Not exact matches
Further Information The complex
issues surrounding childhood obesity will be
explored further online - including this discussion
of the
scale of the public health threat.
While this demonstrates a commitment to
exploring the
issue of insecurity, this move does not address the
scale of the problem.
Some
of the participating artists include: Abbas Akhavan who will exhibit a water fountain created using stacks
of dishes pots and cooking pans that
explores the politics
of hospitality; Zineb Sedira whose large -
scale photographs and sugar sculpture references the history
of sugar, race, migration and globalization; Tadasu Takamine reflects on the consequences
of the catastrophic nuclear meltdown at Fukushima in a series
of performative videos; Asunción Molinos whose work in the show originates for a «pop - up» restaurant she ran in Cairo which dealt with
issues related to Egypt's export / import policies and Senam Okudzeto whose work Portes - Oranges features metal sculptures used by Ghanaian fruit sellers to display oranges.
Utilizing this suspension
of natural law, that the cartoon medium allows, as well as comic tropes
of parody, juxtaposition, enlargement
of scale, inversion
of physical properties and / or the appropriation
of cartoon aesthetics / symbolism, these artists operate under the veneer
of popular culture to
explore private meanings, the unconscious and darker social
issues - as well as reflecting, with wit, on the nature
of their chosen medium.
In addition to an interest in
exploring binary positions, Alexander Kroll's work deals with
scale, painting history, intuition, systems, emotions, and painting as a conversational nexus and means
of producing an object that can embody and contradict these
issues.
At Klaus Von Nichtssagend, Sara Greenberger Rafferty has organzed «Work,» an amusing exhibition
of 50 small -
scale paintings made by 16 artists
exploring issues about labor, value and authorship.
Ceramics Finds Its Place in the Art - World Mainstream Lilly Wei writes... From the first generation
of modernists who worked in clay to contemporary practitioners, all have made breakthroughs: in
scale, in single objects as well as expansive installations; in technical experimentation; in increasingly original formal resolutions from the abstract to the realistic; and in content,
exploring issues about the body, identity, politics, history, feminism, domesticity, means
of production, and beauty... more
Tennant's small -
scale bronze works appeared in a series
of influential group exhibitions entitled Sculpture in the Home that were staged by the Arts Council in the 1950s and 60s, which we
explored in an exhibition and
issue 60
of our Essays on Sculpture series in 2008.
Wodiczko, Krzysztof (b. 1943) Polish artist who specializes in large -
scale outdoor slide projections on buildings and monuments to
explore issues of democracy and human rights.
Utilizing this suspension
of natural law, that the cartoon medium allows, as well as comic tropes
of parody, juxtaposition, enlargement
of scale, inversion
of physical properties and / or the appropriation
of cartoon aesthetics / symbolism, these artists operate under the veneer
of popular culture to
explore private meanings, the unconscious and darker social
issues — as well as reflecting, with wit, on the nature
of their chosen medium.
On Friday 18 June IMMA is hosting a seminar to reflect on the experience
of the partnering institutions and to
explore the challenges, practical
issues and resources involved in delivering an exhibition
of this
scale.
In it, the taskforce
explored relevant
issues including the
scale and impact, regulators and legal frameworks and what has already been done to tackle fraud, before making a range
of targeted recommendations.