Art movements

Cynics who view pricey abstract art and scoff "a kid probably painted that" are finally right.

At just 12 years old, Xeo Chu is setting sales records with his colorful, abstract paintings, which are selling for more than $150,000 and are being compared to works by reknown American artist Jackson Pollock.

The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki has organized a comprehensive exhibition on Russian avant-garde painter and designer Lyubov Popova, nicknamed the "Amazon" for her fearless spirit of adventure.

From 7 to 16 October, the exhibition is hosted at the KO-OP Art and Events Space.

Romania will stage about 250 first-rate cultural events at the EUROPALIA 2019 International Festival of Arts, which opens in Brussels on October 1 with an exhibition dedicated to late Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi.

Greek sculptor Takis, whose art was defined by the use of light and electromagneticism, died Friday at his home in Gerovouno, north of Athens, at the age of 93. Born Panagiotis Vasilakis, he served in the Greek resistance to the Nazi occupation and lived through the civil war that ensued. He moved to Paris in 1954.

Artists from over ten countries will participate in the sixth edition of the festival - the 180 ° Contemporary Art Lab. It will open doors tomorrow in the capital.

A former paper warehouse was made available to artist Nikos Artemis by the City of Athens for an audiovisual installation. The initiative is part of the municipal authority's ongoing efforts to utilize abandoned buildings in the city center and help revive neighborhoods that have fallen on hard times.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila says in a message on Constantin Brancusi National Day that February 19 is a tribute to the great Romanian artist who carried with him all over the world the Romanian national identity, adding that it is a day that we honor "the sculptor, the visionary, the genius, the maker of shapes inspired by tradition that became reference works of modern sculpture."

The Bernier/Eliades Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Italian Arte Povera pioneer Μarisa Merz, the movement's only female proponent, comprising paintings and sculptures that transform everyday materials like copper wire, clay and wax. Among the displays are many that featured in a retrospective on Merz at the Metropolitan Museum of New York last year.

In the exhibition, supported by Goethe-Institut Istanbul, starting from their reflection on modernism and the Bauhaus culture, the artists and architects Aslı Serbest and Mona Mahall show a series of works and speculative research on feminist spatial utopias.