Sentences with phrase «tableaux pictures»

Since its long anticipated reopening in September 2012 the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam has served up some fine shows: The Mike Kelley retrospective was, if somewhat airtight, quite comprehensive, and Jeff Wall's Tableaux Pictures Photographs 1996 - 2013 could easily compete with the grand overview nine years ago at Tate Modern.

Tableaux Pictures Photographs — Works from 1996 - 2013.

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It's a lot like Jonas Akerlund's repugnant and identically unwatchable Spun: pretty girls playing at ugly in a picture more interested in tableaux than in coherence.

Smart as hell and unapologetically surreal, its central motivating image is a tableaux vivant of Henry Fuseli's «The Nightmare,» tipping off not just the ethos of the film, but also that there may be running threads concerning mothers (Fuseli was Mary Wollstonecraft's lover), monsters (Mary being the mother of Mary «Frankenstein» Shelley), the empowerment of women (the mother again), nightmares, of course, and maybe Romanticism, if only in the picture's awareness and perversion of nature.

A series of set - ups without punchlines that compensate for the deficiency by featuring a truly impressive number of random de-pantsings, people caught in unlikely tableaux that are inevitably mistaken for some sort of sexual deviancy, and a stable of stock characters so locked into their exploitative roles that existential questions of predestination and choice tickle at making the picture interesting.

Find in that explanation for a wildfire metaphor that looms throughout the picture, coming to a head in a few surreal tableaux of Abel framed against a blood red sky.

Changing Lanes evokes the monumentalism that should inhabit every metaphor of social caste systems in the placement and blocking of characters in Michell's widescreen tableaux; the picture is a triumph in look and feel and an actors» workshop.

It feels desperate to cover every imaginable base, nowhere more so than during a ridiculous curtain call that sees Frodo mouthing our heroes» names as they saunter half - time into a sun - kissed Serrault, the picture's romantic tableaux not nearly so affecting this time around as they have been in the past.

The picture's chiaroscuro tableaux brazenly paraphrase Edward Hopper, for instance, and lest there be any doubt about artistic intentionality, the two lost souls at the centre of this chamber piece arrange to meet at Nighthawks Diner.

Compare these tableaux morts to a brief interlude early in the picture when three pairs of refugees speak to one another about sex, death, and addiction.

War of the Worlds is a work of obvious genius that is about nothing, which is an amazing and disheartening thing to say because so much of the picture is composed of jaw - dropping — I mean it, it's astonishing — Holocaust tableaux mixed with 9/11 imagery.

Arguably one of the most unique events in the world, this eye - popping pageant presents tableaux vivants («living pictures»), ultra-detailed recreations of classical and contemporary works of art,...

1987 1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Reconstruct / Deconstruct, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Extreme Order: Cemin, Gober, Halley, Lemieux, Steinbach, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples (curated by Collins & Milazzo, brochure) Primary Structures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (curated by Robert Nickas) Avant - Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) Paint — Film, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (curated by Eugene Schwartz, catalogue) NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue) Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at The Equitable Center, New York Similia / Dissimilia, Columbia University Art Gallery, New York; travelled to Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Rainer Crone, catalogue) The Castle, documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (curated by Group Material) Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Berlin (catalogue) Anti-Baudrillard, White Columns, New York (curated by Group Material) Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (curated by Jerry Saltz, catalogue) Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue) The Beauty of Circumstance, Josh Baer Gallery, New York (catalogue) New York Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue) 1986 Admired Work, John Weber Gallery, New York Spiritual America, CEPA Galleries, Buffalo, NY (catalogue); travelled to Stavanger Faste Galleri, Stavanger, Norway (curated by Collins & Milazzo) New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Signs of Painting, Metro Pictures, New York, and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (catalogue) Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Collins & Milazzo) Political Geometries: on the Meaning of Alienation, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (catalogue) Post Pop, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (catalogue) Europa / Amerika, Ludwig Köln Museum, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (curated by David Joselit and Elisabeth Sussman, catalogue) Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Sonnabend Gallery, New York The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC Geometry Now, Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (El arte y su doble), Centre Cultural de la Funcacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid; travelled to Fundación Caja de Pensions, Barcelona (catalogue) Rooted Rhetoric, Castel Dell «Ovo, Naples (catalogue)

Painting walls, floor and most of seven sculptural tableaux a medium gray, Pictures Generation artist Barbara Bloom transforms David Lewis into a monochrome stage set, echoing the vintage black - and - white photographs of actors and literary figures that constitute the starting point for each of her works.

Posed before a violent tableaux (a picture within the picture that pays homage to the sweeping compositions of classical history painting), the scene appears as a suspended moment in a mysterious narrative.

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam highlights his oeuvre since 1996, featuring over 40 works in his second exhibition with the museum, entitled Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs, 1996 — 2013.

Born: Vancouver, British Columbia, 1946 Lives and works in Vancouver RECENT SOLO SHOWS 2015 Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996 - 2013, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark Jeff Wall, Fondation Henri Cartier - Bresson, Paris, France Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery, London Jeff Wall, Pérez Museum, Miami, US Figure on Display: Jeff Wall and Stephan Balkenhol, Leopold - Hoesch - Museum, Duren, Germany Jeff Wall, White Cube, London 2014 Jeff Wall: Tableaux, Pictures, Photographs 1996 - 2013, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria 2013 Jeff Wall Photographs, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia Jeff Wall: Actuality, PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy 2012 Jeff Wall: In light, black, colour, white, and dark, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, Ukraine 2011 Jeff Wall, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York Curated by Jeff Wall: Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path» The Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium Jeff Wall, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostella, Spain 2010 Jeff Wall, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France Jeff Wall.

The tableaux vivants or «living pictures» are shot on a Super-8 film, in which a seemingly motionless arrangement of people hold their frozen staged positions for the entire duration of one reel of film.

staged photography A posed scene or performance enacted before the camera similar to tableaux vivants (living pictures).

BOSTON JOHN O'REILLY HOWARD YEZERSKI GALLERY Miniaturist John O'Reilly has been constructing montages since the late»60s, creating photographic tableaux from pictures and props that he...

Recent solo exhibitions include «A Finger in the Pie, A Foot in the Door, A Leg in Quicksand», Kunsthalle Lingen (2012); «Pictures at an Exhibition», Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (2011); «Tableaux Vivants», Fonderie Darling, Montréal (2010); «7 Pictures of Nothing Repeated Four Times, in Gratitude», Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (2009) and «Habitat», Kunstverein Hamburg, (2008).