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Inspired by with Andi Fisher

German artist @andi___fischer works with oil stick and pencil to created paintings, drawings and sculptures that use a childlike aesthetic to unpick ideas around Western art history.

For Contxt, he chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspires him.

A.B.:Insight from 2014 is painting by the late artist Thomas Zipp, whose practice fused pop-culture and belief in an all encompassing pseudo-scientific tableau.

Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brandt is a 1494 satirical verse allegory with attributed woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer describing over a hundred human follies loaded onto a “ship of fools”.

The feature film The Naked Gun released in 1988 is a spoof comedy starring Leslie Nielsen as a bumbling police Lieutenant.

‘Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’ by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah awss the breakout single from the band’s 2005 self-released debut album, featuring yelping vocals over a lo-fi, hand-clap.

Andi Fisher’s exhibition ‘Ship of Fools – umherirren’ is on show @vonbartha in Basel until October 23.

Image: Andi Fischer, Ohne Titel, (2026), colored-Pencil on paper

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Inspired by with Joanna Piotrowska

Joanna Piotrowska @janka_piotrowska is a London-based Polish artist best known for photographic, performance and film work examining the human condition and gesture using archives including self-defence manuals and psychotherapy guides.

For Contxt she chose an artwork book film and piece of music that informs her work.

Taína H. Cruz’s If and When They Come She’ll Be Ready is a graffiti-inspired site specific wall drawing created in 2026 for the Whitney Biennial.

Sophie Calle’s True Stories pairs short stories with photographs, blurring the line between fiction and reality.

Motivated by the director Carla Simón’s own family, Alcarràs (2022) follows a Catalan peach-farming family’s last summer on land they’re about to lose.

No I Won’t is by Evans Pyramid, the alter ego of Andre Evons, a seasoned performer and session player in the 1970s known for his disco and boogie sound.

Piotrowska has a solo exhibition opening @phillidareid October 8.

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Inspired by Philipp Timischl

Philipp Timischl @philippphilipp is a Paris-based Austrian artist working with video, sculpture, painting and photography, often combined with text, that touch on ideas around class, queerness and power.

For Contxt, he chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspires him
Isa Genzken’s sculpture Rose III created in 2007 has been the image on TImischl phone background since his iPhone 7 in 2016.

Timischl owes giving up smoking to Allen Carr’s book Easy Ways to Stop Smoking, which has sold millions of copies since its publication in 1985.

NAZA by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is an investigative documentary examining the civilian casualties of Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

DJ Billybool aka Thaiboy Digital, is a Thai rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer. His trance mix ‘The Effect Mix’ is available on soundcloud.

Timischl’s upcoming monograph, published by Road House, will be release in October 2026.

Image: (Broken Painting), 2024, Mixed media on canvas, LED Panels, video 1’23’’

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Inspired by with Aramis Navarro

@aramis.navarro is a Swiss artist working with ideas around belief, mysticism, algorithms and neural networks.

For Contxt, he chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that inspires him.

Las Meninas (1656) is a portrait of the Spanish royal court by Diego Velázquez, known for its unusual take on perspective, mirrors, and the act of painting.

Erik Davis’s book Techgnosis from 1998, examines hthe relationship between the occult and spiritual to technology and media throughout history.

Spike Jonze’s 2013 film Her is a melancholic sci-fi film about a man who falls in love with an intelligent operating system.

truisms 4 dummies is a 2023 track by Headache mixing ambient electronic and artificial voice poetry.

Navarro’s work is on show until Nov 18 @doppelganger.gallery in St Gallen.

Image: Aramis Navarro Ratking, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Photo E.

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Inspired by with UVA

Matt Clark, the founder of @unitedvisualartists , is an artist working with perception and physical experience using light, code, sound, and movement.

For Contxt, he chose an artwork, book, album and film that inspires him.

Artwork: Tino Sehgal, This Variation, first created in 2012, is an intentionally undocumented performance work that take place entirely in darkness. The viewer only experience bodies, sound and a sense of ritual around them.

Book. Lawrence Weschler’s book on Robert Irwin, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (published in 1982), tells the story of how the artist moved beyond the canvas, traditional media and gallery itself.

Record: Plastikman’s 1998 album Consumed showcases his sculptural and spatial on minimalist techno.

Film: Adam Curtis, a former collaborator of UVA, released the documentary All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace in 2011, suggesting that computers have failed to liberate humanity and reduced our view of existence.

