Sentences with phrase «as point of departure»

Using the life and work of Kurt Schwitters and his exile in Norway in the 1930s as a point of departure, artists such as Kenneth Goldsmith, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Karl Holmqvist, Jutta Koether, Eline McGeorge and Selmer Nilsen presented works in various forms — homage, commentary and performance — providing a multi-dimensional take on Schwitters» life and art.

Taking this as a point of departure, the exhibition selects significant moments throughout contemporary art history, beginning with one of the early proponents and a member of Los Angeles» informal Light and Space movement, Robert Irwin.

Conner's A MOVIE (1958) serves as the point of departure for a trio of earlier films that laid the foundation for a cameraless cinema.

The space includes a life cast used as the point of departure for a sculpture, and an early concrete work entitled Room V (1990) which initiated the artist's dialogue between architecture as a form of body space and the body as an inhabited object.

Hughie O'Donoghue often uses historic events and figures from art history as a point of departure in his work.

As its point of departure, Funny Cuts takes, as its point of departure, Pop art's revolutionary referencing of comics and concludes with the most current trends in contemporary art, reflecting in many diverse ways its dialogue with the commercial and trivial picture worlds of comics and cartoons.

Taking as its point of departure the paradoxical nature of the self, this volume features substantial essays on and supporting images by such provocative international artists as Janet Cardiff, Maurizio Cattelan, Emanuel Danesch and David Rych, Mario García Torres, Amos Gitai, Jenny Holzer, Dennis Hopper, Jonathan Horowitz, Sanja Ivekovic, Amar Kanwar, David Lamelas, Ján Mancuska, Paul McCarthy, Boris Ondreicka, Sergio Prego, Pipilotti Rist, Hans Schabus, Cindy Sherman, Roman Signer, Monika Sosnowska, Salla Tykkä and Slaven Tolj.

Using the myth of Io and Jupiter as a point of departure, Lerma develops a body of work that touches on issues as varied as surveillance, mark making and the traditional relationship between artist and model.

Taking the Taller de los Viernes (The Friday Workshop)(1987 - 1992) as a point of departure, Guillermo Santamarina brings together Abraham Cruzvillegas, Damián Ortega, Dr. Lakra, Gabriel Kuri and Gabriel Orozco in order to conduct a new exercise in creative thinking.

Pinocchio, a puppet in search of his father, as their point of departure.

Laercio Redondo unearths memories, often using architecture and its practitioners as a point of departure.

Utilizing sculpture as a point of departure and source of inspiration, they explore the material conditions of our lives.

Simon will use the artwork as a point of departure to discuss how the artists use memory in their work.

Taking that spirit of invention and discovery as its point of departure, this exhibition features the work of seven artists — Matthew Brandt, Marco Breuer, John Chiara, Chris McCaw, Lisa Oppenheim, Alison Rossiter, and James Welling — who focus their investigations on the light sensitivity and chemical processing of photographic papers, challenging us to see the medium anew.

The work is taken as a point of departure.

It was only a matter of time, however, before artists began to see this parallel, between the visual language of painting and that of commerce — between the visual language of painting and that of commerce — as the point of departure for a new kind of art.

The Quality of Presence is a group exhibition that employs Walter Benjamin's seminal text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction as a point of departure, and extends Benjamin's argument of a diminishing «aura» of an artwork to the architectural space that encompasses it.

Presenting both mixed media on canvas paintings as well as leather and wood sculptures, Hlobo's newest body of work makes use of the migratory patterns of eels as a point of departure, and reconsiders as allegory the personal transformation necessary to his own artistic journey.

Salcedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means.

At Venus Over Manhattan, Harlan takes as his point of departure the book The Descent of the Goddess Ishtar Into the Lower World.

The noted portrait photographer employs photography as a point of departure for a series of new paintings that show the ways in which photography (and its translation into other media) can leave a lot of questions hovering about what represents reality.

A group exhibition featuring work by a range of Mexico and U.S - based artists takes as its point of departure the»90s NAFTA years, a period of great change, when Mexico came out of a relative period of isolation, and when the local and the global became one.

