Expressions of Love
Love has provided inspiration throughout art history. Here are five photographers – all featured in Aesthetica Art Prize – who document devotion.
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Love has provided inspiration throughout art history. Here are five photographers – all featured in Aesthetica Art Prize – who document devotion.
What do relationships look like in the 21st century? 23 photographers come together to document the foundation of human connection.
A group exhibition revisits the sunshine motif from musical ‘Hair’, cautiously offering hope through new, golden visions of the future.
A MoMA retrospective offers a “critical reintroduction” to five decades of photographer Ming Smith’s experimental practice.
Karl Roberts sees the landscape as a blank canvas – an environment in which he can “create the magic he doesn’t see in the world around him.”
Sixty global practitioners experiment with analogue and digital photography to offer new perspectives on the topics that are shaping modern-day life.
Women have been at the forefront of every stage of the photographic revolution. Now, pioneering artists are responding to sustainability and climate.
Refik Anadol is an artist at the cutting-edge of a fast-developing medium, using AI to craft breathtaking digital experiences from various and vast datasets.
Colour is fundamental to art. A group show celebrates the ways pigments convey intense emotions, incite symbolism and connect people.
Yayoi Kusama’s installations offer the chance to “become one with eternity,” encouraging a detachment from reality with twinkling lights.
Pavlo Fyshar’s work is characterised by a sense of discomfort. Playful pastel pinks and greens draw the viewer in, yet the world they find is off-kilter.
Books. Pianos. Window frames. Suitcases. Clothes. These are just some of the items to be found tied up within Chiharu Shiota’s mesmerising installations.
Aesthetica marks 20 years since the first issue was published. This edition is dedicated to the power of creativity, the arts and independent print.
Experiences of forced migration are examined through utopian dreams. Duo Cooper & Gorfer expose the inner and outer realities for women.
Dreamscapes is a world of elegant imagination. James Tralie’s digital renders reconstruct natural environments and architecture into serene scenes
Maria Lax’s spellbinding images utilise innovative camera techniques to transform figures, buildings and plants into cinematic, otherworldly creations.
Celebrate the publication’s 20th anniversary as one of the founders discusses how the magazine has become a trusted voice in contemporary art.
Nadine Ijewere’s fashion photography redefines narratives of beauty, encouraging more diverse representation in front of and behind the camera.
Isaac Julien dismantles restrictive boundaries of genre and medium. Now, a landmark exhibition surveys four decades of his experimental practice.