Sentences with phrase «employ everyday materials»

Many employ everyday materials such as pins, glass, and wood, transcending their original function to suggest new material associations.

Employing everyday materials and instigating a radical revision of the exhibition space, Kounellis's practice was fundamental to the development of the Arte Povera movement in the late 1960s.

Not exact matches

The artist employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living plants, creating encyclopedic and accumulative landscapes that penetrate walls and stretch across museums.

Using a process that recalls radical forms of art that employ detritus and everyday found materials, Jones reveals the social discrimination at play in how value is assigned to different cultures and the objects that represent them.»

Cage's own visual work often drew upon the chance processes that guided his music, as well as the unconventional, everyday materials that he employed in his performances.

Scottish artist Karla Black creates large - scale, site specific works, employing both traditional artistic media and everyday materials, including chalk, dust, and dirt.

Employing a range of typically mundane construction materials (plywood, corkboard, concrete, tiling, steel), forms to which we have become desensitised in the «real world» are appropriated to reflect a new understanding of the values of everyday existence.

Not unlike the classic foley artist, who uses humble everyday materials to mimic sounds recorded on location during film production, they employ cranks, wheels, cylinders, discs, wires, pulleys, and electrical motors.

Faught creates exuberant large - scale textile works that employ an array of techniques and everyday materials — such as sequins, posters, buttons, and Xeroxed images — that show the ability of textiles to be a source of both personal comfort and political agitation.

Farley's work employs strategies culled from the Duchamp's legacy of the ready - made, Rauchenberg's combines, and her own deep inquiry of transformation of everyday materials.

Though Sandback employed metal wire and elastic cord in his earliest works, he soon dispensed with these materials and began using acrylic yarn to create sculptures that produced perceptual illusions while addressing their physical surroundings — what the artist termed the «pedestrian space» of everyday life.

James Clarkson is presenting three installations which reinterpret everyday objects into modernist sculptures, Peter Martin projects 1980's television advertisements into the gallery, spliced with a hypnotic soundscape, and Emily Musgrave's fragile sculptures employ found objects which masquerade as other materials.

Aspen Mays employs an array of non-traditional techniques in her work as a means of exploring cosmological questions through everyday materials.

He used ordinary objects and everyday junk while also employing traditional art materials.

Some employ everyday, transitory materials — for example newspapers, food, snow, and bodily fluids.

The processes he employs are informed by a playful but considered subversion of the usage of materials and objects to produce conceptual upsets in the everyday and question familiar perceptions of our surroundings.

Employing everyday objects and domestic materials, Salcedo creates works that serve as monuments to moments of political crisis or tragedy, suffusing the quotidian objects with layered meaning.

Inspired by everyday life, Eleanor's work employs interdisciplinary strategies to create site - specific installations and events using provisional materials and improvisational methods.

Instead, Merz and his Arte Povera contemporaries — such as Alighiero e Boetti, Luciano Fabro, and Jannis Kounellis, among others — employed simple, everyday materials and perceptive references to nature in order to ground their art in a relatable existential ambiguity.