The title of the exhibition fits well: from
his earliest object on display, Hunting Dogs Project (1961), a model for a public garden in the form of a maze, to PN27 Penetrable, made in 1979, a year before his death, there is a definite drive in the artist's work to contain a boundless and unpredictable human body, including the collective body — with all its joyful and painful emotions — within a certain aesthetic frame.
Not exact matches
«
Early on, museums were specifically interested in
displaying luxurious
objects,» says associate curator Yekaterina Barbash.
While Alexander's
earliest objects were
displayed on pedestals as sculptures, his newest work is wall mounted.
It's also where she collects her antique and found
objects — a wide selection of which were
displayed at Gavin Brown's enterprise last year — and her work draws frequently
on Cape Breton's mythology, part of her wider interest in Celtic folklore (Joyce was a very
early point of reference).
«
Early Netherlandish altarpiece paintings were a devotional
object, kept closed and opened for
display on sacred days.
Early examples of the revolutionary assemblages of found
objects by Tony Cragg will be
on display, as well as a painted steel work by Julian Opie titled Abstract Compositions with Pilchards (1984), both of which look ahead to the equally systemic and primary - coloured construction of stacked IKEA tables by Ryan Gander, Samson's Push, or Compositie (2010).
LH: In the
early years, I was doing cut - out figures of African slaves working in European courts (now
on display in Bristol) and working with found
objects.
In
earlier work, Fishman made large - scale pills and tablets as art
objects, highly fabricated using glass and
displayed in groups
on the floor.
Especially interesting is Wendy and Emory Reves» collection of over 1,400
objects (jewelry, furniture and paintings by impressionist, post-impressionist, and
early modernist masters),
on display in a 15,000 - square - foot replica of their villa
on the French Riviera.
Now as a follow - up, McGinness and the museum will open «Studio Visit»
on January 25, 2014, a three - part exhibition, the first gallery will provide a glimpse of McGinness's studio practice, the second will
display a selection of the
objects McGinness chose from the museum collection alongside his sketches and final image, and the last portion will show
early works the artist made while growing up in Virginia Beach.
An
early proponent of process art, Le Va is credited for reconceiving sculpture away from the idea of a finished
object displayed on a base, instead undertaking a series of «activities» that call the viewer to mentally recreate his process, emphasizing the way in which the sculpture was made.
On display is one of West's Accomodes, which resembles the artist's earlier works of pure white paint on plaster forms attached to wires and found object
On display is one of West's Accomodes, which resembles the artist's
earlier works of pure white paint
on plaster forms attached to wires and found object
on plaster forms attached to wires and found
objects.