![\"Andreas](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Andreas-Gursky-Paris-Montparnasse-1993.-bbc.co_.uk_.jpg\")
Andreas Gursky “Paris Montparnasse”,1993. Image from bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Andreas Gursky “Paris Montparnasse”,1993. Image from bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n
Notorious for his seamless blend of art and humour<\/a>, Italian-born Maurizio Cattelan is contemporary art’s most\u00a0satirical sculptor. For the 1993 Venice Biennale, the artist\u00a0sold his space to perfume brand\u00a0Schiaparelli due to the immense anxiety he felt during the creative process. Entitled “Working Is a Bad Job”, the work raised questions of commerce and art, with critics labelling the gesture an act of cynicism. When Wolfgang Tillmans exhibited his very first show in 1993 at K\u00f6ln’s Galerie Buchholz,\u00a0this marked the beginning of a very long professional relationship between the photographer and the multi-locale\u00a0art space. In a room of 9 sqm, the artist presented a series of zoomed-in portraits in black and white as well as a selection of\u00a0colour photographs. The German photographer documented the decade like no one else. He shot London\u2019s and Berlin\u2019s underground techno and rave scenes in the early \u201990s as well as the personalities of the era including Tony Blair and Chlo\u00eb Sevigny. To this day, Tillmans is still represented by Buchholz, with the artist’s most recent show\u00a0“Studio” presented during the 2016 Berlin Gallery Weekend. Carsten H\u00f6ller’s immersive\u00a0works\u00a0utilise fantastical elements such as carousels, slides and light installations\u00a0in an effort to play with patrons’ senses of perception. In 1993, the artist joined Cattelan in the Venice exhibition “Aperto 93”, a show which positioned H\u00f6ller for a successful career that has allowed the artist to show everywhere from London’s Tate Modern to Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof. Incorporating his Thai background into the piece presented at Venice’s Aperto 93, Rirkrit Tiravanija exhibited an artwork\u00a0that references Thailand’s culinary practice of meal sharing.\u00a0“Untitled\u00a01993 (Cure)” saw the artist cooking traditional Thai soups inside a tea tent. The work aimed to reformulate conceptions of art, with particular emphasis on the\u00a0important question of when something actually becomes “art” – a fervent topic of the decade. In the 1990s, Richard Billingham photographed his parents in a series that eventually became “Ray’s a Laugh”. The intimate project revealed\u00a0the alcoholism of his father as well as his mother’s tendency to hoard pets and cheap\u00a0tchotchkes. Billingham chose to shoot the series on the cheapest film available as a\u00a0reflection of\u00a0the family’s deep level of poverty. Further, he utilised an especially sharp flash in order to accurately portray the intense\u00a0reality. The large-scale works of Andreas Gursky are a testament to the Nineties \u2013 a decade in which consumerism reached an all time high and just before America’s post-millennial economic crash. Colour, repetition and size all\u00a0create a dizzying effect, with his work “99 cent” serving as commentary on the age of globalisation. During the Nineties,\u00a0artists\u00a0increasingly explored themes of personal identity in their works. American multimedia creative\u00a0Daniel Joseph Martinez used art to\u00a0challenge\u00a0issues such as\u00a0democracy and\u00a0societal power.\u00a0His work entitled\u00a0“Museum Tags Second Movement Overture or Overture” is a piece which focuses on these themes, with Martinez turning\u00a0the Whitney Museum’s admission tags into signs that read\u00a0“I can’t imagine ever wanting to be white.” One of the most prominent artists to work under\u00a0the Relational Aesthetics movement, Douglas Gordon’s multi-sensory installations\u00a0played with viewers expectations versus reality. French curator Nicolas Bourriaud described Gordon’s and other Relational Aesthetics artists’ works as focusing on “the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.” Incorporating punk rock and other pop culture influences into his art, Mike Kelly\u00a0spent the Nineties creating art that merged the\u00a0high brow with the low.