Borremans´ command of his medium, both on paper and on canvas, is astonishing. He references the great figurative painters, not so much of the 20th century, but from earlier periods. Upon closer inspection, the works reveal idiosyncrasies: light sources, perspectives, points of view, croppings, distinguish these paintings and place them in a contemporary context. - Zwirner Gallery

Haunting, ferocious, erotic, fierce. The Dresden artist invokes a punk feel and attitude to a quixotic innocence of loss and insecurity.

Massive canvases of cropped gender infused rancid colored pigments that betray a sense of fresh crisp exposure to the body and its sensuality represenenting its dynamic mortality. The emotional impact of her work is similar to Lucian Freud, less neurotic, more forceful and vivid.

The old Flemish masters are made modern by a trademark haunt of ambiguous emotional turmoil that re-contextualizes familiar themes stripped of any moral authority.

White ghost casts people ordinary moments in a staged sculpture that dramatizes an empty terror within the vicissitudes of life.

Uglow who died in 2000 canvasses the rigor of empirical fastidiousness so as to give a face to an immanent absece within the core of its spiritual vacuity.

Exposing the gap between represented image and historical event, Luc Tuymans's paintings delve into the inner workings of how mythology is created.Luc Tuymans's paintings consciously fall desperately short of the iconic, becoming vestiges posed as counterfeit emblems for that which cannot be conveyed. - Saatchi Gallery

Subjectivity exhibited for its inability to speak, its thwarted projection of passive candor that begs to be understood and acknowledged.

Albanian Anri Sala is one of the most highly regarded young video artists around. He came to international attention in 1999 for his work in After the Wall, the Stockholm Modern Museum 's exhibition of art from post-communist Europe.

Thomas Schutte plays a dialectic of sorts between sculpture and architecture. Displacement and condensation cosmically define the environment and the interior quarters of the self.

Owens is ambitious, and her work reveals a sophisticated awareness of the forces at play in the contemporary art world. Her oeuvre is a pastiche of styles informed by current and past critical discourse, executed with a coyness and a flair that cause a disconnect. Her art introspective and theoretically engeged.

Neo Rauch's paintings understate alienation through a fussy anxious dramatization that topples, teeters within a surrealist stress.

Enigmatic, controversial British sculptor who has pushed the boundaries of art by exploring the biological, the erotic, the sublime, and not least subjectivity in ways that violate the comfort zone of the viewers.

One of the most recognizable figure painters of the contemporary art worl, Chuck Close portraits are overdetermined with a self-examination that is merciless and impassioned.

Hans Bellmer's work evokes a fascination with the irrational and the inanimate by granting it an erotic lascivious space within which to cast obsessive forces of inordinate tension.

Urban installation artists who uses organic form and geometric arrangements to manipulate space and time.

Died in 1996 due to AIDS complications. The Cuban New York transplant whose minimalist work engaged the audience and often allowed them to take a chunk of it as a keepsake. His late work issued metaphors that evidenced the process of dying he was living as a heightened reality.

Space is overhauled, redefined and reinscribed into our perceptive subconscious by way of installations that brim with genius. Philosphy by way of art.

Dutch painter and scultor who founded the CoBrA movement. The innocence and vibrancy of his sculpture is teeming with wonder and a savage enthusiasm.

The master of kitsch. The cute, the sinister and the spirited is satirized, co-opted as art becomes a commercially dependent toybox.