Sentences with phrase «frequently ephemeral works»

The results were frequently ephemeral works that utilized the human body and impermanent materials as primary mediums, thus disappearing following initial presentations and interventions.

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Frequently these artists work from photographs, but just as often, their inspiration is the observed world, and the notion that a tangible, perhaps ephemeral object or moment can somehow be brought back to life - reinterpreted through the artist's hand as re-made readymades.

Taking as their subject matter commonplace objects such as paper bags, erasers, apple cores, and waiting rooms as well as ephemeral moments, such as afternoon naps, the featured artists create works that are startlingly realistic and frequently playful and surreal.

Taking vast, remote landscapes and the ephemeral conditions of nature as their sculptural canvas, these and other artists staged their own protest by rejecting traditional sculptural forms and practices, rigid modernist theory and the commercial confines of the museum - and - gallery system to create frequently massive land art works that heightened awareness of our relationship with the earth and challenged accepted definitions of art.

Bringing ephemeral works into a historical framework, the show will feature various forms of documentation — sound recordings, photographs, videos and texts — that honor a bold, frequently political artistic intention.

Intimate collections and ephemeral communities are frequently generated through his works; assemblies of owners of a particular jacket and a reunion of the children «murdered» in a Pasolini film; a god look - alike contest; lighting technicians asked to advise on the light in heaven; and a London gallery's archive given to a group of Kurdish asylum seekers to edit and hide outside the capital, to list a few.