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[7] Also in 1989, Image World: Art and Media Culture, an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, examined the role of mass media imagery in contemporary art from the 1950s to the 1980s, with the Pictures Generation artists playing a prominent role.

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Control — Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn (2009, Josh Whiteman) Internationally renowned artist and filmmaker Anton Corbijn has created some of his generation's seminal rock images.

Many of his works play with the forms of utilitarian objects and take a «finish fetish» approach to commercial and industrial materials not typically used by artists of his generation.

Frowned upon by generations of art historians as the last expression of irrationality (as opposed to perfect perspective) the primitive painters played a pivotal role in bridging Medieval styles with the resurgence of classicism characteristic of Renaissance artists and architects.

A Selection of American Art: Minimalism and After, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue) The Kitchen Art Benefit, Curt Marcus & Leo Castelli Galleries, New York Re-Framing Cartoons, Loughelton Gallery, New York Grids, Vrej Baghoonian Gallery, New York Modern Detour / Umweg Moderne: R.M. Fischer, Peter Halley, Laurie Simmons, Wiener Secession, Vienna (catalogue) The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Weitersehen 1980 — 1990, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (catalogue) Mel Bochner, Peter Halley, Robert Rauschenberg, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Classical Modernism: Six Generations, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Peter Halley, Annette Lemieux, Meyer Vaisman, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Galerie Carola Moesh, Berlin 1989 Nonrepresentation: The Show of the Essay, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York (catalogue); travelled to Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles (curated by Jeremy Gilbert - Rolfe, catalogue) Horn of Plenty, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue) Buena Vista, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Collins & Milazzo, catalogue) Abstraction in Question, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (catalogue); travelled to Center for the Fine Arts, Miami Paula Cooper Gallery, New York A Climate of Site, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Science — Technology — Abstraction: Art at the End of the Decade, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH (catalogue) Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (catalogue) Re-Presenting the 80s, Simon Watson Gallery, New York (catalogue) Ten + Ten: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX; travelled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Artists» Union Hall of the Tretyakov, Krymskaia Embankment, Moscow, USSR; State Picture Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic; Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad, USSR (catalogue) The Silent Baroque, Villa Arenberg, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (catalogue) New Editions, Pace Prints, New York Psychological Abstraction, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (catalogue) Exposition Inaugurale, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musée Temporaire, Fréjus, France (catalogue) Wittgenstein: The Play of the Unsayable, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria; travelled to Palais des Beaux - Arts, Brussels (catalogue) Abstraction — Geometry — Painting, Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; travelled to Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue) New Work by Gallery Artists: John Baldessari, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ashley Bickerton, Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Fischli + Weiss, Gilbert & George, Peter Halley, Barry Le Va, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman, Terry Winters, Robert Yarber, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool: Four Artists from New York, Kunstverein, Munich (catalogue) Projects and Portfolios: The 25th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue) Recent Acquisitions, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Buena Vista, John Gibson Gallery, New York

Golden speaks of Ligon's efforts in encouraging a new generation of artists, mentioning the behind - the - scenes role he played in organizing Freestyle, an exhibition of emerging talent mounted by the Studio Museum in 2001.

Paintings by Li Songsong and Mao Yan will highlight the role these two artists play as interlocutors of their generation in contemporary China.

Decoding the roles that images play in an image - oriented culture, the work of Pictures Generation artists seems even more relevant than it ever was.

Exploring and questioning contemporary life through visual imagery, the approach of Pictures Generation artists is particularly relevant in understanding our current image - oriented culture and decoding the roles that images play as forms of representation, as icons, and as symbols.

Oehlen is an artist who consistently questions and plays with the conventions of painting and his works are influential to a generation of painters working today.

Nowadays, Alex is still very active as an author [8] and plays the role of a conceptual guiding star to many younger generation artists such as Elizabeth Peyton and Julian Opie.

The title of Nauman's piece, itself a cropped representation of the artist's arms tied behind his back, plays on a deadpan joke of literal interpretation while referencing the domino effect as new generations of artists (sculptors emerging in the 1960s, in this case) take precedence over their elders (the titular Henry Moore).

From Salvador Dalí to Sophie Calle, Paris has played muse to countless artists for generations.

The Impressionists inspired a generation of American artists interested in the play of shadow and light, with varied and innovative results.

Louise Lawler is one of the great light - heavyweights of the 1980s Pictures Generation, an artist of stealth, wit and elegant understatement, adept at playing the art world against itself.

Sherman's early works were undoubtedly important during an era in which identity politics played such a crucial role in contemporary art and it's true that the Pictures Generation's critique of media laid the ground for so many of today's artists.

Bringing together Old Masters and contemporary artists whose work spans more than 350 years, Creating the Countryside provokes reflection on the artistic, social and political forces that have played an important role in forming successive generations» perceptions of this «green and pleasant land».

Artist's Biography Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977, Baia Mare) belongs to a generation that has demonstrated its ability to lucidly reflect upon the difficult and often traumatic underpinningsof local histories.The use of a nuanced examination of how the contemporary is shaped by memory and desire, convulsion and spectacle, plays a central part in his work.

