Social life and
artistic life blurred, with artists making work directly on the street and clubs providing an important new type of venue for introducing novel forms of expression.
Not exact matches
Frieze Projects 2016 brings together artists from different generations and regions to share their visions of human
life, from Sibylle Berg & Claus Richter's darkly comic puppet theatre, to Coco Fusco's performance lecture on predatory behaviour, to Operndorf Afrika's
blurring of
artistic production, everyday
life and education.
David Claerbout's paintings on paper are fundamental to his film practice; Ilse D'Hollander's intimate canvases are sensual explorations of the physical act of painting; Jose Dávila interrogates how the modernist movement has been translated, appropriated, and reinvented; Laurent Grasso's meticulous appropriations of classical paintings integrate impossible phenomena,
blurring the line between the historical and contemporary; Rebecca Horn's large - scale gestural paintings evoke her early performance work, their dimensions being determined by the artist's physical reach; Callum Innes» Exposed Paintings are concerned with both making and unmaking the work; Idris Khan utilizes language, melding thousands of lines of stamped text into singular abstract images; Hugo McCloud's work fuses industrial and fine art materials; Sam Moyer combines found textures into a fresh, expanded,
artistic palette; and James White's oil paintings reimagine the still
life as a chance freeze - frame.
Attracted to New York's avant - garde scene, he took part in a show organized by Allan Kaprow, his professor at Rutgers, called «18 Happenings in 6 Parts» (1959); it was a seminal, fleeting neo-Dada moment of
artistic freedom that sought to
blur the line between dream, art, and
life.
Free and open to the public, the exhibition surveys groundbreaking works from around the world that together register one of the most important developments in recent art history: the rise in the last twenty - five years of a renewed sphere of
artistic practices that
blur the lines between art and everyday
life in projects emphasizing political concerns, participation, and forms of dialogue.