Sara VanDerBeek's photographs in her latest
exhibition Ancient Objects, Still Lives counter any notion that the still life is a staid mode of image making.
Not exact matches
In a modest sized rectangular white walled
exhibition space,
objects of daily use, artifacts
ancient and new, paintings and pots, quilts, and kimonos were arrayed on two tiers, hung from the ceiling, against works hung on wall that were subtly dematerialized by natural light coming from unseen skylights along the edges of the dropped ceiling.
How are the status and meaning of an artwork — whether an
Ancient Greek statue, a digital photograph, or a painting by an itinerant portraitist — altered through the creation of facsimiles, through
exhibition, or through the conversion of the
object into image or code?
Archaeology - themed
exhibition to complement Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China From uncovering
objects in a virtual dig to studying
ancient works of art to understand their age, function and make - up, visitors to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts» new Dig It!
The
exhibition features a selection of
ancient Egyptian and Nubian artworks in wood, stone and papyrus, and 19th - and 20th - century masks, figures and ritual
objects made by artists from regions south of the Sahara.
Where Art Meets Science:
Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu - Buddhist World, a focused exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancient o
Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu - Buddhist World, a focused
exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these
ancient o
ancient objects.
If one was to fully appreciate John Torreano's recent
exhibition «Scapes,» it helped to be familiar with the
ancient Greek myth of Orion, the hunter, who was immortalized as a constellation by Artemis (sister of Apollo and the
object of Orion's love)...
The
exhibition continues with the Bureau for the Centre of the Study for Surrealism and its Legacy, a recreation of a 1920s curator's office filled with evocative
objects, artefacts and specimens from
ancient and modern culture.
2015 CLASSICICITY:
Ancient art, contemporary
objects, Breese Little, London, England Twentieth Anniversary
Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Sean Kelly announces From Pre-History to Post-Everything, a group
exhibition that presents
ancient objects alongside contemporary paintings, providing the opportunity for a visual dialogue between the forms found in
ancient cultures and the forms being investigated by today's youngest generation of painters working with abstraction.
Label text for
objects in the
exhibition Ancient and Medieval Art from a Dallas Private Collection, July 19 — August 23, 1981 at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
The
exhibition continued in the Louvre's Department of Near Eastern Antiquities (in the rooms devoted to Syria, Jordan, and Palestine) and the medieval moat, where videos were projected directly onto the walls and
ancient objects in the museum's collection.
06.2017 Suffering ², MONA, Tasmania (solo show) 04.2017 The World Made New, PiArts London [commissioned] 03.2017 Casebooks, Ambika P3 London [commission] 10.2016 Suffering, Queenstown, Tasmania [commission] 10.2016 Nowhere Less Now ⁷ Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK [commissioned solo show] 07.2016 Leisure Land Golf, Quad, Derby, UK 06.2016 Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary UK 04.2016 Leisure Land Golf, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK 02.2016
Objects Do Things, Ujazdowsky Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland 03.2016 Stories in the Dark, The Beaney, Whitstable Biennale, UK 05.2015 Leisure Land Golf, Venice Biennale (EM15 commission) 01.2015 Reads Like a Book, Cricoteka, Kraków, Poland 09.2014 Mirrorcity, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London [new work] 10.2014 Top of the World, Sami Centre for Contemporary Art, Karasjok, Norway 01.2014 For The Record, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK 09.2013 Entangled ², (Theatre II), Matt's Gallery, London (solo show) 09.2013 Monocular ⁴, Quad, Derby [commission] 08.2013 Narrative Structures, Stryx, Birmingham, UK 06.2013 Nowhere Less Now ², (Red Queen) MONA, Tasmania, Australia [commission] 05.2013 A» Comes First, Toulouse International Art Festival, France [commission] 01.2013 The Book Lovers, EFA Project Space, New York, USA 11.2012 The Book Lovers, MHKA, Antwerp, Begium 11.2012 Reality Bites, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland 09.2012 Nowhere Less Now, Tin Tabernacle, Kilburn, London [Artangel commission solo show] 07.2012 Entangled ², Turner Contemporary, Margate [commission] 06.2012 Focal Points: Art and Photography, Manchester Art Gallery, UK 05.2012 Møte (Meeting), Galleri Festiviteten, Norway 03.2012 Ich is ein Anderer, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany 02.2012 A Trip to the Moon, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden11.2011 Monodrome, Athens Biennale, Greece 11.2011 Beyond Deception, Erik Steen Gallery, Oslo, Norway 08.2011 Something In The Way, Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway 07.2011 Outrageous Fortunes, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK 03.2011 Extramission 6, TPW Gallery, Toronto [as part of Images Festival solo show] 03.2011 Dis - covery, Salamanca Art Centre, Tasmania 03.2011 The Collection, Rugby Art Gallery, inaugural
exhibition of CAS and V&A purchase for the collection 03.2011 Just Photography,
Ancient and Modern at Martos Gallery, New York, USA 02.2011 It has to be this way ², BALTIC, Gateshead (solo show) 11.2010 Persistence of Vision, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, Denmark 10.2010 It has to be this way ², Mead Gallery, Warwick (solo show) 10.2010 It has to be this way1.5, Aspex Gallery, Porstmouth (solo show) 09.
