Secret codes and images embedded within the paintings, as well
as architectural forms, evoke old world narratives and mythologies.
They are similar in size to portable two - way radio sets but could also be seen
as architectural forms — miniaturized radio stations transmitting and receiving radio waves, coded SMS messages, heavy musical broadcasts and ominous weather reports.
The work takes inspiration in part from classical imagery: The artist finds resonance in both representational Catholic iconography as well
as the architectural forms of European Gothic and Islamic architecture, while recent praise in the New York Times places her in a complex lineage with both Georgia O'Keefe and Judy Chicago.
Not exact matches
An extensive background and numerous skills in
architectural design, a lifelong passion for art, and a penchant for culture has provided Laura Dittrich, a visual storyteller based in Germany, with a keen eye for aesthetics and a unique creative vision materialized through aesthetic visuals such
as cinemagraphs and experimental video content in the
form of outfit editorials (cinematorials).
As a senior partner in an
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[4] Specifically, this took the
form of an interactive work titled s.laag, which serves
as a game - level replica of the World's Fair held in Brussels in 1958; primarily the player - character takes on the role of a bass clarinet to navigate through various mini-games and around
architectural icons.
Each of the installations, which vary in
form — from sculpture and photography to sound and
architectural intervention — investigates a different element of the in - between
as both a physical location and an abstract condition.
Her lifelong project
as an artist is fusing everyday
architectural and domestic
forms with personal and universal human experiences and memories.
How to Build a House Museum invites visitors to tour the house museum in its many possible
forms:
as an
architectural monument, historical representation, or site of freedom.
These latest works celebrate the diversity of the city's
architectural forms, from landmarks such
as the elaborate façade of the Castro Theatre and the Victorian confection known
as the Conservatory of Flowers — a landmark building in Golden Gate Park — to residential neighborhoods that reward sustained looking.
He frequently uses geometric and
architectural forms in his work
as a reference to his urban surroundings.
Ruiz's Sunroom Project, Against Nature, adds to an ongoing body of work that explores
architectural screens
as socially and politically emblematic
forms.
Her sculptural works are often site - specific, making use of
architectural space and working in tandem with abstract wall drawings to
form the installations
as a whole.
Instead, her strange
forms, which depict things such
as spiders,
architectural forms such
as houses and cages, and the human body, explored themes of loneliness, conflict, frustration, vulnerability, sexual desire, and love.
In her compositions Jebavy often includes glassware
forms that call to mind other Baroque artworks, such
as Bernini's expansive Baldachin in St. Peter's Cathedral, or illusionistic Italian ceiling paintings and cathedrals, building altar - like
architectural spaces that are at once intimate, domestic, and banal, and monumental, metaphysical, and transcendental.
Also on view is a group of bronze sculptures from Nagle's Hands On series (1991), which use the cup
as a formal vehicle rather than a utilitarian tool, employing slight variations in structure and texture to create abstract geometric and
architectural forms.
Peter Shelton's sculptures incorporate both abstracted and figurative
forms along with anatomical
as well
as architectural motifs.
Instead, her strange
forms, which depict things such
as spiders,
architectural forms such
as houses and cages...
Invested in
architectural ornament, which they treat
as the bearer of social relations turned into
form, the videos are intriguing, but they give off the strange air of an academic exercise.
The installation is a component of the 2013 Carnegie International (
as is the Playground Project, which also opened this month in the Heinz
Architectural Center) and highlights the major role the International has played in
forming the museum's collection.
Each of the project proposals considers the
architectural memory of a given site
as inspiration to the design of the structural
form and the humanitarian program proposed.
In Event Horizon, thirty - one life - size body
forms of the artist cast in iron and fiberglass will inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of historic Madison Square Park,
as well
as the rooftops of the many
architectural treasures that populate New York's vibrant Flatiron District.
And despite the mechanical rigidity suggested by Desmarais»
architectural forms, the movement continued
as one walked past each piece, the body's motion stirring constant shifts in shape, lighting, and color.
They resemble
architectural forms or ritualized objects; given Nonas's early years
as an anthropologist, they just might be inspired by them, too.
The second edition (held in 2005) featured works such
as Chen Zhen's Purification Room, in which the artist covered a space and its assorted objects with earth to
form a petrified field, and Mella Jaarsma's
architectural, decorative shelters that looked like shrines and totems and fitted snugly around the human body while offering protection from the elements.
Mauro Giaconi creates sculptures, installations, and drawings based on abstracted
architectural forms such
as as pipes, structures, columns, and tools.
Thus, the sculptures of Chul - Hyun Ahn infinitely reflect highly streamlined
forms,
as in the series Visual Echo; explore
architectural spaces,
as in the series Tunnel and Well; and integrate abstract drawings, such
as in the series Mirror Drawing.
