Sentences with phrase «cabinet of curiosities which»

Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto gives a tour of his private cabinet of curiosities which includes meteorites, stone age tools, and whimsical toys.

The exhibition extends the tradition of the wunderkammern, cabinets of curiosities which arose in sixteenth - century Europe as repositories for wondrous and exotic objects drawn from natural, manmade, and artificial worlds.

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But we're now going to walk into my favourite gallery in the entire exhibition, which is The Cabinet of Curiosities and it's the most overwhelmingly, breathtakingly beautiful space.

The film, which will be released by Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions, is a blend of the graceful and the garish that reaches for magic but ends up more of a cabinet of curiosities than one of wonder.

One of his most famous works, the Tate Thames Dig, was executed in three phases: an archeological dig, the cleaning and classifying of objects, and the display, which consisted of «Cabinets of Curiosities» consisting of items like plastic toys, oyster shells, and clay pipes, challenging institutional and museological discourses.

The exhibition, which opened on September 5 and will be on view through January 3, 2016, greets visitors with a cabinet of curiosities - like display of work spanning history and geography.

Using these parameters the faculty members created personal cabinets of curiosity, or wunderkammer, which will be presented over the course of the exhibition.

During the upcoming special weekend, Julian is having his third solo show with the gallery Dittrich & Schlechtriem, «Into the Hollow» in which the artist transforms the space into a sort of cabinet of geological curiosities.

They set the objects within an environment designed by themselves, woven together with imagery from the Institute archive, to create a sort of family tableau or cabinet of curiosity, in which art works, plinths and walls play an equal role.

Inside his extraordinary library made specially for the Whitechapel Gallery lies a warmly lit cabinet of curiosities above which a vast mirror reflects a beam of light, transforming it into rungs of a ladder to infinity.

As a collector of African art, cabinet of curiosities and other artifacts, Benes found beauty and meaning in relics of human life and culture, which was endemic to his art.

These objects, which are loaded with personal and historical meaning, contribute to the overall suggestion of the exhibition — that is it is a post-colonial cabinet of curiosity.