Sentences with phrase «curator of the exhibition desire»

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«What's fascinating about Rafman's work is the way he uses the very familiar visual language of the internet, social media, and computer games to create immersive narratives that reveal the anxieties and desires of contemporary life,» says Maitreyi Maheshwari, program director at Zabludowicz Collection and curator of the exhibition, which also offered up a waterbed, ball pit, massage chair, and filing cabinets streaming video games in first - person shooter.

Engagement with these desires and their side effects is a shared characteristic of the works presented in the framework of Made in Commons,» said KUNCI's director Ferdiansyah Thajib and project curator Kerstin Winking in a joint statement about the exhibition.

Franklin Street Works will be working with five New York City - based guest curators in 2017 and 2018, originating six new group exhibitions around themes such as: shared strategies of the labor and LGBTQ movements; economic and political refugees; ways artists animate desire in abstract painting; art that explores political and personal paranoia; and more.

Andrea Karnes, curator of FRAMING DESIRE, comments, «This exhibition highlights several of the most important contemporary artists of the last four decades, with a number of new acquisitions that meaningfully add context to the Modern's growing collection in the areas of photography and video.»

«There is a deep connection between mathematics and photography that originated in the invention of photography itself, a tradition that has carried into the 21st century,» says exhibition curator Klaus Ottmann, «Hiroshi Sugimoto's work exemplifies this tradition, and this exhibition reflects the artist's desire to combine a «very craft - oriented» practice with making «something artistic and conceptual».

According to Eric Doeringer, the artist - curator of I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, the exhibition's title — a nod to Joseph Beuys's 1974 performance «I Like America and America Likes Me» — is meant to convey the «fraught relationship between emerging artists and the art - world establishment,» one marked by a simultaneous desire to criticize the art world's excesses and to be recognized by it.

Supported by a catalogue essay in which the curator Catherine Lampert discusses their habits and methods and introduces previously unseen writing by the artists, the exhibition will look at the way their conversations impacted on the development of their work, demonstrating that despite their wide - ranging styles they are each linked by a desire to catch what Bacon describes as «the mystery of appearance within the mystery of making», and in doing so broke new ground in contemporary painting The exhibition includes major works by each artist, several borrowed from public collections, among them Francis Bacon's Pope I 1951 from Aberdeen Art Gallery, David Hockney's Man in a Museum 1962 from the British Council and others like Frank Auerbach's Primrose Hill, Winter Sunshine 1962 - 64 and Euan Uglow's Nude, Lady C 1959 - 60 which have not been seen in public for many years.