\u00a0The artist has collaborated with many artists such as Paul McCarthy and Tony Oursler, as well as\u00a0the\u00a0seminal New York noise-rock band Sonic Youth. During\u00a0an era when supermodels ruled the world, Vanessa Beecroft used highly-choreographed\u00a0performances\u00a0to explore society’s obsession with physical perfection and the pressures that women face in particular. Following\u00a0her rise to the top, the artist has since become a major collaborative force with\u00a0musician Kanye West. The artists giving us serious nostalgia for the decade that never left Berlin<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11856,139],"tags":[6032,3022,6368,422,3450,6369,2048,1864,398,6370,6371,6372,6373,826],"class_list":["post-39534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sleek-art","category-art","tag-andreas-gursky","tag-carsten-holler","tag-daniel-joseph-martinez","tag-douglas-gordon","tag-frieze-art-fair","tag-globalization","tag-maurizio-cattelan","tag-mike-kelley","tag-nineties","tag-relational-aesthetics","tag-richard-billingham","tag-rirkrit-tiravanija","tag-vanessa-beecroft","tag-wolfgang-tillmans"],"acf":{"main_category":null,"legacy":"1","exclude_from_ads":null,"hero_title":null,"subtitle":null,"hero":null,"teasers":null,"facebook_image":null,"related_articles":null,"next_article":null,"sleek_card_focus":null,"content":null},"yoast_head":"\n
\nA\u00a0new\u00a0area\u00a0was introduced at this year’s Frieze Art Fair<\/a> in London, as Geneva-based curator Nicolas Trembley placed special attention on\u00a0an era of TLC<\/a>, europop and raving with The Nineties section. Tapping into society’s current obsession with all things pre-Y2K<\/a>, galleries\u00a0were given the task of highlighting key creatives from the seminal period in contemporary art. Some of these artists have since retired or passed, while others continue to produce a steady stream of works.
\nFollowing the wave of Nineties nostalgia, here we highlight 10 other important artists to gain prominence during the decade, in addition to our YBA special.<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n![\"Maurizio](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/working-is-bad-job_1.jpg\")
Maurizio Cattelan. Working is a Bad Job, 1992. Image from artsalesindex.artinfo.com<\/p>\nMaurizio Cattelan<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\n![\"Wolfgang](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tillmans_2.jpg\")
Wolfgang Tillmans, Daniel Buchholz exhibition, 1992. Image from anothermag.com<\/p>\nWolfgang Tillmans<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\n![\"Carsten](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Carsten_Hollers_Double_Slide-wikimedia.org_.jpg\")
Carsten H\u00f6ller’s “Double Slide” Image from wikimedia.org<\/p>\nCarsten H\u00f6ller<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\n![\"Rirkrit](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Untitled-1992-Free.jpg\")
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Untitled 1992 (Free). Image from kurimanzutto.com<\/p>\nRirkrit Tiravanija<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\n![\"Richard](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/billingham.jpg\")
Richard Billingham “Ray’s a Laugh”. Image from americansuburbx.com<\/p>\nRichard Billingham<\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\n![\"Andreas](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Andreas-Gursky-99-Cent-1999-matheamillman.wordpress.comAndreas-Gursky-99-Cent-1999-matheamillman.wordpress.com_edit.jpg\")
Andreas Gursky”99 Cent”, 1999. Image from matheamillman.wordpress.com<\/p>\nAndreas Gursky<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\n![\"Daniel](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Daniel-Joseph-Martinez-Museum-Tags-Second-Movement-overture-or-Overture-...-kadist.tumblr.com_edit.jpg\")
Daniel Joseph Martinez “Museum Tags Second Movement Overture or Overture” kadist.tumblr.com<\/p>\nDaniel Joseph Martinez<\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\n![\"Douglas](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/douglasgordonPretty-Much-Every-Film-and-Video-Work-From-About-1992_edit.jpg\")
Douglas Gordon “Pretty Much Every Film and Video work from about 1992” Image from artfund.org<\/p>\nDouglas Gordon<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\n![\"Mike](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/theredlist.com-Mike-Kelley-Deodorized-Central-Mass-with-Satellites-1991-1999_edit.jpg\")
Mike Kelley “Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites 1991-1999” Image from theredlist.com<\/p>\nMike Kelley<\/h3>\n
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\n <\/p>\n![\"Vanessa](\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Vanessa-Beecroft-VB-35-April-23-1998-nytimes.com_edit.jpg\")
Vanessa Beecroft “Vb 35”, 1998. Image from nytimes.com<\/p>\nVanessa Beecroft<\/a><\/h3>\n
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