Furthermore, Tillmans has transformed the understanding of photographic exhibition making through his daring and original installations, playing with scale, formats, framing and presentation to produce immersive experiences that have inspired subsequent generations of artists.»

From making sculptures out of melted LPs, to creating album covers and music videos, to playing in their own bands, a new generation of artists is blurring the distinction between the worlds of pop music and fine art.

Teresita Fernández, one of the most accomplished artists of her generation, is recognized for her deft ability to transform common materials and processes into dazzling cinematic illusions, blending abstraction, reflection, and transparency into potent configurations of projection and play.

VIKKY ALEXANDER: THE SPOILS OF THE PARK Mar 2 - May 19, 2018 FINAL WEEK In the 1980s Alexander played a significant role in the group of artists now known as «The Pictures Generation», who posed a new set of questions concerning art and the nature of representation.

He too mentions the influence of television, particularly, the MTV, a station whose special effects play a considerable role and to which artists of his generation have contributed.Tony Oursler animates non-living objects with the use of projectors.

More recently, Gisela Colon, who has been recognized in ArtForum as a next generation light and space artist, has created «irregularly shaped wall mounted acrylic orbs... scarab - like objects achieve their iridescence via the play of natural light, yet the sculptures appear to change color as one moves around them, as if lit by multihued bulbs.»

In this exhibition, Xu Zhen plays the trickster once again by presenting paintings, sculptures and installations by a «new generation» of Middle Eastern artists.

Compared to the artists of the Pictures Generation, artists like me might appear more comfortable playing with the material aspects of media images, even fascinated with them, for example, taking a painterly approach to editing and compositing video footage.

Light has played a central role in art history: generations of artists have attempted to capture it in their work.

She attended the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where, like other artists of her generation, she encountered the instructor and abstract painter Elizabeth McIntosh, whose fresh and expansive approach to abstract painting has played a critical role in Mouton's art.

Other works on view include a suite of watercolors by Guo Hongwei, combining his renderings of American iconography with his father's calligraphy of Chinese classical poems; Chen Wei's staged photographs in the traditions of Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman; a thick - imexhibitionso floral - patterned diptych by Liang Yuanwei, exhibitionsly featured in the Chinese pavilion at the 54th Biennale di Venezia; Cheng Ran's romantically staged photos of the Hollywood sign, commenting on the role cinema has played in shaping the image of America in the psyche of younger Chinese generations; the American premiere of Sun Xun's 21 Grams, a four - year long animation project reflecting on history, social struggles and dystopia; and Hu Xiangqian's Art Museum, a video presentation of the «collection» of Western artworks that have inspired the artist's creative language but that he's never seen in person or fully understood.

Rather than play into the curatorial hype in portraying the emerging generation of Chinese artists — a exhibitions trend in the international art world — Catch the Moon in the Water reverses these roles to illustrate how this young cohort's imagining of America has influenced their work.

Body Talk addresses issues of feminism, sexuality and the body, as they play themselves out in the work of a generation of women artists from Africa active since the late 1990s.

(catalogue) Persona, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Switzerland 1995 It's How You Play The Game, Exit Art, New York; curated by Thelma Golden, Nancy Spector, Robert Storr, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo Strung Into the Appolonian Dream... an exhibition of a private collection, Feature, NYC, NY Seven Llongish Wodden Sculptures, Feature, New York, NY 1994 The Ecstasy of Limits, Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, UIC, Chicago, IL Amenities, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee 1993 A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Shiffler, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Urbana - Champaign, IL; I Space, University of Urbana - Champaign Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1991 Office Party, (March) Feature, New York, NY Power: Its Icons, Myths and Structure in American Culture 1961 - 1991, Museum of Fine Art, Richmond VA: curated by Holliday T. Day (catalogue) 1990 Toward the Future Contemporary Art in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Awards in the Visual Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Southeastern The Thing Itself, Feature, New York, NY (brochure) New Generations Chicago, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; curated by Elaine A. King (catalogue) Half - Truths, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY; curated by Marge Goldwater 1989 On Kawara: Date Paintings 1966 - 1988, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Signs of Life: Contemporary American Sculpture, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian; Fundacao Luso - Americana Para O Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Judith Russi Kirshner.

Victor Pinchuk, the Ukrainian businessman who has played a big role in bringing the art to Venice, says: «The young generation of artists we have been supporting for many years started the future Ukraine already long ago — independent, uncompromising, critically reflective.

Through a wide variety of artistic practices and artists (from Claude Cahun to LaToya Ruby Frazier, from Gilbert & George to Cindy Sherman, and from Alighiero Boetti to Maurizio Cattelan) coming from different cultures and backgrounds, generations and experiences, it reflects on the contrast between different approaches: melancholy and vanity, ironic games played with identity and political autobiography, existential rumination and the body as sculpture, effigy or fragment, and its symbolical representation.

Installation view September 10 — October 30, 2010 As the Cedar Tavern played a role in the formation of abstract expressionism, Max's Kansas City galvanized a younger generation of artists from when it opened in 1965 to when it closed its doors in 1974.