Sentences with phrase «confrontation with the viewer»

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1968, Geers's work spans various mediums, employing forced confrontation with the viewer by subverting allusions to pop culture and art history.

In the»80s Fischl's large figurative paintings, aggressive in their confrontation with the viewer, began to receive attention.

Speaking of Peri, Martin Herbert, art critic for Artforum and Frieze, and European Editor of Modern Painters states, «his artworks suggest, but never reduce themselves to, an externalised entity, an embodied intelligence that stands in confrontation with the viewer, even when the work is seemingly near - abstract.»

Not exact matches

While most observant viewers will already have formed opinions as to the worthiness of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the complicit role that the media plays in sidestepping confrontation with government officials in favor of pleasing target demographics, these aren't the overriding themes of the film.

As Gormley states, «Both works on exhibit are catalysts for proprioceptive awareness, rendering the volumes of the new Sean Kelly gallery into a reflexive chamber in which the viewers» passage through space and confrontation with mass is activated and registered.»

The latest solo exhibition from the British artist offers viewers a variety of objects which play with scale and materials while continuing the artist's longstanding narrative involving sex, repression and confrontation.

Examples include a 1968 poster by Viennese Actionist Günter Brus proclaiming «Kunst und Revolution,» a suite of miniature paintings by Wilhelm Sasnal depicting victorious black athletes in the ’68 Olympic Games who used their moments of glory to espouse Black Panther politics, a sculpture by Fausto Melotti memorializing the victims of political oppression, a mirror piece by Rashid Johnson exhorting its viewer to «run» (suggesting confrontations with the American police), and, of course, McCarthy's blistering artistic attacks on George W. Bush, one involving the former president having sex with a pig.

The two cubes embody two strong, yet metaphysical, declarations on the deconstruction of human hypostasis leading to the viewer's confrontation with their very own corporeal detritus.

So perhaps this is why the viewer's gaze is met with a sense of contempt and even confrontation.

She takes on the uneasy confrontation, when the viewer has to negotiate a new relationship with the miniature, see it as not representing other than itself, a disproportionate constructed object in the full - scale world.

As beautiful as it is sensually overwhelming, CATALIN forces viewers into direct confrontation with the double - edged sword of human progress and hubris.

Titled Narcissus Garden (1966) the piece drew together many threads of Kusama's work, most predominantly the mirror and the orb, and offered a beautiful composition that up close was a confrontation of the viewer with themselves in the reflecting surface.