic Andrew Russet of Hirst’s massive project shown at the 2017 Art Biennale. “The Treasures of the Sunken Incredible” is a grandiose installation that occupied both exhibition areas of the collector François Pinault in Venice.
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Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz was born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Germany. Lives and works in Salzburg, Austria. Artist, graphic artist and sculptor, rightfully called one of the main figures of German neo-expressionism. In 2018, the artist's 80th birthday will be celebrated with a grandiose exhibition at the Swiss Fondation Beyeler.
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov. Recently, he has been working in collaboration with his niece and wife, Emilia Kabakov, the Kabakovs live in New York (Long Island). In the 1960s, Kabakov became a co-founder and leader of the artistic movement "Moscow Conceptualism" that had formed by the end of the decade.
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Banksy
French artist Pierre Huig lives and works in Paris and New York. Conceptualist, one of the key figures in the "Relational Aesthetics" direction of contemporary art, a favorite of French intellectuals. He received wide recognition as the author of multi-channel art videos and video installations. In the 90s he was engaged in post-production.
