Sentences with phrase «ancient structures set»

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Christo sculpture set for installation in Hyde Park Westminster Council yesterday approved the scheme to install a floating ancient Egyptian Tomb structure, called a Mastaba, on top of Hyde Park's Serpentine lake.

Jesper Just's eerie 2013 video, Intercourses, set in a pseudo-Parisian housing structure in China — an actual ruin, since the elaborate and cheaply fabricated buildings were never finished and are now moldering uselessly — is a stunning metaphor of the ruins left behind by the mad rush of capitalism and is headlined «Ancient Paris, Catacombs, Demolitions, Decline of Paris.»

What look like hulking, geometric structures set in barren landscapes are, in fact, two - dimensional façades constructed from card or paper, which Goudal has photographed to appear ancient yet futuristic, fantastical yet uncannily real.

The permanent installation, called «Avignon Locators», 8 «Locators» set in specific compass directions in alignment with the North Star, bringing an ancient and ubiquitous practice of orienting terrestrial structures by astronomic observance into the idiom of contemporary, interactive sculpture.

In Alex Majoli's exhibition SKENE, a term referring to part of the structure of an ancient Greek theatrical set, the Magnum photographer has fixed a wide swath of humanity — from India to Egypt to Germany — within the contours of an aesthetic more common to the stage or screen.