Sentences with phrase «as utilitarian objects»

In 1995, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski curated an exhibition Take Me (I'm Yours) that had brought together thirteen international artists with an extraordinary selection of works functioning on two levels — as utilitarian objects and as artworks.

Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition brought together artists from Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Austria and America with an extraordinary selection of works that functioned on two levels — as utilitarian objects and as works of art.

Traditionally painted by the women of the tribes, parfleche were made as utilitarian objects for the Native Americans themselves to carry things like clothes, tools, food, and medicine on horseback — and as souvenirs sold to European Americans touring the West.

Jillian Mayer: Slumpies a body of sculptures that function as utilitarian objects, presented on PAMM's outdoor terrace as well as in the Vattikuti Learning Theater on the museum's first floor Routes of Influence juxtaposes artworks in a manner that maps how aesthetic concepts move fluidly across traditional, national or cultural lines, how «influence» in art is understood today as multi-directional, rather than linear in character.

Explore the cultural diversity and rich history of Africa's people through works made from ancient stone, clay, wood, and metal, as well as utilitarian objects, musical instruments, ceremonial costumes and contemporary paintings.

The subtly altered forms become a sculptural proposition cloaking itself as a utilitarian object that should be placed in a salt mine until the year 2300 to see what people make of it.

Not exact matches

Gallery On Collection Tiki (1-9-10 Ebisu - Minami, Shibuya - ku, 3711 - 8678) epitomizes contemporary Japanese design with stone floors, wood slab tables and a changing roster of shows that usually feature utilitarian objects such as carved bowls or handblown glassware.

RR: Cardboard is presented as utilitarian boxes as well as playful objects, transformed into houses, worlds, and images.

The 8th edition of ZONAMACO Diseño will present a selection of international exhibitors featuring limited edition objects as well as modern and contemporary design, ranging from collectible furniture to limited edition furniture and utilitarian and decorative objects.

In these works, blue gazing balls, hand blown from glass, have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmas.

Holdings include body adornment and utilitarian objects; religious items such as Coptic scrolls from Ethiopia and an Islamic prayer board from Uganda; and modern paintings, sculptures, and ceramics by artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Amir Nour, Ibrahim El - Salahi, and Magdalene Odundo.

That notion is here realized in a concatenation of such utilitarian objects as a shovel, a bicycle wheel, and a bottle rack.

Named for a genre of North American folk art in which everyday utilitarian objects such as vases are coated with a claylike substance and then embedded with small objects including shells, beads and buttons, Kelley's Memory Ware series consists both of wall - hung works (known as Memory Ware Flats) and freestanding pieces.

While abstract at its core, Von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects — such as the artist's collection of household vessels — and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man - made meets nature.

He was not interested in fabricating utilitarian objects, such as the workers» uniforms designed by Aleksandr Rodchenko or the teacups and saucers made by second - rate Productivists.

The resulting sculptures play a game of visual deception as the handmade simulates that which is industrially fabricated: Wood disguises itself as metal and plastic, and sculpture takes the form of a seemingly utilitarian object.

«The New - York Historical Society explores how shoes have transcended their utilitarian purpose to become representations of culture — coveted as objects of desire, designed with artistic consideration, and expressing complicated meanings of femininity, power, and aspiration for women and men alike.

The exhibition opened with MoMA's first decade, including such iconic works as Edward Hopper's House by the Railroad (acquired in 1930), Paul Cézanne's The Bather (acquired in 1934) Constantin Brancusi's Bird in Space (acquired in 1934), as well as Walker Evans's Posed Portraits, New York (acquired in 1938), Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (acquired in 1936), and utilitarian, machine - made objects, such as an outboard propeller, a flush valve, and a self - aligning ball bearing (acquired in 1934).

Courbet's painting positions women as the butt of a joke: as either an erotic object or a utilitarian object.

The result is a work of art composed of multiple objects that were once singular and utilitarian and are now presented as one work that is imbued with entirely different aesthetic and conceptual qualities.