On view is Albee's Radical Feminist Therapy series, which looks at Bonnie Burstow's Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence (published in 1992) as point of departure.

Like Twombly, there is a sense in which he uses narratives as a point of departure, but does not allow the tale to determine its outcome, rather allowing the hand and visual organisation to dictate the painting's pace.

Taking images from the Internet, as well as his own manipulated iPhone pictures as a point of departure, the artist creates pale pictures that beautifully capture their subjects like fading memories.

Selected by Dexter Dalwood, he uses the year 1971 as the point of departure to explore cultural activity in the western world.

This new series takes the Visual Candy paintings of the 1990s as a point of departure and embraces color and gestural painting on a large scale.

The exhibition takes as its point of departure a moment in the abstract movement of the post-war era, when dominant international vocabularies became entangled with traditional Asian painting in the work of a few artists, working independently and in disparate contexts.

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.

Using Paul Bowles» novel The Sheltering Sky as a point of departure, Amy Granat created an immersive environment of projected images for her 2010 exhibition at The Kitchen, NYC.

Taking their work on view as a point of departure, six Biennial artists, including Martin Kersels, Ari Marcopoulos, and Aki Sasamoto, among others, will explore a key aspect of their practice to create distinctive evenings of performance, discussion, demonstration, and engagement.

Taking as its point of departure the historic competition between the East and West coasts, Sibling Rivalries transforms the traditional «competitive» understanding of the term.

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.

Using the Hollywood headshot as his point of departure, Samaras captures his subjects» heads lit from below, sculpting their features with disconcerting light and revealing often concealed vulnerabilities and personas.

Levine is known for her habit of using modernist artworks as a point of departure for her own work.

The group exhibition «More Than Just Words [On the Poetic]» is taking the idea of the poetic function of communication as a point of departure for ways of expressing thoughts and ideas beyond semantic unambiguity.

Taking 18th century furniture archetypes as his point of departure, Mr. Brajkovic makes innovative tables and chairs that mix surreal forms with fine woodcarving, bronze casting and embroidered fabrics.

Paiva uses this title as a point of departure, reflecting visually on the irony of the words in the context of the city's framework, whilst using the material itself to mount a discourse on the urban dialectic.

Using Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities as a point of departure, presents works by 13 Hong Kong and international artists and filmmakers.

It takes as its point of departure the work of the Cuban American artist Felix Gonzalez - Torres (1957 - 1996).

Occupying both floors of the massive gallery, the exhibition features one of the first works that the artist made of his own body using a plaster mold and a lead skin, titled Bridge, from his 1985 series Bodycases, and a new work that takes the grid of horizontal and vertical lines in Bridge as the point of departure for a freestanding sculpture that maps the internal volumes of the body.

The course took the Walker exhibition Question the Wall Itself, particularly the practice of Marcel Broodthaers, as a point of a departure to investigate methods of critique immanent to the work.

Taking this film as its point of departure, the exhibition deploys a body of work from the early 1970s, which has recently been acquired for the Leeds collection.

With this prologue as a point of departure, The MoUS exhibits a diverse collection of artistic practice concerning the language of an exhibition within an institutional context.

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.

An autobiographical dialogue with Dudek's own past underpins this discussion, taking his own experiences of violent football subculture and post-Soviet societal climate as a point of departure.

The artists take an archaeological excavation as a point of departure to imagine and represent non-hierarchal, pre-historical or futuristic civilizations, imagined through ambitious new sculptural works and wall paintings.

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.

A 2016 - 17 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, and resident in the Spring 2017 Research & Development Season at the New Museum, Burns is developing a cycle of multi-media installations that use speculative fiction as a point of departure.

Using William Gibson's writings on atemporality as a point of departure, Hoptman culled canvases registering traces of earlier styles and times — from Kazimir Malevich's utopian abstraction to Barnett Newman's heroic zips to the title of a Lucio Fontana painting — in sometimes overt, sometimes clandestine ways.