Sentences with phrase «conceptual text pieces»

Not exact matches

While covering a lot of formal and conceptual ground, I have insisted on keeping my characteristic hand - painted blocks of text in most pieces.

Thanks to developments in conceptual art in the 1970s, wherein artists, in the lineage of Joseph Kosuth, attempted to distill the artwork into the presentation of words and ideas rather than crafted objects — not to mention the recent vogue for archival ephemera as exhibition material — artists, curators, and museumgoers are well - acclimated to seeing pieces of text on display in museum galleries.

It was originally a journal begun in 1977 by a poet, anarchist, and artist in Chicago who had the idea to create a publication related to conceptual artist books, so instead of articles and essays it would have text pieces by artists and publishing projects.

These textual explorations are complemented by extensive documentation of related projects, both historical and contemporary, by artists, architects, and performance artists, including Coughing Piece, a never - before released 1961 audio work by Yoko Ono; an obscure audio work by Nauman from 1969; projects by Suzanne Lacy, a leading figure in the development of conceptual practice and public art; and an experimental text by Jane Rendell on psychic architectures.

The exhibition will also feature pieces by John Baldessari, whose works would often draw viewer's attention to minor details, absences or the spaces between things; Alfredo Jaar, multidisciplinary artists best known for his installation works; John McCracken, whose monochromatic sculptures explore the relationship between objects and their surrounding spaces; Bruce Nauman, whose conceptual works conceptual works that explore space, language, and the body; Lorna Simpson, whose photo - conceptualist works investigate the relationship between image and text; and Vassilakis Takis, a kinetic artist who uses electromagnetism to suspend human beings and objects in space.

Brokered by Christie's, the acquisition includes five early conceptual pieces by Nauman, as well as other works by Barry (the 1971 — 72 series of 81 slides with text It Can Seem to Be...), Joseph Beuys (the 1963 wood, chalk, terry cloth, oil and metal Fontana Dose), Hanne Darboven (51 ink - on - paper drawings from 1971 — 72), Jan Dibbets, Joseph Kusuth (the 1966 ink on paper mounted on aluminum Titled (Art as Idea as Idea)(Paint)-RRB- and Weiner.