Sentences with phrase «ziggurat paintings»

The Ziggurat paintings are fully illustrated in color alongside images of drawings, installation, sculptures, and other works that incorporate the ziggurat form and is accompanied by a foreword written by Bronson and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Felix Partz created the first series of Ziggurat paintings in 1968 - 69 before the inception of the General Idea group - identity and they were later absorbed into the General Idea oeuvre.

The exhibition will be on view in our Chelsea gallery from November 30, 2017 through January 13, 2018 and will feature approximately seven ziggurat paintings alongside works on paper, photographs and ephemera that expand upon the significance of the ziggurat form in the oeuvre of General Idea.

In 1986, General Idea returned to ziggurat paintings, carrying out sketches from 1968 - 69 that had never been completed.

In 1986, General Idea returned to the ziggurat paintings as a group, realizing Partz's sketches from 1968 - 69 that had never been completed.

The gallery's first exhibition with the Estate of General Idea will be in November 2017 and will feature the group's Ziggurat Paintings (1968 - 86), marking General Idea's first solo exhibition in New York since The Museum of Modern Art presented One Day of AZT / One Year of AZT in 1996.

This exhibition will focus on the group's tamer but still visually grabbing Ziggurat Paintings, which were made between 1968 — 86 and play with the ancient Mesopotamian form.

GENERAL IDEA 1968 General Idea Shaped Ziggurat Painting # 1 1986 Fluorescent acrylic, acrylic, latex on unprimed canvas 62 1/2 by 94 1/2 by 4 in.

Not exact matches

The lights go off: but what are those paintings of ziggurats that look like Italian art - movie posters from the 1970s?

These paintings present a boldly colored world of alien lounge singers, flying saucers en route to modified ziggurats, and one - eyed nymphs bounding naked through nuclear landscapes.

His paintings and drawings, which have become a more prominent part of his work, can seem astonishingly empty in their simpistic slashes or ziggurat - like repetitions.

The bands of paint appear as though they are stacked on top of each other, and narrow incrementally in width from bottom to top so as to form a ziggurat shape.

But the works that are displayed — a tough - talking Frank Stella, like a ziggurat seen from above; a scintillating, quivering early Bridget Riley; a couple of Cy Twombly's elegantly dishevelled «blackboard» paintings, from 1970 — are satisfying.

A distended ziggurat in profile — «an abstraction of a mountain,» in Long's words — it spans a vast wall painted black.

The later paintings are four - inches deep, corresponding to the height of each of the ziggurat's steps.

Best known for his evocative abstract paintings featuring architectural motifs, Beattie typically employs a muted palate of earthy colours and expressive, gestural brushstrokes to create an array of archetypal images and pictographic signs such as stairs, steps, ziggurats, ladders, gateways and tunnels.

The Estate of General Idea (1969 - 1994) had their first exhibition with the Mitchell - Innes & Nash Gallery on view in Chelsea through January 13, featuring several «ziggurat» paintings from the late 1960s, alongside works on paper, photographs and ephemera that highlight the central importance of the ziggurat form in the rich practice of General Idea.