Despite his apparent taste
for urban detritus, the lyrical aesthetic here is indicated by works» titles such as Luna, Luna, Luna and Gondola Walt Whitman.
Not exact matches
Dubuffet believed children, the uneducated and the naive are able to immediately «hit the bull's - eye» and arrive at something visionary in their art making.The
detritus and random objects of
urban streets represented a diminishing horizon,
for him, between high and low art.
For those growing fatigued by contemporary art's ongoing invocations of the Anthropocene and its attendant aesthetics of
detritus and scorched - earth
urban sprawl, Thiago Rocha Pitta's show «The First Green» offered something of a reprieve.
In 2013, Chagas won
for his country the Golden Lion
for best national pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale with his exhibition, Luanda, Encyclopedic City, comprised of twenty - three stacks of mass - produced photographs of
urban detritus drawn from the artist's series Found Not Taken (2009 — 13).
There amongst the discarded
detritus of modern
urban decay he was to find the source material and inspiration
for his monumental and emotionally charged work.
Our narrator takes us on a tour of the post-industrial canal via canoe, showcasing the accretions of cultural
detritus, a motley crew of
urban wildlife, both human and non-human, and improbable plans
for redevelopment which have transformed this forgotten space into a material unconscious of the city.