Sentences with phrase «dadaist exhibition»

The Polkes later settled in Düsseldorf, which proved to be an excellent incubator for a budding artist: it was the location of the first postwar Dadaist exhibition in 1958 and in the 1960s a local commercial gallery began showing the work of Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly.

Not exact matches

In the beginning of the»60s, Arman was still under a tremendous impression by the exhibition German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters held in 1954.

FRANCIS PICABIA: OUR HEADS ARE ROUND SO OUR THOUGHTS CAN CHANGE DIRECTION Picabia was on the ground with the Dadaists in Paris, but this exhibition includes his later work, which has influenced contemporary painters — perverse figurative paintings that look like precursors to Pop Art, or pulp fiction book covers.

The recent exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World (6 October 2017 — 7 January 2018), opened with numerous works by Huang dated to his early Dadaist years.

This experience probably reinforced his insight into the studies of light and the use of exhibition space and exposed him to the Impressionists, Colorists, Modernists, and Dadaists whose influences are made explicit in his work through his practice of leaving pieces untitled yet dedicated to artists including Mondrian, Brancusi, Jasper Johns, and Duchamp.

At first I thought it must be some kind of Dadaist event, an exhibition devoted to Arp and his notional family — because to a German - speaker, the word «Artschwager «could be construed as a bilingual neologism, a combination of the English word «art» and the German word «Schwager `, or in - laws.

After an interesting experiment with two - dimensional accumulations (Dadaist stamp prints dubbed «cachets») which he showed at a solo exhibition staged at Paris's trendy Galerie Iris Clert in 1958, Arman moved on to his «Coupes» and «Coleres» accumulations of objects which he cut into thin strips before smashing them to pieces in public, in a sort of action - packed performance art.

Commissioned to accompany Tate Britain's exhibition on the great German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, it comprised a film shown in mock - up of the Lake District cottage where a fictitious grandfather of Prouvost, a conceptual artist and supposed associate of Schwitters, spent his last years, making abominable pottery while trying to dig a tunnel to Africa.

At the museum's Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, large - scale bronze works will be on view, including Miffy Fountain (2008), a working fountain that co-opts the beloved children's book character created by Dutch author and illustrator Dick Bruna; a new edition of Sachs's bronze interpretation of a Buddhist stupa, Stupa (2012), created specifically for this exhibition; and Duralast (2008), a Dadaist construction from the artist's series of «battery towers,» comprising a stack of automobile batteries rendered in bronze.

The new group exhibition at Various Small Fires, Artificial Complexion, is inspired by the work of poet / artist / bohemian Baroness Elsa von Freytag - Loringhoven, an influential Dadaist figure who collaborated frequently with Man Ray and may have conceived Marcel Duchamp's infamous Fountain.

Los Angeles... Beginning 16 October, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel will present a comprehensive exhibition of the renowned Dadaists Kurt Schwitters (1887 — 1948) and Hans Arp (1886 — 1966), in the context of works by the Spanish painter, graphic artist and sculptor Joan Miró (1893 — 1983).

Tate Britain will on Wednesday open the first major exhibition examining the later work of a Dadaist artist now regarded as one of the true greats of 20th - century modernist art, whose abstract collages and concrete poetry were an enormous influence on later generations of artists.

The gallery also has a traveling exhibition titled «Schwitters Miró Arp,» that brings together works by renowned European Dadaists Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miró and Hans Arp.