Sentences with phrase «grotesque body»

Grotesque body parts are sitting on bird swings, biomorphic growths are clinging to the metal cage, a mold - covered hand is clutching one corner, and menacing looking plants are co-habitating with electric circuit boards.

Inspired by Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the grotesque body, Davidson has created a carnival filled with a horrifying yet alluring ensemble of sculptures, a space where envy, jealousy and the sinister roam free to create a sense of anxiety and uncertainty.

Regarding caricature, I love Mike Kelly's essay Foul Perfection: Thoughts on Caricature, in which he examines modernism's negatively coded position about the grotesque body and «low culture».

His work has been included in group exhibitions around the world including Greater New York, P.S. 1, NYC; Adaptive Behavior, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC; I am a Camera, The Saatchi Collection, London; Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Make It Now, The Sculpture Center, New York; Portugal Arte 10, Portugal Biennial, Lisbon; Wild Exaggeration, The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; and others.

2009 Arena Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico Bad Habits, Albright - Know Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Curated by Heather Pesanti Glitterati, Headquarters, New York, NY, Curated by Thomas Woodruff and Aaron Cobbett LOVER, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY, Curated by Kate Gilmore & Candice Madey Glamour Bomb, Parlor Gallery, New Jersey, NJ hit it big, Mason Gross School of the Arrs, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Wild Exaggeration, The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

Most of all, it is a novel that exploits expectation, flipping archetypes on their head with an obese heroine who falls in love with a dainty boy who, try as he might, can not separate her enchanting mind from her grotesque body in order to love her back.

In Saville's work I find the grotesque bodies, bold marks and gestures extremely compelling and inspiring.

Not exact matches

Grotesque piles of dozens of bodies were being burnt in the open without dignity or religious rites like so many carcasses.

The world that Garland has created here, constantly defamiliarised by impossible mutations, is a surreal place, natural seeming yet painted and sculpted with grotesque Dalí-esque flourishes and the odd flash of body horror.

The film has the odd interesting loose - end, uses music unpredictably and it is properly grotesque in places, such as the first scene in which we see the Brufort family chewing on the various limbs and body parts of their victims.

Left with little to work with in the historical record, they instead turn their villains» bodies into grotesques: Spall's pathetic moustache tells us all we'll ever know about Shakespeare's fraudulence, while Thewlis is dumped under a pound of old - man makeup and parked in a rickety wheelchair, so you know he's bad news.

I couldn't take my eyes off The Stick; he's the type of grotesque non-sequitur that Student Bodies could use more of.

The body and its myriad eccentricities is less a beautiful mystery than a grotesque inconvenience.

Unfortunately, the dog - years conundrum turns him into a middle - aged sleazebag with a potbelly and Dan Hedaya's body hair — a fact grotesque enough in and of itself that's compounded by Spot not changing out of his little boy's clothes for the first few minutes of his transformation.

The aliens are portrayed as ugly monsters with no redeeming qualities — their deaths are graphically depicted with grotesque images and abundant body fluids.

His creative world is populated by grotesque creatures, trimmed with a hocus pocus collection of vampires, bats and spiders, littered with bare - boned figures and dismembered body parts, threatened by an evil Oogie Boogie Man, (voice of Ken Page), and decorated with depictions of female victimization, torture and poisoning.

They were the most grotesque looking things because they sculpted the actor's faces so perfectly it really looks like the half eaten body of Eric Christian Olsen laying in some warehouse, it's kind of disturbing.»

Flesh and blood Videogames — even the most grotesque, violent ones — have a tendency to overstate the resilience of the human body.

Videogames — even the most grotesque, violent ones — have a tendency to overstate the resilience of the human body.

The player must solve puzzles, which range from simple lever pulling to more grotesque displays of body horror — each made even more unsettling by its banality.

As stupidly obvious as they may sound, heeding them is easier said than done when you're trying to solve devious block puzzles with an oppressive time limit and a grotesque mess of body parts constantly on your case.

If the paintings conjured a massive presence, I thought at the time, the language of modeling would operate as an authority figure attempting to bind the more wildly associative or grotesque imagery, usually referring to the human body.

Her work often explores contemporary discourse on the body, feminism, sexuality, the grotesque, and the domestic sphere.

Degas, on the contrary, emphasized the grotesque, even abject aspect of the naked body.

