Sentences with phrase «exhibition text just»

Not exact matches

In recent days I have posted on Facebook galleries of photos from recent exhibitions I've just seen, with a brief text which I typically write quickly, just enough to give readers a quick sense of the work.

From loneliness to collaboration, I ended up re-reading Cassavetes on Cassavetes (2001), a printed essay that was brought to my attention while curating a group exhibition, which, at its core, prompted the artists to question or evaluate their collaborative impulses.8 In the text, the director John Cassavetes writes plainly about how he works with actors: «I just think that you give somebody something they can do, and allow them to be a person.»

The excerpt above is just one of a list of instructions contained within the text of his 1974 piece Body Pressure, a title that shares a name with the expansive survey exhibition currently on view at the Hamburger Bahnhof, in Berlin.

The pairing of Marcel Broodthaers and Hanne Darboven in a single text would seem to favor the former's methods, which lampooned and utilized the idiosyncrasies and serendipities of surface and contingency that brought about such a pairing in the first place — which is to say the occurrence of two contemporaneous exhibitions in two major German institutions by two artists who dealt with issues of archive, text - as - image, and art - as - work just as these tropes have re-emerged as the historically available «next - big - thing.»

Just as reading a text is a journey from start to finish, the reading of an artwork and exhibition is dictated by the same process.

That quotation, which is included in the wall text of Hauser & Wirth's exhibition Philip Guston: Laughter in the Dark, Drawings from 1971 & 1975, gets at why this show seems so apt: just replace «magazines» with «Twitter,» and it's 2016.

In today's museum world, where competition for exhibition space is escalating, emptying two large rooms, painting them black, and then posting a text instructing the viewer on how to perceive a black painting is an ambitious conceptual gesture — one that becomes even more commanding in view of the fact that the exhibition's curator, Stephanie Rosenthal, limited her checklist for the show to just four American male heavyweights who made black paintings between 1945 and 1965.

Unlike the other new galleries, which are massive exposition engines designed by committees, this is a focused exhibition with a limited number of important and beautifully displayed objects with just the right amount of clear explanatory text.

His recent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, Road to War, was devoted to the post-9 / 11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; Spring Publications has just issued Counting the Last Days of the Sigmund Freud Banknote, containing reproductions of a series of text drawings made in 2001 - 02.