Not exact matches
Permeated through the aesthetics as well as characteristics of Pop
Art, especially encompassing
ideas of mass production, mass culture as well as advertising, XUZHEN Supermarket embraces a commentary on the
ephemeral values and the frailty of society.
In Conceptual or «ultra-conceptual»
art, the
idea is paramount and the material form is secondary,
ephemeral, or «dematerialized.»
The
idea was to explore «the
ephemeral nature of
art through live
art pieces» *
This simple act of return undermines the
idea that
art should exist in perpetuity and embraces the
ephemeral.
In Conceptual or ultra-conceptual
art, the
idea is paramount and the material form is secondary,
ephemeral, and / or «dematerialized».
Not only were their costumes «body sculptures», but their live
art drew upon the interplay between
ideas of permanence and the
ephemeral, between the body alive and in motion, frozen and stylized.
takes its title and investigation from a recent essay by Brian Kuan Wood who notes that «we might say that we now function so purely in the realm of the
idea that any substance becomes
ephemeral regardless of whether it is
art or not.»
The research into the notion of the
ephemeral and into the
ideas of the fusion of various
art disciplines, along with the research into a new understanding of the surrounding stand at the core of sculptural production today.