Sentences with phrase «as plinths»

At Frieze London this past October, Eichelmann curated a selection of classical objects and artworks, where vases, blankets, cabinets, and objets d'art acted as plinths supporting contemporary works (the sponsoring gallery's name alone — Ancient & Modern — is apropos).

In his new work currently shown at Canada, Bareikis wraps, stacks and sandwiches trash into sculptural installations that often use found furniture as plinths.

I also quite liked that a couple of galleries had invested in beautiful packing crates that also doubled as plinths and frames for the artworks, such as at Bacarelli Botticelli Gallery and Koetser Gallery.

Materials that previously acted as plinths and platforms for her artworks have been reconfigured into stand - alone pieces including tables, chairs, benches, a desk, and a freestanding partition wall.

Encouraging our own reflections on the place - based distinctions between art and food, curator Lauren Godfrey has sourced tables and chairs that double up as plinths for other works, whilst Bella Pace's commissioned sign adds a further dimension to the site - specificity of the show.

The figures are supported, suspended and penetrated by simple wooden geometric armatures recalling Sol LeWitt's open cubes; and the frames, which snake around and through the figures, act as plinths, retort stands and prosthetic limbs.

Serving as plinths, stage - sets and sculptures in their own right, these elegant forms are designed to accentuate the textures of the objects on show.

Instead of serial units, Benglis gives us a pool of swaggering blue velvet and ersatz classical columns, which act as plinths for kitschy objects including a toy car.

The group exhibition is integrated into the solo exhibition with works appearing both independently and on Assists, a new body of work by Stockholder which are interstitial; acting as both sculpture and hardware, adjuncts to furniture or walls, and as plinths for other works.

Elsewhere, crushed car wrecks are also gainfully employed as plinths for her equally car wreck - like works.

At Paula Cooper Gallery Mark di Suvero's mid-sized steel sculptures display split personalities where the light, curvy, and floating self is tethered to the heavier, bulky and more burdensome corporeality via moorings such as the plinth, anchor and chain, or simply through the physical relationship with the ground.

She has also provoked controversy at home with works such as Plinth, a copy of a plinth placed upsidedown upon the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square.

I'm not an artist, but the basic arrangement looks fine as a plinth and would make a fine base for a figure, sculpture, something quirky perhaps an arrangement of scrap bikes, cans and rubbish, scrap parts from our seafaring heritage.

Not exact matches

The Guardian describes Jabal Omar as «a sprawling complex that will eventually accommodate 100,000 people in 26 luxury hotels — sitting on another gargantuan plinth of 4,000 shops and 500 restaurants, along with its own six - storey prayer hall.»

The London mayor Boris Johnson initially backed plans to erect a statue of the former prime minister on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar square, but later backed away after it was attacked as «crass».

Shot in a boxy aspect ratio, in rich, complex black and white, the film isn't simply stylistically arresting, however; these first few moments find us in a quiet cloister of a Polish convent in the 1960s as a group of novice nuns silently, piously, go about restoring a statue of Christ, returning it to its plinth in the convent's snowy grounds.

The title gives the goal away: as you explore you'll find stone fragments that, when placed on plinths at a mythical temple, unlock portals to new realms from a forgotten time.

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I won't list all the other activities we have carried out across our businesses over the last decade, but from events and print and digital mail - outs, to promotional materials and adverts — and having an author dress up as Lord Lucan and stand on a plinth in Trafalgar Square — we have never been shy about trying absolutely anything to get our books noticed.

As God is looking away, Atlas jumps from his plinth, still holding his boulder, and as he falls through space, he lands on EartAs God is looking away, Atlas jumps from his plinth, still holding his boulder, and as he falls through space, he lands on Eartas he falls through space, he lands on Earth.

Installations such as Field (1991, Arts Council Collection), which has been re-made by local communities across the world, and major public works such as Angel of the North (1998, Gateshead), Another Place (2005, Crosby Beach, near Liverpool), One & Other (2009, a Fourth Plinth commission for Trafalgar Square, London) and Exposure (2010, Lelystad, Holland) are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture.

In Yet to be titled (rebar head on plinth) Houseago pushes his practice to the opposite extreme and, instead of building up his work in plaster and hemp, creates a three - dimensional linear work in iron rebar — normally employed as a structural component, it is used here as a medium in its own right.

Commissioned by the Mayor of London as part of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Programme, the 4.7 m high sculpture will occupy Trafalgar Square's empty plinth for 18 mPlinth Commissioning Programme, the 4.7 m high sculpture will occupy Trafalgar Square's empty plinth for 18 mplinth for 18 months.

On a plinth in the center of the room is the Alcoholics Anonymous bible known as «The Big Book,» surrounded by clandestine audio recordings of moral conflict, transgression and confession made during these ostensibly private and anonymous groups.

The work is by renowned artist Yinka Shonibare, known for the Ship in a Bottle sculpture that stood as the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.The ballet and the visual arts have a long history of interaction -LSB-...]

«The Merging» app project was first introduced in 2016, and this time it will enable visitors to discover sculptural work from four plinths installed at the gallery, as well as «bring to life» all the other works in the show.

While Whiteread has never become a public figure in the manner of contemporaries such as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, her projects have become the subject of fierce public debate, both in Vienna and in London: House won her the Turner prize in 1993, but was the subject of some local hostility; some found her fourth plinth commission repetitious.