Clark has just finished collaborating with Massive Attack on their recent Asia tour on the stage visuals and is working towards a solo show at bitforms in New York in spring 2027.

Image UVA, Vanishing Point (2019). Courtesy of the artist.

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Inspired by with Angelo Plessas

@angeloplessas is a Greek artist who creates neon, quilt, performances, websites and installation exploring the intersection of technology and the sprititual.

For Contxt, he chose an artwork, book, film and piece of music that informs his work,

Liliane Lijn’s Conjunction of Opposites: Lady of the Wild Things and Woman of War is a kinetic sculpture created in 1986, consisting of two giant characters that perform a six minute theatrical drama with sound, light and lasers.

Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino is a book of twelve short stories by Italo Calvino written in 1965, containing poetic tales of galaxies, the moon and molluscs among other topics.

Mexican director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal feature film The Holy Mountain following a Christ-like thief who joins a group of powerful figures on a hallucinatory, symbol-laden quest up a sacred mountain to steal the secret of immortality.

Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia is an electronic album released in 1976 intended as music for plants to listen to.

@angeloplessas has upcoming exhibitions in Turkey, Latvia and the United States

Image: Angelo Plessas, The Hand of the Noosphere(Attention), 2026. Courtesy the artist

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Inspired by with Emily Mae Smith

@emaesmith is a New York based artist known for painting fusing surrealism and pop through the lens of feminism and the questioning of power structure.

For Contxt, she chose an artwork, book, film and album that informs her work.

The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche hanging in London’s @NationalGallery, is a a large-scale history painting imagining the 1554 execution of the 16-year-old queen, blindfolded and led to her execution.

Doppelganger by @NaomiKlein is a non fiction book exploring the years of being confused online with feminist turned conservative writer Naomi Wolf, as a lens on conspiracy culture, the far right, and politics.

Terrence Malick’s 1978, feature film Days of Heaven follows a Chicago laborer played by Richard Gere, his lover, and a dying wealthy farmer Sam Shepard in a love triangle shot in natural light.

Willie Nelson’s album Teatro, released in 1998, reworks older Nelson songs into moody, Spanish-guitar arrangements, with Emmylou Harris in vocal harmony.

Emily Mae Smith’s solo show opens @petzelgallery in New York September 17 and runs until October 24.

Image: Emily Mae Smith, The Locust II, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Petzel, New York. Photo: Jason Mandella.

@williienelsonofficial

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Inspired by… with @trevorpaglen

Trevor Paglen is an artist from the United States unpicking the relationship betwee art, technology, the visible and the unseen rooted in the geopolitical and romantic sublime.

For Contxt, he chose an artwork, a book, a film and a record that inspires him.

Artwork - The engraving St Jerome in His Study by Albrecht Dürer created around 1514 is an image of the Christian scholar in harmony at work in the context of a typical 16th century study with allegorical animals in the foreground.

Book - The Nag Hammadi Library (created in the 3rd-4th Century) is a series of Gnostic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945, containing fragments attributed to Jesus Christ.

Film - Artist Tony Conrad’s experimental 1966 film „The Flicker“ is an abstract monochrome work that created stroboscopic effects, produced by Jonas Mekas and influenced by the writing of William Burroughs.

Album - Souls at Zero is the third album by Neurosis released in 1992 on Jello Biafra’s label Alternative Tentacles. It sits at the intersection of post-metal sludge and hardcore punk.

Trevor Paglen’s solo exhibition ‘The most merciful thing in the world’ opens at @fotofocuscincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 1.

Artist Image: Trevor Paglen, KEYHOLE 12-3 (IMPROVED CRYSTAL) Optical Reconnaissance Satellite Near Scorpio (USA 129), 2007. Courtesy of the artist.

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Introducing How to Look at Paintings

An tool that tells you about the details of some of the worlds most famous artworks. Link in Bio

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Thanks for coming out and coming to the launch of my latest work „Empathy - Songs For The Modern Heart“. It was a blast!

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Discover Contxt NYC – your guide to art in New York, with curated selections from FITZ & CO.

Learn more at the link in bio.

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Too many shows in Venice? Try contxt.art/venice

190+ exhibitions at a glance with a curated section by @fitzandco. Includes a map for easy navigation and Ask Contxt to find exhibitions by theme.

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