Sentences with phrase «elaborate installations»

But as the label explains, Dion is a real artist, who plays roles of scientist, curator, archeologist, and scholar to create elaborate installations in the territory where Night at the Museum meets Borges.
Often creating elaborate installations restaging icons of modern design and engineering using incongruous materials, from a model Le Corbusier's infamous 1952 Unite d'Habitation made from foamcore to a plywood McDonald's, he creates unexpected juxtapositions that are both humorous and politically - minded.
Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art with Minneapolis's Walker Art Center, the American artist's first comprehensive U.S. survey tracks his development through early installations made of hundreds of drawings on paper napkins and disassembled silk flowers pinned to the wall through the more elaborate installations large mirror mosaics of recent years.
Though the Guggenheim Museum in New York was the site of Turrell's most elaborate installation in 2014, it is the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern that has been the real engine through which the art of spectacle has motored through the public consciousness and into their hearts.
Back in 2000 Friedman had just returned from Burning Man, the weeklong festival of radical free expression, where tech geeks build elaborate installations and free spirits dance naked in the sun.
His research and collections come together as elaborate installations, which combine artefacts, material culture, photographs and documents.
Often incorporating elements from domestic interiors, elaborate installations by Maria Bríto have been compared to those by Joseph Beuys and Doris Salcedo.
May Marston, who currently lives between London and Suffolk with her artist husband Ryan Gander and their young family, has built up a standout roster of artists; one of them is the highly conceptual ceramicist Jesse Wine, whose sprawling and elaborate installations incite much art world excitement.
This is a group that has been invited to show at the 2010 Whitney Biennial, do an installation and teach classes at the Russian oligarch - funded New Holland island in St. Petersburg, Russia, and create elaborate installations at the W Hotel in South Beach during art fair week (their opening was attended by billionaire collectors).
Working in a range of mediums — painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, and performance, all of which may be incorporated into elaborate installations — Acosta's work is characterized by what he has described as «aesthetics of resourcefulness.»
By focusing on the PeaRoeFoam project, not included in Four Roads, the exhibition at David Zwirner complements this careful investigation of some of Rhoades's most elaborate installations, which have rarely been seen by the public.
Working with the flimsiest of materials she creates elaborate installations, which recall the rigorous regularity of Minimalism.
First of all, just to clarify: F I F T Y (yes, it's spelled like that, with the spaces and everything) is a «museum» in the Museum Of Ice Cream sense, in that it's an elaborate installation piece designed specifically to serve as Instagram - bait.
The German artist Anne Imhof created the most - talked - about artwork of this year's Venice Biennale: «Faust,» an elaborate installation - performance piece that kitted out the German Pavilion with caged Doberman pinschers, a troupe of youthful, runway - ready performers and a raised glass - and - steel floor that placed viewers above the action.
With SOMA, Carsten Höller (born 1961 in Brussels), has created his most complex and elaborate installation to date.
The artist Alex Da Corte's elaborate installations are often carnivalesque, filled with strange sculptural objects (motorized plastic swans, an enormous box of Kleenex, a cat - shaped neon sign) and otherworldly environments.
The Polish artist Robert Kusmirowski is known for his elaborate installations and performances.
Jane Irish (b. 1955) works at the intersection between the decorative and the political, deploying both art and craft with equal engagement (and abandon) to create paintings, sculptures, and objects that stand alone, or are part of elaborate installations.
We managed to complete the elaborate installation of Spaced Out: Migration to the Interior just a few minutes before the opening reception on Thursday, October 9.
The elaborate installation, his fifth appearance at Unlimited, depicts an art collector's petrified library and music room.
Made into a more elaborate installation — the exhibition includes photography, large - and small - scale sculpture, and a pair of single - channel videos — than the artist has previously attempted, the project was trademark Nakadate in conception: smart, shrewd, and more than a little ruthless, an unapologetically manipulative scheme that implicates not just the pitiable men the artist lures into her queasily
Taking as its focus the historic Parisian alley once home to the studios of Constantin Brancusi, William N. Copley, Max Ernst, Yves Klein, Les Lalanne, Larry Rivers, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely and numerous other seminal 20th century artists, the exhibition will include work by these artists in an elaborate installation designed to embody the collaborative atmosphere of the Impasse Ronsin.
Significant chunks of the gallery's walls have been gouged out by Swiss - born Urs Fischer, leaving jagged edges of plaster and metal that frame his elaborate installation, «Untitled» like mechanical teeth.
YINKA SHONIBARE, MBE, «Pièces de résistance» @ DCH / ART Foundation for Contemporary Art Montreal, Canada For Yinka Shonibare, MBE, the complicated origins of Dutch wax fabric provide a conceptual framework for his elaborate installations and ironic sculptures that probe «identity, authenticity, ethnicity, representation, hybridity, race, class, migration, globalization, and power.»
The elaborate installation «Pascal's Fall» (2011) cascades down a high wall.
Amid all the beautiful objects, a few booths are given over to more elaborate installations or altruistic causes.
Another artist, Tomoko Takahashi, works through the night to create her elaborate installations.
On view through Sept. 8, Vogt's work examines the relationship of people to objects by incorporating elements of sculpture, drawing, video and photography in an elaborate installation in the museum's Lobby Gallery.
Companies are creating elaborate installations, such as the basketball court where customers can try out their sneakers in Nike Inc.'s 55,000 - square - foot (5,100 - square - meter) Soho store, in an effort to create an experience that shoppers can't get online.
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