ace London is to present Everything falls faster than an anvil, a group exhibition that explores the influence of
the cartoon on contemporary art.
Curated by CHEWDAY»S 6 - 10 Lexington Street 9 May to 18 June 2014 Pace London is delighted to present Everything falls faster than an anvil, a group exhibition that explores the influence of
the cartoon on contemporary art.
Not exact matches
I first saw this aged about 18 in Venice knowing little about
contemporary art, nothing about Robert Gober, and took it as a sort of
cartoon howl
on the nightmarish endlessness of painting.
The Influence of
Cartoons in
Contemporary Art, which was
on view at the Wexner Center's temporary Belmont Building Galleries in 2004.
The Cleveland Museum of
Art's latest acquisitions include a Virgin and Child, a rare 13th - century wooden sculpture from the Mosan region of Europe; a Standing Female Figure, a clay figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period
on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of
contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ
cartoons.
Historical and
contemporary works of art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and iconic objects, like the giant inflatable cartoon figure of Felix the Cat — the first image ever transmitted on TV — inhabit an «enchanted landscape» created in Nottingham Contemporary's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating with each other
contemporary works of
art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and iconic objects, like the giant inflatable
cartoon figure of Felix the Cat — the first image ever transmitted
on TV — inhabit an «enchanted landscape» created in Nottingham
Contemporary's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating with each other
Contemporary's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating with each other and with us.
Although my work doesn't look
on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political
cartoons and relate to Goya and other
art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and
contemporary worlds.
The Influence of
Cartoons in
Contemporary Art (2003); the acclaimed Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual
Art Since 1970 (2005); Black Light / White Noise: Sound and Light in
Contemporary Art (2007); Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image with Dr. Andrea Barnwell Brownlee (2009); Hand + Made: The Performative Impulse in
Art and Craft (2010); a major retrospective
on Benjamin Patterson, Born in the State of Flux / us, as well as the survey Donald Moffett: The Extravagant Vein (2011).
Historical and
contemporary works of
art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and iconic objects, like the giant inflatable
cartoon figure of Felix the Cat — the first image ever transmitted
on TV — inhabit an «enchanted landscape» created in the Pavilion's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating with each other and with us.
«Single - Cel Creatures:
Cartoons and their Influence
on the
Contemporary Arts,» Katonah Museum of
Art, Katonah, NY