The installative total
context of his exhibitions forms narrative contexts between the individual pieces that lead to the viewer to a fantastic world of associations.
Not exact matches
In the
context of the Center for Book Arts, Canceled highlights the book
form as a crucial means
of disseminating documentation and information on a wide and accessible scale, potentially in ways that are more historically stable, and more effective, than the original
exhibition would have been.
Throughout the duration
of the
exhibition, her performers continuously enact a
form of live installation in the gallery and the museum's outdoor spaces, bridging the conceptual and physical divide between performer and object, bystander and viewer, while addressing the ways in which dance and the spectacle
of performance are presented in theatrical and
exhibition contexts.
The
exhibition incorporated a diverse range
of media including photography, film, video, fashion, and other
forms of popular culture and prompts rich discussions about the contested ways that African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary
contexts.
Prepare for his intimate
form of performance to leap back into the discussion this month with the opening
of «The Rituals
of Rented Island,» a Whitney
exhibition that explores his work in the
context of the rambunctious»70s avant - garde.
In the
exhibition «Drawn from the Antique», set in the
context of his beloved home, visitors explore the honing
of the classical
form in rarely seen loaned works by artists such as Rubens, JMW Turner RA and Henry Fuseli RA.
The
exhibition will offer a new perspective on these two artists, who, though strikingly different in their approach, each examine questions related to the
context in which their works are shown, while addressing the art - historical debate on the politics
of form.
The focus
of Domènec's research and critical essay is precisely the crisis
of modernity and an awareness
of the failures
of the modern movement, which, in the
context of this
exhibition, is materialised in the
form of sculptures, installations, photographs, videos and interventions in the public space.
Now on display at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the work
forms the basis for a small but enlightening
exhibition, exploring the
context in which it was produced and showing something
of the effect it had on the contemporary art world.
Upcoming at Virginia Museum
of Fine Arts Posing Beauty in African American Culture April 27 — July 26 This
exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary
contexts through a diverse range
of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other
forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.
The multi-part
exhibition project Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989 — 2017 explores the potentials
of publishing — in the
form of books, magazines, journals, artistic interventions, websites — as a particular medium and
context both to circulate information, knowledge — and to produce art.
This
exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary
contexts through a diverse range
of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other
forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.
The
exhibition explored in depth the relationship
of radical politics to art, by providing visitors with factual
context in the
form of historical objects that brought home the social and historical realities the movement faced, interspersed with historic artwork that supported and reflected its circumstances and ideals, as well as contemporary pieces.
[i] Bunga's retransformation is an appropriate first
exhibition, delicately balancing the
context of the space while referencing its dual aesthetic through the
forms he uses: classical colonnade and apse, as well as contemporary building scaffolding.
The weaving
of nature into the building
form further establishes a visual dialogue within the
context and a space for outdoor
exhibitions.
Presented as static transparent objects, taken out
of their peripheral
context, they
form a new central space in the
exhibition.
Brought together into the
context of a single
exhibition space, they
form a vigorous and shifting social dynamic akin to a live stage performance, energetic children's playground, or bustling subway platform.
More importantly, Chun's interdisciplinary
exhibition delves into language as
form, sound, writing and a process
of subjugation in the
context of a non-native speaker assimilating to a culture.
If Mirren often plays on her Russian heritage in interviews, and draws on her British working class background in other
contexts — in what has become a polarised
form of role play to manipulate the media's perception
of her — then the images used in this
exhibition represent her corresponding parts for film and television that show issues
of domination, subjugation and control, such as in The Queen, Caligula and Prime Suspect.
The solo
exhibition by Polish visual and performance artist Justyna Scheuring, who lives and works in London, brings together sign language interpreters and consecutive translators, in order to compose a performance through a multitude
of voices and
forms of expression to question issues
of identity in a
context of personal trauma, global migration and the experience
of otherness.
Through various
forms of technology — video projections, virtual reality, digital installations, and film — used within the
exhibition galleries, DS+R has created atmospheric scenes that convey imagined functional and social
contexts for Chareau's work.»
