Sentences with phrase «banal materials»

Takahiro Iwasaki (b. Hiroshima, 1975) transforms everyday banal materials such as toothbrushes, towels, bookmarks, and duct tapes into steel towers, cranes, and delicate nature landscapes.

Their innovative works are lyrical, open - ended combinations of unlikely fragments - a slab of marble with a lettuce, or fruit scattered among neon tubes - giving the most banal materials a metaphysical dimension.

Creed has become particularly renowned for his aggressive deployment of a range of seemingly banal materials such as a blob of blu - tak stuck in the center of a wall, sheets of letter paper that are filled in with highlighter or ballpoint pen, collections of an enormous variety of balls, stacks of lumber, or neon spelling out simple words or phrases such as «Things», «Feelings» or «Everything is going to be alright».

Using banal materials, he focuses the viewer's attention on impressions of physicality rather than distinct forms.

For example, we can see Judd's relief — a banal material, shaped and folded according to simple rules to produce a surprisingly visually engaging object — as anticipating a work like Tauba Auerbach's plywood sculpture, The New Ambidextrous Universe III (2014), which the artist created by water - jet - cutting the material according to a meandering line she drew on a tablet and distorted digitally, then arranging the resulting pieces on the ground in reverse order.

These artists take domestic and relatively banal material and subtly shift it through minor alterations in context and / or fabrication.

Not exact matches

If you cut through Lucas» thickets of self - reflexivity, metaphysical mumbo jumbo and banal potshots at media violence, there are three ace performances here by actors who can elevate and enliven even as mediocre a piece of material as this.

This material seems ripe for an expository montage, but it becomes an extended setpiece, lasting nearly 30 minutes and offering little more than sketchy CGI and banal dialogue.

The strength of Tiravanija's work lies precisely in its ephemerality, and the slippery ways it escapes definition, the way it takes the material of the every - day and re-stages it, allowing the viewer a perspective at once banal and deeply profound about the quickly fleeting nature of life itself.

McBride's White Elephant sculpture suggests HVAC ductwork from an imaginary building, but is crafted in copper, a material too precious to be used for such a banal industrial application.

Improvisation has fueled his inspiration for pushing the material boundaries of glass beyond something banal and he is not afraid of taking risks to establish his own artistic license.

Carefully building a nuanced soundtrack whereby even the collective voice of its re-enactors never drowns out the source material, what might be an otherwise banal video collage eloquently reveals our personal response to nostalgic ephemera to be a whisper relative to the flat and highly constructed voice of pop culture.

With saturated, artificial skin tones and banal - yet - elevated objects, his portraits display a Pop Art sensibility towards material culture.

In the same year Ossorio made Offering, he participated in the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition The Art of Assemblage, which introduced his work to a wider public along with the broader concept of assemblage, where «banal, often tawdry materials retain their individual physical and functional identity, despite artistic manipulation.»

Although the work created by the Castelli circle — a group that included figures such as Richard Serra (b. 1938), Bruce Nauman (b. 1941), and Robert Morris (b. 1931)-- varied widely, all of those artists shared an interest in process, impermanence, variability, and the subversive potential of banal or industrial materials.

Byrne is recognized for his innate ability to create extraordinary visual and sensory experiences out of ordinary and mundane materials, elevating the most banal of subjects to a high art form.

Even more astonishing was to see that such sophisticated patterns of design and color were made out of the most banal of materials: plastic — or, more specifically, polyester resin.

Her installations, created with rubbish, discarded objects and the detritus of everyday life, combine the anonymous and banal nature of the materials (wood, stone, cement, metal) with a sense of the immediacy, spontaneity and poetry that pervades them.

Working with seductive commercial materials such as the high chromium stainless steel of his «Balloon Dog» sculptures or his vinyl «Inflatables», shifts of scale, and an elaborate studio system involving many technicians, Koons turns banal objects into high art icons.

Drawing on found objects (and people), kitsch and the banal, Philadelphia - based artist Alex Da Corte makes multimedia work that belies its material origins.

This movement initiated the idea that art can be created from all sorts of stuff, including the most banal everyday scraps of material.

Worked as a fund - raiser for the New York Museum of Modern Art, before achieving major acclaim as a contemporary Neo-Pop artist, best known for his gigantic sculptures of banal and / or pop - culture objects such as toys, animals and celebrities, made from unusual, highly coloured materials.

His paintings, linear representations of banal scenes, combined a Pop - style mockery of pictorial illusion and a Minimalist reliance on industrial materials (his favored support was Celotex, a textured ground created from sugarcane pressed over panels).

Junk Art A sub-genre of «found art», pioneered by Duchamp, Picasso, Schwitters and Rauschenberg, and characterized by the use of banal, everyday materials.

In this way the works create a fascination for the banal, as the artist shapes basic raw materials, stretching and extending forms before freezing them at their fixed, final stage.

Benbenisty transforms objects, images, ready - mades, ephemeral materials and texts from the everyday, the banal, the ordinary, moving towards the unique, the individual.

K.O. - A number of critics are addressing the culture of cuteness that is so pervasive in the art world right now.2 Your work moves from the advanced psychological and philosophical material with which you are engaged (like the title of your recent exhibit at West Virginia University, «Ever - Pre-Given,» taken from a 1971 essay by Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar) to these cute, banal pop motifs, such as the repeated smiley faces in Summer of Hate, 2015.