Sentences with phrase «ancient idea of artists»

Not exact matches

Here's an artist's idea of what the intense volcanic activity in ancient Siberia might have looked like.

«Ancienne Rive,» meaning ancient river, calls upon ideas of history, authenticity, and something with deep roots, which contradicts the artist's self proclaimed feelings of loneliness, foreign alienation and the notion of being both nowhere and everywhere.

I knew I'd seen something fantastic unfolding, an artist who was probing painting's ancient uses via abstraction, Twombly's ideas of paint that looks like it's been applied straight from the human body, Sigmar Polke's belief in painting's transformative powers, and Robert Ryman's desire to reduce painting to its bare bones to see how far these bones can go.

The 35 - year - old rising star is considered one of the foremost contemporary artists working in traditional Chinese ink painting today, with the pieces on display — including a panoramic thirty - two - foot silk scroll and a diptych portrait — demonstrate how he deploys ancient techniques and themes to explore contemporary thoughts and ideas.

The exhibition closes with the artist's last film, EASTER MORNING (1966 — 2008), in which its title pairs a reference to re-birth and eternal life with a film reworked from an earlier 1966 8 mm short entitled, EASTER MORNING RAGA, referencing one of the most ancient forms of Indian music, further connecting to the idea of reincarnation.

As a contemporary artist in China working with diverse traditions and new and ancient media, Huang has built an artistic universe comprised of provocative installations that challenge the viewer to reconsider everything from the idea of art to national identity to recent history.

Rather, says Reynolds - Kaye, «they rejected the idea of them as primitive and saw a real kinship with these ancient artists.»

/ exhibitions 2017 Co • — st • — l W • — ve Tr • — nsl • — tor, RAFT artist - run space, Elizabeth Quay, Perth 2016 Longli International New Media Art Festival, Longli Ancient Town, Jinping County, Guizhou Province, China 2016 Polymorphism, Ideas Platform, Artspace, Sydney 2016 Automated Reasoning Paradigm, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 2015 Didactic Tools, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth 2015 Dead Ringer, curated by Leigh Robb, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2015 Pica Salon, curated by Leigh Robb and Nadia Johnson, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2015 sculptures: 5, The Auricle, Christchurch, New Zealand 2015 Firstdraft Auction, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 2014 What I See When I Look At Sound, curated by Leigh Robb, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts 2014 Print Award, Fremantle Arts Centre 2014 hyperthymesia, State of the Art Festival, State Library of Western Australia 2014 sculptures: 4, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney 2014 perspectives [micro], NOW now Festival Group Show, SNO Gallery, Sydney 2013 perspectives [macro], free range gallery, Perth 2013 Open Curator Studio, Artspace, curated by Alana Kushnir, Sydney / online 2012 NH7 festival, Pune, India 2011 Wonderland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan 2010 hypnogenia, Scitech Science Museum, Perth

On Saturday 24 September the Nunnery Gallery invites you to an artist - led pilgrimage to draw water from an ancient well in Valentine's Park, Ilford, paying homage to the idea of a journey that brings people together and to explore the hidden streets of east London.