For the fourth installation at Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite, renowned sculptor Elspeth Pratt draws on
architectural forms as inspiration to investigate how built environments define public space.
At the Schinkel Pavillon (until July 29), «The Empty House» is a show dedicated to artworks Louise Bourgeois created in the last two decades of her life in which the artist focused on the
architectural and associative possibilities of the sack, hollowed or filled,
as a
form relating both to cells and to the female body.
It's no accident that many of his best drawings over the years have taken the
form of grandly elaborate blueprints and
architectural renderings, making him a charter member of what I like to think of
as the schematic school of late Modernism (other members would include Bruce Nauman, Lee Lozano and Chris Burden).
The sculpture is inspired by a common
architectural form — the porch, and serves
as both an entryway and a receiving space.
Absent or present, the human figure is a constant element in his work, whether in the
form of bodies in action, satirical caricatures, or animistic sculptures;
as the residue of a private ritual; or
as architectural space left uninhabited for the viewer to occupy.
She translates garments into metal and plastic, enlarging the scale and simplifying
form to create pieces that read
as both figural and
architectural.
In her sixth solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong, Ursula von Rydingsvard will present three new monumental works that exemplify the artist
as a sculptor in full command of her craft, further developing the vocabulary that she has so thoroughly honed: abstract,
architectural forms composed of accretions of wood.
In his vertical poems, Andre experimented with
form and the disruption of language by taking words from their common
architectural orientation (horizontal lines that read left to right) and re-ordering them to create a new system of reading; the words are stacked on top of each other
as individual particles, but still construct a readable sentence.
Spalletti's work refuses any straight - forward labelling
as painting or sculpture — they are
architectural fragments in geometric
forms, impregnated with flickering luminosity and pulsating touch.
The immediate impact of Pendleton's engagement with the
architectural space of the institution invites visitors to understand his engagement with site
as a
form of occupation.
Their «New Sculpture» pushed beyond Minimalism and called all previous conceptions of the art
form into question by employing unusual materials that had never before been used.Throughout his career, Sonnier has experimented with materials
as varied
as latex, satin, bamboo, found objects, satellite transmitters, and video.In 1968, the artist began working with neon, which quickly became a defining element of his work.The linear quality of neon allows Sonnier to draw in space with light and color, while the diffuseness of the light enables his work to interact on various
architectural planes.Sonnier's
architectural neon installations in public spaces have earned him wide acclaim in an international context.
From 2008 to 2010 Silverman collaborated with Nader Tehrani on «Boolean Valley», a conceptual, installation piece that traveled from the San Jose Museum of Art to MOCA Los Angeles, to the Nasher Sculpture Center, in which they made a cone - shaped
form on the wheel, slip cast it 200 times, then cut each cone horizontally in two and laid out the resulting 400 pieces
as a complicated, topographic, landscape installation that responded to each of the
architectural spaces within which is was installed.
Using tower
forms as key signifiers of place and identity, Scenic Overlook activates the two - story gallery space with four large - scale wooden sculptures that borrow signature
architectural features from the four highest observation towers in the world: Tokyo Skytree, Canton Tower, CN Tower and Ostankino Tower.
Large - format works were installed in the area during special exhibitions, but
as an
architectural element, it had more
form than function.
In his personal project, Shadow Spaces, London artist Owen Gildersleeve collaborated with still life photographer Stephen Lenthall to craft a series of miniature
architectural paper spaces, using «light
as a map to shape each
form».
When grouped
as individuals the tentacles take on interesting
architectural forms with great potential for large scale sculptures
Takahiro Iwasaki is known for his hanging
architectural models of traditional Japanese buildings with reflected or mirrored
forms, creating an optical affect
as if the space around them were water.
Their instructional scores and poetic manifestos,
architectural notes and archival material inspire feelings of rootedness, hope or loss with view to
form as well
as preserve identity, culture and history.
These were reflected through his use of saturated pigments and striking
architectural forms in bodies of work such
as 1000 Names.
In addition to questioning the function of architecture, the artist approached buildings
as structures and in the
form of an applied sociopolitical,
architectural criticism, formulating the idea of space
as variable in meaning and experience.
Yet, universally recognizable shapes emerge from the canvas, such
as umbrellas, trees, swans,
architectural constructions, and a few human
forms.
The work takes the
form of an
architectural intervention including sculptural floor objects and it combines elements of historical research around the first human journey into outer space
as well
as participatory conversations with more than 90inhabitants in Hangzhou, among them students of the China Academy of Art of Hangzhou where the artist is presently a visiting artist.