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Beuys formulated the theory of Social Sculpture which empowered art with the ability to shape society, to which each individual could contribute, as expressed in his oft - quoted maxim, «Everyone is an artist».

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As far as painting specifically is concerned, Mrs. Ellis finds that it has one immediate advantage for the young lady over its rival branch of artistic activity, music — it is quiet and disturbs no one (this negative virtue, of course, would not be true of sculpture, but accomplishment with the hammer and chisel simply never occurs as a suitable accomplishment for the weaker sex); in addition, says Mrs. Ellis, «it [drawing] is an employment which beguiles the mind of many cares... Drawing is, of all other occupations, the one most calculated to keep the mind from brooding upon self, and to maintain that general cheerfulness which is a part of social and domestic duty... It can also,» she adds, «be laid down and resumed, as circumstance or inclination may direct, and that without any serious loss.»

New York - based artist Patrick Meagher's installation that other modern world (2000 — 2002), which references architecture and modern social structures, is a collection of individual sculptures made from expanded bead - Styrofoam.

Presenting approximately 60 sculptures, paintings and works on paper in dialogue with one another, these shows highlight the varied formal, social and political concerns that informed the significant series — neither of which were actually named «Constellations» by the artists themselves.

The artist's slumpies series of ergonomic sculptures are designed for this contemporary moment in which physical posture, and thereby social engagement, are ontologically inseparable from increased technology use.

Presented in tandem with his monumental outdoor sculpture Playboy Marfa, which will be installed outside Dallas Contemporary, Phillips's first U.S. solo museum exhibition will feature both past and new works that emphasize his career - long exploration of political and social identity, consumerism, eroticized desire and social constructs.

24/7 will include Perry's major works in drawing, sculpture, collage, installation, video, photography, and social media - some of which has been created specifically for this exhibition.

While he is well - known for works featuring his own social milieu — often depicting parties, portraits of friends and fellow artists, and, perhaps most notably, his wife Ada, who has been his model and muse for decades — the landscape of Maine, which he first encountered as a resident at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1949 - 50, has been a central point of reference throughout his career.

Simone Leigh's sculpture, as well as her recent social practice — related work, such as The Free People's Medical Clinic (2014) and The Waiting Room (2016), locates experiential activities geared toward communities of color within museums and art galleries, which are sometimes viewed as elitist by the general public.

It's thanks to Nasher Sculpture Center director Jeremy Strick, who visited Chalet Hollywood several times over the course of its run, that Golia's social structure comes to Dallas this month, to explore a problem LA and Dallas have in common; how do you create a sense of community in a city which has so many both natural and self - imposed silos?

Yet while the official art - historical narrative of that generation — Basbaum's peers include Beatriz Milhazes, Leonilson and Barrão, who came of age during the emergence of Brazilian democracy — highlights an almost postpolitical identity in which art is primarily a mode of self - expression as opposed to a form of social consciousness, Basbaum's sculptures, drawings, photographs and actions see the artist tie self - affirmation to the notion of the (still) political subject.

The choreography of these sculptures is accompanied by a pulsating sound track and text statements, collaged from celebrated male authors, which collapse the distinctions between art objects and social history artefacts, and the strange and compulsive desires of consumerism.

This sculpture (which was shown in Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery in 2002 and at Tate Britain in 2004) became a type of symbol for the social process of the public art project.

Their relationships to social, political and philosophical expressions of feminism are as diverse as their work in sculpture, painting, drawing, video, installation, collage, assemblage and the wearable — yet all six directly consider the literal and allegorical ways in which the female body occupies both physical and semantic space in the modern world.

Known for his innovative adaptions of traditional Haitian iconography, which he engages in order to address contemporary social and political conditions, Duval - Carrié is presenting a series of large - scale paintings and sculptures.

The engagement with postmodern dance gave rise to a significant constant within his sculptural works: The investigation of an inclusion of the viewer which focuses on the temporal perception of sculpture by means of bodily movement through space, and which furthermore directs the view from the institutional space out onto social aspects in the real world.

The bringing to light of a processual artistic activity, such as Morris called for in his theoretical texts Notes on Sculpture, Part 1 - 4 (1966 - 69) and Anti-Form (1968), likewise addresses the social context of production and labor, a perspective which is also to be seen against the background of the institutional criticism of Concept Art as well as the social expectations during the 1970s with regard to art production.

Adam Kleinman and Cally Spooner offer contemporary responses to themes including social sculpture, global politics and the production of reality, which resonate with Latham's understanding of time and history.

Of note are works like Monument for Living in Defeat (2016), which plays with the staging of sculpture, painting, and pedestals, and Ornamental Composition for Social Spaces 1 (2016), which relates pre-modern architecture to Suprematist painting.

Her practice encompasses a wide range of supports — including painting, video, sculpture, photography and installation — , through which she investigates certain power structures that underlie social and economic ties.

Participants will have a role in determining the form of the book and its contents, which may include photographic documentation, scholarly texts and interviews that contextualize McCabe's residency and the practice of «social sculpture».

Now, despite the context of the selfie age, where the face and body of every Tom or Mary are splashed all over social media, Emin's self portraits — which range from now - iconic neon signage to sensuous nudes spanning sculpture, painting, and embroidery — still stand out for their honesty.