Rebecca Warren's composition of striding high - heeled legs without a torso is raised on plinths, commenting on the traditions of modernist bronze sculpture (as yet untitled (Croccioni bronze), 2009).

This rising generation have themselves benefited from the prominence of works such as Antony Gormley's Angel of the North, Artangel's extraordinary 30 years of commissions, including Rachel Whiteread's House and Michael Landy's Break Down, and the changing occupants of Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth.

The breeze blocks double up as furniture for visitors and plinths for her works.

As Chairman of the Fourth Plinth Commissioning Group, he leads an expert set of artists and curators selecting works for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square on behalf of the Mayor of London.

Past works, such as Mask (2011), Cao (2014), and Surveillance Camera with Plinth (2015), each infused with autobiographical elements, transmit ideas of isolation, displacement, governmental control, and environmental disuse.

The most curious and unusual sculpture of the fair was found at Dublin - based Kerlin Gallery's booth: a tiny, stunningly lifelike rendering of a crab whose front claws were molded from artist Dorothy Cross's own index fingers was painted silver, mounted on a small white plinth no more than two feet high (I'm not great with numbers, but as a reference, it's roughly as tall as my friend's art - going, Instagram - celebrity French Bulldog named Miss Pickle, if she sits upright).

One of his best known early collaborative projects, the Tumblr - based art platform / meme generator known as Jogging, accomplished this by showcasing the cheeky ad hoc sculptures and Photoshop creations of Troemel and his friends as if the screen were a flat kind of virtual plinth; his Etsy store came at things from the other direction, using the craftsy online commercial forum as a place to present totally ridiculous, often perishable products — a Doritos Tacos Locos taco secured shut by a Masterlock, or a cluster of hot dogs, q - tips, and a SuperCuts pen wrapped up in a Livestrong bracelet — as if they were homespun products people might actually want.

Quinn subsequently enlarged this work to make it a major piece of public art for the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square, and the work was also featured as the center sculpture of the 2012 London Paralympics.

Jonathan Berger was selected as one of the 12 finalists for the inaugural Plinth Commission.

The participants used her hour on the plinth in most different ways: There were activists, raising awareness for causes such as animal welfare, the environment, and human rights; creatives from painters to dancers who brought their art to the plinth; people who promoted themselves or their companies; and participants who simply did nothing.

They are displayed on low, clinical looking plinths made in stainless steel, reminiscent of the sterile interior of a laboratory as well as of Donald Judd's aesthetics.

Higgins's sculptures, «Plinth,» «Soap Box,» and «Figure,» include rectilinear and curving forms and may be used as vessels or seating.

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson said: «As a platform for contemporary art, the Fourth Plinth has etched itself into the consciousness of people -LSB-...]

Rebecca Warren hints at a plinth in daubs of clay, while Shinique Smith fashions one out of old clothing, as in the Studio Museum's «Frequency.»

Gormley was speaking today as it was announced that he and Yinka Shonibare had won the contest to be the next two contemporary artists to fill the fourth plinth.

The instructions range from altering our social behaviour such as «When you are walking, stop and smile at a stranger» by Louise Bourgeois, to political with Ai Weiwei's instructions how to make a spray device to block a CCTV surveillance camera, to a DIY Plinth where Peter Saville gives the visitor instructions for the fabrication of a cardboard display plinth on which they can place an item of their cPlinth where Peter Saville gives the visitor instructions for the fabrication of a cardboard display plinth on which they can place an item of their cplinth on which they can place an item of their choice.

An enormous recreation of the Marc Quinn sculpture of disabled artist Alison Lapper pregnant similar to the one that was displayed in Trafalgar Square in 2005 as part of the Fourth Plinth commission has been featured as part of the opening ceremony for the 2012 Paralympics.

The symmetry and emptiness of the plinths appears at odds with the shambolic constructions that rest on top: these are hardly chaotic though as each element, whether it's a wine glass or a toy soldier, is precisely placed within the seeming disorder.

From his studies at St Martins, he rejected the traditionalist approach to sculpture and opted for a more radical approach to sculpture, using his own body as the subject of his pieces, and repositioning the plinth as his stage.

Although some of her most iconic large - scale works aren't in this exhibition, such as her commission for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square «Monument» (2001), and her haunting «Holocaust Memorial» (2000) which has a permanent location in Vienna, some smaller and equally iconic works are featured at the Tate Britain including «Untitled» (One Hundred Spaces)(1995), a composed of 100 casts of the negative space beneath a chair, arranged like sentinels guarding the imposing sweep of the Duveen Galleries, beyond the classical columns of the entrance.

Most of the artists» weekend itineraries didn't include the Hamptons, but television personality Bill Powers was there, as was Will Cotton, whose tower of cakes was so lavish it needed a metal stud to prevent the plinth's collapse.

Standing atop a plinth, spot lit against the flickering black and white animation, the creature's silhouette is caught as if mid-dance.

Also part of the show is the tremendous Parrhesia («Freedom of Speech», 2010), a collection of seven roughly painted papier - mâché head - like forms mounted with spikes on plinths, a haunting reminder of our democratic duty to speak out the truth, as we see it.