In the aptly titled exhibition, the artist introduces low relief sculptures and drawings to comment on cultural and psychological undertones of furnitures, not only as mundane utilitarian objects, but also as witnesses and vessels of human experience.

The Art Center first exhibited her work in 1987 as part of a three - person exhibition also organized by Richard Born who then described her tapestries as «simultaneously utilitarian objects and works of independent beauty intended both for use and appreciation at the same time.»

She often combines ceramic elements, beautifully handcrafted, with utilitarian items, such as toilet plungers or buckets, to create pieces that call into question the cultural and historic meaning of particular objects or images.

I have had a longtime interest in seemingly ordinary everyday objects such as collectible and utilitarian items.

Functional objects, such as his infamous sculpture Fountain (1917), were divorced from their utilitarian purpose and designated — as opposed to made — by Duchamp as works of art.

Within the old industrial heart of Birmingham, discarded, utilitarian objects have been collected as if they were trophies of an ignored parallel world — a dark, abject monument.

The Malaysian - born, London - based artist uses the overly precious setting of the gallery space to pull objects — cooking utensils, kitchen fittings, plastic tubs, sheets of jute, etc — out of their utilitarian context in such a way as to force viewers to think about them as discrete objects, or things in and of themselves, while in the process challenging the assumptions we make about their functionality and attendant concerns such as, for example, the social status of the person who might own such an object, its role in their lives and that relation in respect to one's own style of living.

Von Rydingsvard's organic, gesturally potent works allude to the landscape, body, and common utilitarian objects such as spoons, shovels, and bowls.

Without today's increasingly active craft - oriented community, products that we take for granted, such as numerous utilitarian objects built from handmade tools, rather than via machine or sweatshop, would have disappeared.

In the late 1960s, Guston's abstractions gradually evolved into stark, semi-figurative forms, beginning with heads and later simple, utilitarian objects, such as books, light bulbs, and shoes.

The ceramic objects are often echoes of utilitarian objects or replacing the action of the body with a strong connection to psychoanalytic theory as well as art history.

Hand - blown from glass, the blue gazing balls have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco - Roman era along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban and rural landscape, such as mailboxes and a birdbath.

Her art often resembles utilitarian objects such as tools, which act as an anchor to another, more tactile and physical era.

Shaver uses utilitarian materials as a force of transformation, whereby the everyday object is recast as a unique abstraction through a layering of materials and crafted geometric shapes.

As for the transformation part, «Circumstance» shakes up spacial expectations by morphing the museum into a maze of intersecting installations, where craft, found, utilitarian, historical design, and everyday objects sit beside works of art.

Leonard's approach to photography engages with its history as a utilitarian, vernacular, and popular medium; similarly, her sculptures are often composed of found objects — commonplace items that bear signs of their use.

The suspension of meaning through a liminality (threshold) of expectation is of particular relevance to understanding Boursier - Mougenot, since he intends his objects to always remain substantially what they are as objects»» even as their former utilitarian functions have been stripped away, or redirected to other creative ends and purposes.

Both of their works have the quality of a rugged handmade sign post - visual art objects, but created as though they serve some utilitarian purpose.

Duchamp himself had contributed to the movement, largely by depicting what he called «ready - mades,» (utilitarian articles such as snow shovels and bottle racks) signing the resulting pictures, and presenting the result as objects of art rather than objects made for everyday use.

Learn to crochet them into sculptural forms or utilitarian objects such as wall sculptures, rugs, or tote bags.

In this national juried exhibition, functional art refers to aesthetic objects that serve a utilitarian purpose — how the artist expresses him / herself in items such as clothing, textiles, jewelry, tableware, tools, fixtures and furniture.

More interesting are the objects that have been taken out of their utilitarian context, such as Floyer's Wish you were here (2008), which is an empty postcard stand (and bears a passing resemblance to Duchamp's Bottle Rack [1914]-RRB-.

Utilitarian objects, such as these mother - of - pearl - handle knives found on eBay, become prized collectibles in the homeowner's dreamy Swedish style.

Paint exposed pipes or ducts the same hue as their surroundings to trick the eye and make the utilitarian objects appear less prominent.