Sentences with phrase «century wunderkammer»

It traces the evolution of the collections from Athanasius Kircher's 17th - century Wunderkammer to modern museums, and points the way for projects yet to come.

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Incorporating elements of each, Rauschenberg's Collection resonates with the eighteenth - and nineteenth - century practice of gentlemen collectors accumulating objects into a Wunderkammer, or room of marvels.

Hancock's work has also been included in a number of significant group exhibitions, including Juxtapoz x Superflat, curated by Takashi Murakami and Evan Pricco, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, WA (2016 - 17), Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX (2016), When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (2014), Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX (2012), The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Armory, Kiev, Ukraine (2012), Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2008), Darger - ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY (2008), Political Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2005), Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2002), Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2000).

In a sort of contemporary Wunderkammer, viewers can admire amongst others a still - life by Pablo Picasso, a Takashi Murakami painting, 17th - and 18th - century vanitas paintings, as well as reinterpretations of the same theme by contemporary artists such as Peter Blake, Sarah Lucas and Vik Muniz.

See and buy art from over 130 of the world's leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th Century, as well as photography, sculpture and wunderkammer.

The Surrealists, in their turn, were fans of the Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, those rooms of oddities beloved of 17th - century scholars and kings.

Sections in the exhibition include a scene featuring over 50 of the most significant works in the collection — from antiquities to the twenty - first century; a section examining the Museum's large and rich collection of portraits and the nature of portraiture; and a contemporary Wunderkammer (Cabinet of Wonders) crowded with works of art and artifacts of various origins and materials arranged in unusual juxtapositions, among others.

Both shows make allusion to the voguish notion of the cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer, but each offers a different take on this 17th - century craze.