Visions Archives - Ex-Plain

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Outsiders In The Cradle of Humanity: Joji Hashiguchi’s Street Photography Across Six Cities

In the summer of 1981, Japanese photographer Joji Hashiguchi left Tokyo on a self-directed journey through Liverpool, London, Nuremberg, West…

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Founded in 2018, COMRADE Gallery has grown into one of the most compelling new archives of Eastern Bloc visual design.…

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London-based artist Louis Pohl Koseda is emerging as one of the most distinctive chroniclers of contemporary British life. His intricate,…

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Art collector Désiré Feuerle has spent a lifetime dissolving the boundaries between ancient and contemporary Asian art. Having transformed an…

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In an era when digital algorithms can summon nearly any song on demand, the late Rutherford Chang’s obsession with a…

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Graffiti, one of the most pervasive aspects of spontaneous creativity in modern life has surprisingly simple stylistic origins, and while…

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Forget Japan—This small Baltic country is possibly the true master of surreal and weird animation, here are the films that…

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Across the history of Renaissance Art, the mysterious Dutch printmaker Hercules Seghers is perhaps the most innovative–and relatively unknown.

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A new auction unearths classic works from Raymond Pettibon, frequent Black Flag collaborator and the foremost artist of the Southern…

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A revealing glance by one Spanish photographer into the halcyon early days of the Ibizan clubbing and party scene, where…