In his paintings and sculptures, Glenn Brown reflects upon the history of art never confining himself to a specific period; he refers for instance with
artistic strategies from Renaissance till the twentieth century, working after paintings of Rembrandt, Menzel, Dalí or Auerbach for instance.
Spanning generations, movements and
artistic strategies from the 1960s to the present day, this publication brings together works by artists who have probed, mimicked and critiqued this aspect of our visual environment as well as its industrial modes of production and distribution.
What's more, in interpreting duBois» collection, Crosher adopts
another artistic strategy from the «Pictures» generation — photographing photographs à la Richard Prince and Sherrie Levine.
Not exact matches
Sid Meier's Starships is a pretty good challenging
strategy game, with tactical depth, but suffers
from a lack of
artistic ambition and a flat atmosphere that leaves one indifferent.
The exhibition, presented by LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and California Historical Society, will examine a group of murals produced in the greater L.A. area
from the 1970s to the 2000s that were threatened or destroyed, and explore how their iconography, content, and
artistic strategies challenged dominant cultural norms and historical narratives.
For the 14th Istanbul Biennial, in keeping with her Documenta
strategy of hiring agents to advise on the show — she will draft the exhibition with help
from various artists, curators and others: «seeking the
artistic advice of Cevdet Erek, the intellectual rigor of Griselda Pollock, the sensitivity of Pierre Huyghe, the curatorial imagination of Chus Martinez, the mindfulness of Marcos Lutyens, the acute gaze of Füsun Onur, the political philosophies of Anna Boghiguian, the youthful enthusiasm of Arlette Quynh - Anh Tran, the wise uncertainties of William Kentridge and manifold qualities and agencies to come as the process develops».
Linking the movement of people at that time to the experience of globalization today adds to the urgency of understanding the
artistic strategies and modes of resistance by artists that took part in the fascinating story of kinetic and op art
from these regions.
Far
from ignoring the lessons of Duchamp, such a treatment of paint was derived
from an understanding of his predecessor's
artistic strategies, to which Rauschenberg had his first in - depth exposure in the spring of 1953 at Sidney Janis's exhibition, Dada 1916 — 1923.8 Throughout that year, he explored various precedents set by the older artist.
Jesper Aabille (
from Denmark) works in a variety of
artistic strategies: urban interventions, sculptures, drawings,...
His
artistic strategy stems
from an awareness of perception and the desire to explore the possibilities of seeing, at once grounded in reality and released
from specific legibility.
Hancock's unabashed cultivation of his preadolescent imagination can mask a sophisticated
artistic strategy, one that has carried him
from a fundamentalist Christian household in the northeast Texas town of Paris to this year's place of honor among visual artists
from across the state.
Through its residency and public programme, the Delfina Foundation brings together artists, curators and critics
from around the world to explore how
artistic strategies have and can be used to address wide - ranging issues, in this case issues relating to food, agriculture, and the environment.
Her work at once borrows
from the lineage's
artistic strategies and enacts a disruption in its traditional formal and ideological constraints.
La Casa Encendida, Madrid Pictoplasma and La Casa Encendida present a group - exhibition of contemporary character design and art, focussing on the current
artistic strategy of hijacking, re-designing and creating mascots, while they increasingly free themselves
from the contexts they used to stand for.
Pictoplasma — White Noise presents current
artistic strategies that make use of mechanisms similar to those of commercial mascots, logos and trademarks to engage in a critique of the markets they have originated
from, or to create a detached fetishized cult, with abstract mascots at its centre.
Encompassing a variety of media and
artistic strategies, Tarjama / Translation treats the multiple processes of translation as dynamic and complex,
from linguistic and textual maneuvers, to the transformation of consciousness engendered by the increasingly globalized world.
She employs conceptual and methodological approaches borrowed
from artistic and academic practices such as theater, film, anthropology, linguistics and journalism, to explore new representational
strategies that examine and interrogate the allegorical character of the present political moment.
Drawn
from the Hirshhorn's collection, this exhibition brings together works that use the processes of copying, faking, and duplicating as
strategies of
artistic invention.
She studied in Midrasha School of Art in Israel and received MFA in the Public Art and New
Artistic Strategy program
from the Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany.
Yet, the art world must still move on
from appropriation as an
artistic strategy per se, to recycling as a natural way to deal with any morsel of information.
By bringing together practitioners
from different creative fields, Delfina Foundation explored how
artistic strategies have and can be used to address wide - ranging issues related to the commons and public space, both the real and the imagined,
from the city square to the computer screen.
In the former times presenting research as a
strategy for
artistic practice, had remained the sole domain of research funding
from higher education institutions, as it is often a precarious and beguiling balance based on strategic re-formulation; Slavs» and Tartars» regional linguistic web - like encasing or Simon Fujiwara's intriguing journeys involving gumshoe archeology, travel and sexuality are dependent on revealing specific correlations; their instigations have won over funders willing to stay the course, a condition that allows a great deal of curatorial independence.
Each programme features a dynamic set of activities -
from exhibitions to artist talks - presenting emerging
artistic networks,
strategies and projects that explore the recent cultural and social trajectory of each city, steeped in history and shaped by current events.
Having seemingly recovered
from the harsh critical overtones after almost being eliminated
from contemporary discourse, in which a retroactive and purely commercial tone took over, the ideas and
strategies of the «reductive» and «essential» have slowly found their way back into
artistic language and practice.
In 1940 Motherwell joined them in the workshop of Kurt Seligmann in New York where he studied etching and first began to adopt the surrealist's technique of psychic automatism, an
artistic strategy where chance and accident is allowed to dictate the structure of a composition freed
from rational control.
Her
artistic strategies began converging to those of the curator, insofar as they are still clearly discernable
from each other.
Since the emergence of challenging and rebellious
artistic strategies in the 1960s, international artists have questioned the idea that visual art should be static, sanctified, and presented on a wall or plinth to be viewed
from a distance.
Spanning generations, movements, and
artistic strategies —
from early Pop work, avant - garde film, Pictures Generation appropriation, institutional critique, and a range of other materialist, picture - based activities — the exhibition also considers contemporary art's own complicit function as an ever - expanding industrial image economy.