Sentences with phrase «for contemporary consumer culture»

The Sims can be thought of as a virtual training ground for contemporary consumer culture, making explicit capitalist conceptions of happiness.

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The show says much about his taste as a consumer of contemporary culture and his vision for spotting a gallery.

While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.

A monument for the 21st century, Electric Fountain is a celebration of the spectacle, excess, beauty, and desire of contemporary culture and a provocative comment on the nature of consumer society, a theme often present in Noble & Webster's work.

In her collages and sculptures, Nicole Wermer's (born in 1971) abstracts the attractions and surfaces of a contemporary consumer culture to architectural structures that allow for echoes of seduction and control.

Andreas Gursky, German photographer known for his monumental digitally manipulated photographs that examine consumer culture and the busyness of contemporary life.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2009 - 10 Joyous Machines: Jean Tinguely and Michael Landy, Tate Liverpool Projections, Carré d'Art — Nîmes Museum of Contemporary Art 2004 Bad Behavior, an Arts Council Collection exhibition; Hayward Gallery, London; Longside Gallery - Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Swansea - Glynn Vivian Art Gallery; The Hatton Gallery - Univeristy of Newcastle; Carlisle - Tullie House 2003 L'Air du Temps, Bloomberg Space, London Shopping: Art and Consumer Culture, Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Tate Liverpool Micro / Macro: British Art 1996 - 2002, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC

For The Walthamstow Tapestry (2009), a textile work that scrolled 49 feet (15 metres) across a gallery wall, Perry arranged a series of detailed images — decoratively inspired by traditional Sumatran batiks but replete with references to contemporary consumer culture — into a sweeping narrative of a human life.

These two propositions are inextricably entangled in a contemporary consumer culture looking for «more - for-less» (Richard Susskind).