By picking up on these relations built over time with people we have previously been put in
context with, we wish to operate from within the structure
of the group
exhibition and open up for a collective process in the
forming of the show.
Interestingly, while turning the viewer's attention to what one would normally dismiss — and certainly not warrant close inspection — the work takes various
forms and affects, not only in relation to the space it is exhibited in and in terms
of scale, but also in accordance to its designated
context, be it a solo or a group
exhibition (in the latter case shaping the viewing experience
of other artists» works on display).
Adam adds: «The
exhibition draws on the
context of Bluecoat as a centre for the arts, an organisation that hosts an array
of art
forms.
The title
of the
exhibition not only refers to the term transference in a psychoanalytic
context with its meaning
of a trauma transferred from patient to analyst, but serves as an analogy to the changing connotations
of forms seen within different
contexts.
Launched during our Diversity and Inclusion Week, this
exhibition appraised works in the collection in the
context of environmental, financial and political uncertainty, and
formed the subject
of talks and tours as part
of that programme.
These
forms of objection and commentary are uniquely possible in the
context of art and the work
of many artists in the
exhibition has a continuing presence and widespread impact on public life.
Through paintings, sculpture, works on paper, a notebook, and other ephemera, as well as Adler's numerous photographs from this period, this
exhibition explores how the
context of life in New York informed and
formed Basquiat's artistic practice.
Edwards, and a handful
of other black artists working abstractly, like Edward Clark, Fred Eversley, Alma Thomas, Tom Lloyd, William T. Williams, Jack Whitten, have received recent critical attention in the
form of museum
exhibitions, elite gallery representation, and now, a deepened art historical
context for their work within the wider frame
of late modernism.
Group
exhibitions include: Languages and Experimentations, Mart, Rovereto (2010), Richard Prince and the Revolution (curated by Jonathan Monk), ProjecteSD, Barcelona, The Associates, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (both 2009), Contemporary Scottish Art: New Acquistitions & Loans, Scottish National Gallery
of Modern Art, Edinburgh, On Interchange / Interludes
of a Collection, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve (both 2008), Tate Triennial: New British Art, Tate Britain, London (2006), The Last Generation, Apex Art, New York, Solo Show Solo Soul, FRAC Haute - Normandie, Rouen, Herald Street & The Modern Institute present, GBE, New York, Theorema, Collection Lambert: Musèe d'art d'Avignon, Avignon (all 2005), Genesis Sculpture, Domaine Pommery, Reims (2004),
Context,
Form, Troy (Young Scene 03), Secession, Vienna (2003).
Extending the artist's core reference point
of 1965 - 1975, when artists begin to more precisely take control
of the
exhibition context and resulting in the immediacy
of new
forms such as performance, installation and new media.
Taking theatre as an open ended process with its multiple
contexts and references, the
exhibition acts as catalyst for performances, screenings, talks and other
forms of engagement.
one - person
exhibition 1996 Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, «Obsession» group
exhibition 1995 TZ» Art & Co., New York, Testwall installation Museum
of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, «The Language
of Place,» group
exhibition curated by Sarah Rogers (Wexner Center, Director
of Exhibitions) 1993 SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, «
Form Out
of Context,» four - person
exhibition 1992 «American Pluralism» group
exhibition curated by Terry Barrett.
Irreverence toward a material's original function (and
context), preciousness in its preservation, and fetishization
of its
form (divorced from its original function) are central to Sibony's sensibility, and apparent in his current
exhibition at Greene Naftali Gallery.
The aim is to offer a complete and multiform publication that addresses the historical
context of «When Attitudes Become
Form»; themes like the reconstruction and the «reenactment»
of objects, settings and
exhibitions; and the curator's creative practice, thinking and decisions.
This
exhibition celebrates cacophony and material - crossing whilst floating between physicality and significance, to consider alternative
forms of artistic expression looking at a
context - based sensoriality as opposed to direct representation.
Set within the
context of our Tom Lovelace solo
exhibition This Way Up, Flowers Gallery is hosting a panel discussion on the relationship between photographic
form, functionality and status.
