Sentences with phrase «form of modernist architecture»
Instead, it's an elaborate puzzle or optimistic historical and ideological Russian doll that situates one form of Modernist architecture within another via a contemporary performative twist.
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Where church architecture is concerned, the modernists» repudiation of traditional forms is invalid on its own terms.
The artists in the exhibition inflect Modernist forms with contemporary perspectives on intimate subjects including: the poetics of domestic architecture, the pertinence of ancient myth, and the solipsism of art history.
The modernist architecture of Mies Van Der Rohe and Zaha Hadid — and their open - ended, problem - solving approach to refined «architectonic form» — provided a framework that resonated with Ball's artistic practice.
Enhanced by elements of surrealism and abstraction, her oeuvre responds to past forms of conceptualism, current art trends, interior design, and modernist architecture.
Many of the forms and compositions recall mid-century Minimalism, Hard - edge painting, and modernist architecture with its utopian ideals of living.
Other recent projects by Zimmerman include Observatory / Projector (Metropolis), a mashup model of modernist architecture which projects a constellation of glowing abstract form on the ceiling and walls around it.
His work deploys multiple forms to expose the new ideological control systems that emerged at the beginning of the 1990s, exposing the dysfunctional aspects of a modernist legacy in terms of abstraction and architecture when framed within a globalized, neo-liberal consensus.
The Fifth Wall is inspired by multiple sources: the unique architecture of the Armory's Raymond Avenue building; German modernist theater practitioner Bertolt Brecht's notion of dialectical theater; and artwork that challenges the authority of a fixed point of view and suggests a deeper form of reciprocal engagement.
His drawings and sculptures cohere to form a visual response to the environment created by modernist architecture, its subsequent failures and the aesthetics of regularity and repetition.
His take on the tension between corporate architecture and collectivity encapsulates the relationship between form and the political drive of the modernist enterprise that underlies this exhibition's thesis.
Nigoghossian's own work, likewise, stems in part from a desire to create foreign objects from a familiar lexicon, to fabricate idiosyncratic, alien forms while referencing and employing established Art Historical modes of expression — which vary from Brutalist and Deconstructivist architecture, to Baroque painting, to Modernist European drawing, to the Abstract Expressionist sculpture of John Chamberlain.