Often tending towards the grotesque, Bhabha's sculptural works and photo - based drawings feature bodies that appear dissected and dismembered, but one can likewise view them as monuments to human life reclaimed from the detritus of a post-apocalyptic landscape.

Comparatively, Mandy El - Sayegh (b. 1985) explores the dichotomy of the human body, using biology as a base for her often grotesque artworks, which become fake, living documents.

Kenyan - born Wangechi Mutu combines fashion magazine imagery and ink to create elegantly grotesque collages of the female body.

A remarkable performer, Sherman reconfigures her face and body for the camera — either through subtle distortions or grotesque prosthetics — to render herself all but unrecognizable to the audience.

People like Kiki Smith and Robert Gober and others were dealing with the body, with the grotesque and abject, but she had been dealing with those subjects all along.

ARTIST STATEMENT «The piece is a play on simple vaudeville style adverts that toys with the idea of human interest in viewing the grotesque; in this case, a bloody boxer, black man with a west African rhino head, broken horn in mouth, bloody / bruised face + body, in a classic boxing pose.

For instance, holding a sheet of glass against her flesh, squeezing her body parts against the glass and smashing her face, breasts, hips, buttocks and stomach onto the surface from various angles, Woodman distorts her physical features making them appear grotesque.

More recently Cindy Sherman has constructed scenes and photographs showing herself as characters from the grotesque and horror imagination, surrounded by discarded food, human body parts and rubbish.

Substance abuse and surface abuse seem to solidify in these examples of domestic body horror, both erotic and grotesque, perverse and affirmative.

Metamorphosis and hybridism emerge as recurring motifs in the exhibition, from the grotesque actors in the drawings of Schröder - Sonnenstern to Enrico David's amorphous bodies.

In the studio, her organic forms become anthropomorphic, resulting in sculptures and paintings that are both humorous and grotesque, existing in a space between the artifice of lo - fi movie props and the reality of our fragile bodies.

Doreen Garner's work identifies, mines and exploits the tissues that bind the sexual and the grotesque, specifically regarding the black female body.

In her work, Doreen Garner examines the sensual and the grotesque, specifically regarding the black female body.

The nude body, and its potential to morph into something uncanny or grotesque, is a continual subject of Yamashita Kikuji's phantasmagorical paintings.

In her work, the body — as a whole or in parts — becomes a dynamic point of sensation and convergence as materials collide, swell, and mutate into powerful, often grotesque, associations.

Paul McCarthy, Sweet Roll Body Smear, Piccadilly Circus, London, 2003 Body Politic: The Anatomy of the Grotesque surveys the ways in which contemporary artists have used the grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on beauty, sexuality, Grotesque surveys the ways in which contemporary artists have used the grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on beauty, sexuality, grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on beauty, sexuality, and race.

The exhibition promises a reclamation of the often grotesque historical image of femininity in order to imagine the ups and downs of our relationship to our bodies in a cybernetic world.

Consistent with Djongarski's grotesque figurative style, the body is slightly dysmorphic: beautiful but gnarled.

«Maisie Cousins is a London - based photographer who looks at the female body and nature and its relationship between the grotesque and beautiful.

explores, with grotesque humor and fantasy, the free movement of genes, body parts, biological mechanisms, and power when the boundaries that define ecosystems dissolve.

As artists we all share interests, each dealing with the body in erotic, grotesque and humorous ways.

Looking at chocolate as a material in contemporary art, this exhibition was richly engaged with consumption, the body, the grotesque, antiform, the organic, waste, and taste.

Getting back to the actual exhibition, Lester — not unlike Nathaniel Mellors before him, minus the grotesque — envisioned the whole gallery space as a continuous body, installing a styrofoam corridor that channels the visitors through the rooms and occasionally curls up to embrace some of the artworks on show.

Smith considers the body in her work to be a grotesque portal between public and private life.

Jenny Saville, «Ancestors» Opening: 6 — 8 p.m., Gagosian, 522 West 21st Street What you should know: YBA painter Jenny Saville hasn't had a New York solo in some seven years, so your appetite should by now be whetted for her grotesque depictions of bodies under duress, pressed against the canvas as a pane of glass, or grotesquely overweight, all recalling her countryman Lucian Freud's hungry paintings of abject flesh.

While these emerging artists clearly share a fascination with the everyday, the most striking common aspect of their practices is an uncanny, subtly grotesque emphasis on the body as it assumes the forms of (or interacts with) household objects.