The artists
use as points of departure a wide spectrum of inspiration from personal, archival material to cultural myth and memory, both real and imagined.
Taking these selected
works as his point of departure, the artist explored the relationship between painting and photography, but also that between image and language.
Taking romantic notions of landscape and the
sublime as points of departure, this exhibition presents contemporary approaches to nature that reflect our rapidly evolving world.
As one can see in the works we have on view, he has continued to explore the motif of the «map»
as a point of departure for mining this topic.
Taking these selected
works as his point of departure, the artist explores the relationship not only between painting and photography, but also that between image and language.
Markus Selg takes the small sculpture in Matisse's
painting as his point of departure for a new sculptural figure, setting it beside a handmade rug and a carved wooden chair (all works 2012).
It serves
as a point of departure in much the same way the horse and head function in paintings by the contemporary American artist Susan Rothenberg (MATRIX 3).
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) uses the visual
arts as a point of departure for exploring new artistic production across a variety of disciplines.
These new works take historical paintings and Internet
culture as their point of departure and utilize paint and digitally manipulated printed images to create hybridized portraits suffused with cultural and societal critiques.
Leirner, born in 1961 in São Paulo, emerged in the early 1990s at the forefront of a new transnational generation of artists looking to the art of the 1960s and
1970s as a point of departure.
Taking found imagery and
film as a point of departure in her work, Pascual creates photo - based sculptures, installations, and images that employ strategies of artistic movements such as Conceptual Art, Surrealism, Minimalism, and Arte Povera.
This exhibition marks the second major exhibition of «Celestial Navigation: a year into the afro future», a year - long program of exhibitions and events at Urban Video Project and partner organizations that takes
afrofuturism as its point of departure.
From the moment Tarantino's film begins, it announces it is an entirely fictitious, over-the-top tale... like an opera, a performance that uses a historical
event as a point of departure into something overtly fantastic with heightened emotional expressions.
The show took
Africa as a point of departure, juxtaposing artists like Nigeria - born Otobong Nkanga with Western positions such as that of French - born Alexandre Singh.
I'm excited to be a part of the Pencil / Line / Eraser exhibition at Carroll / Fletcher gallery in London, «a group show surveying recent works in expanded drawing which use paper and
line as a point of departure.»
Responding to the context of the centenary, EVA International 2016 curated by Koyo Kouoh will be entitled Still (the) Barbarians and will investigate the post-colonial condition of
Ireland as a point of departure from where artistic reflections, critical redefinitions and political transformations are articulated.
Some of the most captivating works use
photography as a point of departure: Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. Lê mounts color prints onto strips of linen that he then weaves into contrasting images of war and domesticity.
Although she took primary inspiration from everyday objects — a shoe, a protractor, a potted plant — these things
functioned as points of departure for much stranger and darker imaginings.
A translation should always take its «original»
as a point of departure from which to build a whole different work of art, not as a sacred text to be faithfully respected and imitated.
They elude straightforward classification, deftly using the representational
as a point of departure into the abstract, allowing the subject to become incidental to the compositional form created.
The foreword, written by editor in chief Daniel Dawkins, briefly brings up this
question as a point of departure for the book A Hideo Kojima Book: The Ultimate Guide to Metal Gear Solid.
One of the possibilities is to go back in the timeline rather than forward, and take for example the time when Solid Snake was a very young
soldier as a point of departure.
Taking the use of the age - old measurement unit the cubit (the length of a forearm) in ancient art
forms as a point of departure, this show features artists who have developed their own systematic approaches to artmaking.
The exhibition takes
as point of departure Images and Conversations from the 1980s (2011) by Susan Walsh, a show reel gathering rare visual material featuring images of artworks by pioneering Black British women practitioners, as well as conversations between the artist and curator Lubaina Himid and several of her peers.