Establishing a virtuous circle between fine art and social progress, Gates strips dilapidated buildings of their components, transforming those elements into sculptures that act as bonds or investments, the proceeds of which are used to finance the rehabilitation of entire city blocks.

The liberal beliefs, social tolerance, and general promiscuity that characterize popular images of the city likewise distinguish the Los Angeles — based artist's own permissive practice, which swings from abstract paintings to collages and from haunted - house sculptures to a series of narrative paintings depicting sexually ambiguous men whom Hawkins refers to as «hallucinations from a Viagra overdose.»

Ligon's paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources — literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs — to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society.

Her practice, which includes paintings, sculptures, poetry, performance, explores the influence on technology and social media on our lives and language.

In the late 1960s, artist Joseph Beuys came up with the concept of «social sculpture», which essentially gave art the power to change society.»

His work, which includes sculpture, installation, performance, and photography, investigates the mediation of constructed identity in social arenas and subsequent dislocation.

Presenting text - based video and sculpture, the included works negotiate the social conditions through which sound is produced, exchanged, and absorbed.

His sculpture, drawing, installation and provocative live - action works were matched in their intensity only by his voracious social politics — which heavily influenced his work.

Crist's practice focuses on sculpture - both social and object - based - which touch on subjects of appropriation, practicality, place - making and the assessment of value.

Playful and celebratory, Amalia Pica's sculpture and works on paper — many of which will be shown in the UK for the first time — explore some of the underlying social concerns that relate to our daily experience of life.

Additional works in the exhibition include Thirty - eight works by Andy Warhol, four bronze sculptures depicting figures who are part human, animal and machine by William Kentridge illustrating social and political life in South Africa; and Olafur Eliasson's Fivefold Sphere Projection Lamp which compels us to view ourselves in relation to space as well as time.

Over a thirty year career, Kudo, who worked in France and Japan, developed an extremely complex body of sculpture, installation, and performance - based work in reaction both to World War II and Japan's subsequent transformation into an industrial society and to European Humanism which, he believed, abetted environmental degradation and social malaise.

This solo exhibition tries to build a relationship with the audience's physical presence, expanding Bul's ideas in a more architectural way as opposed to her previous sculpture series Cyborgs, which focused on the idea of individuality and identity locked within social phenomena.

«At this moment, when the environment and culture are so under threat, Huyghe's imaginative, uncanny approach to the serious ecological and social issues facing our planet tie his oeuvre to the ancient purposes of sculpture: they possess a shamanistic quality which tips the mimetic into life,» Mr. Strick added.

The wide variety of materials that constitute the exhibition (including collections of photographs, slide projections, periodicals, recent film and video installations, sculptures, and printed works on paper) create numerous situations within which to consider not only the materiality of images and the technologies that form their reception, but also the conflicted social history that lies under their surfaces and is inextricable from their origins.

The Deluge Group is creating a mobile sculpture trailer, which serves as a place of production and vehicle for the exhibition and sale of a wide range of art objects, trash constructions and objects of social parody, and other creative forms of exchange.

Her work is concerned with the social and spatial qualities of sculpture; how certain qualities of corporeality might be invested with spiritual meaning, and the precise point at which narratives might arise out of formal arrangements.

Sculptures, letters, drawings, film scripts and unwieldy social situations created as a result of this, are indexes of a larger structure through which Evans deliberately confuses the roles of artist and patron, author and muse.

Further locating the works within the social fabric of the city in which they exist, each sculpture will emit weather reports, cultural reportage, and music from different local radio stations transmitted through miniature radios projected from the sculpture.

Elijah Chair, a video sculpture on view in the new Goodkind Media Center, was created for the Times Square Seder, a public art and social action project which took place in New York in 2002.

Central to all of Shonibare's work, which includes sculpture, painting, photography, and film - making, is the debate about social, cultural, and political issues that shape history and constructs identity.

Famous for his often - quoted saying, «everyone is an artist,» Beuys sought to activate the intellectual and creative capacity in all human beings, culminating in his notion of «social sculpture,» in which the power of art is activated to transform society.

Aspects of American popular culture and the depiction of various social milieus have provided his work's repeatedly occurring and predominant imagery, which encompasses painting, photography, sculpture, and installation.

It was these sculptures which first received stenciled numbers and words that are emblematic of the varieties of social anxiety, such as «HUG,» or «ERR,» their compactness recalling the roadside signage that was the decor of his family's constant wandering.

Harold Ancart, born in 1980, is a Belgian artist who combines paintings, drawings, and mixed media sculptures into large installations that draw attention to the social and architectural condition of the space in which the work is exhibited.

Socrates Sculpture Park's 2015 Folly competition winner IK Studio designed Torqueing Spheres, which encourages social interaction with its intertwining and undulating sculpted forms.

His work, which spans across media to include sculpture, installation and painting, examines the borders between artistic practice, social reality and politics.

By incorporating a selection of memorabilia and design objects into the works that reinterpret the Interlocking Sculptures, the project expands this notion and approximates new aspects in which the formal becomes historical, whilst the exhibition itself becomes a sort of stage linking the aesthetic to the social and political.