Sentences with phrase «collective general idea»

He has worked and lived together with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal as the artists» collective General Idea for 25 years, until their collaboration was terminated with the death of both Zontal and Partz in 1994.

His good friend and fineartmultiple gallery partner, Carolina Nitsch, hosted a special celebratory dinner for the artist — who helped redefine contemporary art alongside his collective General Idea and set up the NY Art Book Fair — at his favorite restaurant in Basel.

In the late 1970s Stathacos became associated with the art collective General Idea, eventually moving to New York and sharing a studio with the group's founders, AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal.

Formed in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, the artist collective General Idea built its body of work on a strikingly diverse array of themes, constantly revisiting both the field of contemporary art production and the identity politics of the era that ultimately underscores so much of the artist's act of world - making, critique and expression.

The Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and»80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus.

Aggressive in its politics and visual language, the project by the activist collective General Idea was an integral piece of art history at the time.

In the 1980s and 1990s, artists like David Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Gober, the artist collective General Idea, and Felix Gonzalez - Torres used their work to raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic and the devastation it wrought.

From 11 February, the Musée d'Art Moderne da la Ville de Paris / ARC presents Haute Culture, a retrospective devoted to the work of the Canadian collective General Idea.

Not exact matches

Founded in Toronto in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal, General Idea would go on to produce a series of elaborate projects that acted as supports for this collective persona, such as the sprawling, multipart Miss

Playing on a monitor at the entrance to the retrospective exhibition «General Idea: Broken Time» at the Museo Jumex, Pilot (1977), which the group made for Ontario public television, is a thirty - minute deadpan documentary on the pageant that provides an introduction to the collective's interests and sensibilities.

Titled The Armoury of the Miss General Idea Pavillion: Control Group, 1990, the social and political bent of the defunct collective seems apropos for 2016.

General Idea, the Toronto - based art collective, did something similar with its Miss General Idea pageant, though only one of the four winners of the annual event, held in Toronto from 1968 to 1971, was a man; the competition wasn't about gender so much as it was about art as a system for producing value and fame.

General Idea's painting in HOMOGENIUS is entitled «Crème de la Crème de la Crème», oil on canvas, 42 ″ x 42 ″, and is described by this collective as «General Idea's stylized geometric poodle machines go through the motions simulating sex tableau vivant in a post-empire manner».

The artists feature some of today's most influential figures: Ashley Bickerton, Jessica Diamond, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Joel Otterson, Richard Prince, Erika Rothenberg, Sarah Charlesworth, Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman and Julia Wachtel, as well as artist collectives and projects such as ACT UP Gran Fury, The Offices, General Idea, Fashion Moda and Guerrilla Girls.

As he settles into a black leather armchair next to a taxidermied fox, he outlines upcoming exhibitions and projects that encompass his multifaceted career as a member of the General Idea collective, a spiritual healer, the director of Printed Matter and an independent artist.

In the 1970s and»80s, performance art ranged from Laurie Anderson's elaborate media spectacles to Carolee Schneeman's body ritual and from the camp glamour of the collective known as General Idea to Joseph Beuys's illustrated lectures.

Other collectives have included the Canadian group General Idea, the Chilean group CADA (Art Action Collective), and the Peruvian group Parenthesis.