If one was to fully appreciate John Torreano's recent
exhibition «Scapes,» it helped to be familiar with the
ancient Greek myth of Orion, the hunter, who was immortalized as a constellation by Artemis (sister of Apollo and the
object of Orion's love) after she killed him accidentally.
In his latest
exhibition What It Is, New York City - based artist and designer Doug Johnston crafts unusual, sculptural
objects made entirely from coiled and stitched rope — an
ancient technique that he loves to celebrate in a more contemporary way.
A major international
exhibition,
Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom, includes 230
objects from the Met's collection and from 37 lenders across the U.S. and Europe.
Underlining and highlighting the transition from the past to the present, the complex identity of which it is important to conserve, it has been decided to graft the
exhibition in its totality — walls, floors, installations and art
objects, including their relative positions — onto the historical architectural and environmental structure of Ca» Corner della Regina, thereby inserting — on a full - size scale — the modern rooms of the Kunsthalle, delimited by white wall surfaces, into the
ancient frescoed and decorated halls of the Venetian palazzo.
«The
objects assembled in this
exhibition challenge the way African - Americans have historically been seen, creating alternate narratives to the traditional Western art accounts from
ancient Egypt and classical Greece, to the birth of modern painting, to postwar abstraction and conceptual practice,» according to a news release.
exhibition will find a rich environment where intergenerational learners can explore how archaeology contributes to identifying and interpreting
objects from
ancient China.
This small
exhibition will explain Zoroastrianism, an
ancient but living religion named after the Prophet Zarathustra, through
objects and coins from Persia (Iran) and beyond.
Throughout the
exhibition, Ai has placed everyday
objects that recreate the feeling of the
ancient space, such as a painted ladder, traditional dragon lanterns, a crystal chandelier inspired by the Han dynasty and a floor installation of antique teapot spouts from the Song to Qing dynasties.
25 July - 20 October 2013 Galleries 1, 2 and 3 By pairing twentieth - century sculpture with
ancient objects, this
exhibition explores how
objects resist the origins, names and histories humans accord to them.
The
exhibition features more than eighty
objects from the Brooklyn Museum and the DMA's permanent collection and explores themes of mythology, kingship, and everyday life in
ancient Egypt through representations of felines.
The inaugural 15 «
exhibitions» range from murals to a vast array of musical instruments made from everyday
objects recalibrated as sculpture to a virtual reality kiosk with an airplane «dissolving» around you to enlarged documents of redacted information from Guantanamo Bay prisoners» files reconstituted into something akin to
ancient tablets lining wall after wall.
Thursday, June 5, Altman Siegel Gallery hosts a public reception for their new
exhibition of work by Sara VanDerBeek, «
Ancient Objects, Still Lives.»
Other
objects in the
exhibition demonstrate the wide range of materials the
ancient Egyptians used in their craft and artistic production, and the sophisticated techniques they perfected.