Not exact matches
James» images in black and white
declare their subjects
as works of art that have become integrated into the surrounding landscape.
Previously, Spence has organized bodies
of work around themes straightforwardly
declared in his exhibition titles — «The Afterlife,» «
Art Therapy,» «
As I Was Conceived» — so that even if individual pieces occasionally strayed into ambiguous
While she never explicitly
declared herself a feminist artist (she has described her
work as being «pre-gender»), her explorations
of unconscious sexual desires
as a woman were pioneering and authoritative and in 1982, she became the first woman to receive a solo retrospective at the Museum
of Modern
Art.
One would probably catch on to the hoax anyway, just from the
works on display — Oscar Mayer franks that Cattelan
declared art, the bicycle and rope
of bedsheets that he meant
as an escape route, a bloody pen with which he stabbed a fellow student
as if to crucify him, a poster from the Wrong Gallery downloaded from the Web.
As an awards exhibition, We Hereby
Declare celebrates the achievements
of contemporary artists
working in Israel and whose artistic practices have been awarded prizes by the Ministry
of Culture and Sport: Creative Encouragement Award, Young Artist Award, Design Award, Video
Art Award, and Lifetime Achievement Award.
Calling Wallinger's
work «
as accessible and funny
as it is deadly serious,» the Guardian's
art critic Adrian Searle
declared: «I can't think
of a better winner, nor
of works more deserving
of a wide audience.»
«I'd like to get away from the notion
of a
work of art as something outside
of experience, something that is located in museums, something that is terribly precious,» Oldenburg
declared.