(catalogue) Persona, The Renaissance Society at the University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Switzerland 1995 It's How You Play The Game, Exit Art, New York; curated by Thelma Golden, Nancy Spector, Robert Storr, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo Strung Into the Appolonian Dream... an
exhibition of a private collection, Feature, NYC, NY Seven Llongish Wodden Sculptures, Feature, New York, NY 1994 The Ecstasy
of Limits, Gallery 400, School
of Art and Design, UIC, Chicago, IL Amenities, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute
of Art and Design, Milwaukee 1993 A Sequence
of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection
of Robert J. Shiffler, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Urbana - Champaign, IL; I Space, University
of Urbana - Champaign Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School
of the Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1991 Office Party, (March) Feature, New York, NY Power: Its Icons, Myths and Structure in American Culture 1961 - 1991, Museum
of Fine Art, Richmond VA: curated by Holliday T. Day (catalogue) 1990 Toward the Future Contemporary Art in
Context, Museum
of Contemporary Art, Chicago Awards in the Visual Arts, New Orleans Museum
of Art, New Orleans, LA; Southeastern The Thing Itself, Feature, New York, NY (brochure) New Generations Chicago, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; curated by Elaine A. King (catalogue) Half - Truths, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY; curated by Marge Goldwater 1989 On Kawara: Date Paintings 1966 - 1988, The Renaissance Society at the University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL Signs
of Life: Contemporary American Sculpture, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian; Fundacao Luso - Americana Para O Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Judith Russi Kirshner.
Never Ending Stories presents the first extensive examination
of the loop phenomenon in art, films, architecture, music and literature in a
context of a museum
exhibition, taking a comprehensive interdisciplinary look at the subject at hand by keeping in perspective factors like time, place,
form and content.
Together these
exhibition projects consider the essential components and fundamental dynamics
of aesthetic experience: light, color, pictorial
form, the
context of the
exhibition.
In this
exhibition, her 9th with the gallery, D'Arrigo continues to consider the possibilities for integrating painting, drawing, improvisational process and animated sculptural
form within the
context of the ceramic vessel.
★ METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
OF ART: «JERUSALEM 1000 - 1400: EVERY PEOPLE UNDER HEAVEN» (through Jan. 8) Three major faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — have called Jerusalem their own, and its varying histories as a sacred space, a theater of conflict and a cosmopolitan cultural emporium are reflected in this exhibition modeled along classic Met epic lines: 200 fascinating objects from 60 international collections, with a time frame in the past and context in the present (in the form of short videos in each gallery
OF ART: «JERUSALEM 1000 - 1400: EVERY PEOPLE UNDER HEAVEN» (through Jan. 8) Three major faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — have called Jerusalem their own, and its varying histories as a sacred space, a theater
of conflict and a cosmopolitan cultural emporium are reflected in this exhibition modeled along classic Met epic lines: 200 fascinating objects from 60 international collections, with a time frame in the past and context in the present (in the form of short videos in each gallery
of conflict and a cosmopolitan cultural emporium are reflected in this
exhibition modeled along classic Met epic lines: 200 fascinating objects from 60 international collections, with a time frame in the past and
context in the present (in the
form of short videos in each gallery
of short videos in each gallery).
The artist has gained recent attention; having been relatively forgotten since Chillida's Guggenheim
exhibition in 1980, and represents a now familiar European Post-war sculpture; with works investigating
form, space, and material usage in sculptural practice, site - specific, weighty objects reflecting architecture and nature, here seemingly taken a little out
of context.
For his solo
exhibition with Chelsea» David Zwirner, Ming uses Francisco Goya «s Black Paintings as the starting point to explore a new
form of painted collage by abstracting the content and appropriating an existing narrative into a contemporary
context.
Beginning with the Spiral group, 15 artists who
formed in the
context of the March on Washington Bridge for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, the
exhibition frames a broad selection
of artists who took different directions in relation to aesthetics, politics and art - making in a time
of extraordinary turbulence.