Sentences with phrase «artists in a global context»

To place its artists in a global context, the Museum's exhibitions include Georgia artists and artists from around the world.

To place our artists in a global context, the museum's exhibitions include artists from around the world in addition to Georgia artists.

Not exact matches

Chang Tsong - Zung (Johnson Chang) is a gallerist, independent curator and co-founder of «Asia Art Archive» in Hong Kong, who began to bring Chinese contemporary artists into a global context in the early 1990s, and has striven to open up Chinese art practices through innovative curatorial projects.

A metaphorical representation of a local artist working in a global context who draws on his nearest entourage, Althamer dressed as Matołek has toured Brazil and Mali.

Mahlangu is the most renowned artist of South Africa's Ndebele people, and she has developed the art of mural painting from a tradition of designs painted on the exterior of rural homes to projects created in a global, contemporary art context.

Throughout his work, the young artist has been exploring the outsider status of young Muslims in the multicultural society and lately he has been questioning the global context of postcolonial condition.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, has opened their exhibition, Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings, which will explore Cole's impact as a major 19th - century landscape artist within a global context.

By focusing on the accomplishments of 24 international artists born in the years following 1960 (Ghada Amer, Cecily Brown, Tracy Emin, Katarzyna Kozyra, Wangechi Mutu, Mika Rottenberg, Janine Antoni, Cao Fei, Nathalie Djurberg, Pipilotti Rist, Jane and Louise Wilson, Lisa Yuskavage, Kate Gilmore, Justine Kurland, Klara Lidén, Liza Lou, Catherine Opie, Andrea Zittel, Yael Bartana, Tania Bruguera, Sharon Hayes, Teresa Margolles, Julie Mehretu, and Kara Walker), this book is an indispensible study of important art in today's visual culture, especially in a global context, and necessarily made more visible.

Given that sabbatical (during which the Hong Kong - born, New York - based artist set up his Badlands Unlimited publishing house), perhaps it's fitting too that the first section of the book brings together a series of texts — «What Art Is and Where It Belongs» and «On Art and the 99 Percent» among them — that, at their heart, consider questions concerning the definition of art and its role in society, with a particular focus on its relation to ideas of home and community, much of it in the context of America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the subsequent global economic recession.

Working in very different contexts during a period of global political and aesthetic foment, the artists here are united — like the women in the Brooklyn Museum's equally ground - breaking recent survey «We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women 1965 — 85» — by their doubly marginalized position.

The solo exhibition by Polish visual and performance artist Justyna Scheuring, who lives and works in London, brings together sign language interpreters and consecutive translators, in order to compose a performance through a multitude of voices and forms of expression to question issues of identity in a context of personal trauma, global migration and the experience of otherness.

This exhibition examines for the first time the artist's career in relation to his European roots and travels, establishing Cole as a major figure in 19th - century landscape art within a global context.

The gallery exhibits and promotes the work of contemporary Canadian artists alongside a selection of international artists, situating the gallery platform in a global and historical context.

Our operation is based in direct contact with our represented artists and other leading Swedish and international artists who has often been widely exhibited in the global museum and gallery context and hold strong relevance in both the art discourse and the art market.

The terms «local» and «international» are given new emphasis (especially at this juncture and in the context of one of the largest sporting events on the planet) and the following questions are posed: What does it mean to be a local artist in this age of the global?

Artists of the decade often addressed these events specifically in their work, but also situated them within the context of changes particular to the art world, such as the «culture wars» surrounding artistic freedom and censorship; the impact of new media (video, sound, and digital art) on artistic practice; and the expansion of the global art market, with its explosion of art fairs and art markets.

Each artist's practice encompasses visual forms from the West filtered through an Indian sensibility and uses the drawn line as a device for negotiating space in ways that are self - empowering, exploring the complexity of making and exhibiting work in an increasingly global context.

By addressing local context the artist touches upon the themes related to the constructedness of history and cultural legacy, the persistence of ethnic and national clichés in the global world, the reflection on and re-evaluation of the past which clashes with today's realities.

In response to the Biennale's theme, the South African Pavilion exhibition will invite viewers to explore the artist's role in visualising and articulating the notion of selfhood within a context of global marginalisatioIn response to the Biennale's theme, the South African Pavilion exhibition will invite viewers to explore the artist's role in visualising and articulating the notion of selfhood within a context of global marginalisatioin visualising and articulating the notion of selfhood within a context of global marginalisation.

Inspired by Gustav Metzger's observation that «every step in nature is a moment of grace», this exhibition presents the work of artists who re-use and transform materials in their work in order to comment on commodity and consumption in both local and global contexts.

Monte Clark Gallery, established in 1992, exhibits and promotes the work of contemporary Canadian artists alongside a selection of international artists, situating the gallery platform in a global and historical context.

He edited an anthology of writings on contemporary art — titled Artists, Critics, Context: Readings in and around American Art Since 1945 — published by Prentice - Hall and is currently Professor of Fine Arts at St. John's University in New York City where he teaches course that operate at the intersection of theory and practice including Senior Thesis Seminar and Global Contemporary Art.

In a conversation with two other artists from Inside Out and art historian Arden Decker, which was published in the exhibition catalogue, Okón explains, «I have a preoccupation with routines that are connected to my everyday life and in the way these very local issues connect to a global contexIn a conversation with two other artists from Inside Out and art historian Arden Decker, which was published in the exhibition catalogue, Okón explains, «I have a preoccupation with routines that are connected to my everyday life and in the way these very local issues connect to a global contexin the exhibition catalogue, Okón explains, «I have a preoccupation with routines that are connected to my everyday life and in the way these very local issues connect to a global contexin the way these very local issues connect to a global context.