Sentences with phrase «functioned as an artwork»

Our intention was to create a hotel that functioned as an artwork in itself.

In lieu of a static exhibition, Sinders will be filling the space with activity, conversation, and research, asking: can data collection itself function as an artwork?

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While the Firefly function is one more likely to alarm bricks and mortar booksellers because it allows users to scan the bar codes or QR codes of items such as books, films, songs and artwork and then find them on the Amazon online shop.

Casa Rosal also functions as a museum, and is home to a permanent collection of pre-Columbian pieces, including antique furniture and colonial artwork.

In contrast, in their role as holders of the cloth sacks, the hooks are given a function that undermines their autonomy as self - sufficient objects, with the result that they oscillate between display modules and genuine artworks, whereas the Silos — in spite of their formal proximity to those seat - like objects seen in quasi-participational art projects (like those of Franz West)-- utterly lack the quality of sturdy usefulness and seemingly even have to be held in place by the rods of the «Gurneys».

Before the museum had purchased any work, even before the building was finished, Hendrik Driessen borrowed a number of artworks in order to have an idea as to how the building would function.

Höller, an experimental Belgian artist who originally worked as a scientist, has built his international reputation on artworks that range from a museum filled with reindeer fed on hallucinogenic mushrooms to a fully functioning guerilla nightclub in north London.

Each artwork is a representation of how memory and nostalgia function as social and psychological components in an individual's process of collecting.

The artwork references the space's former function as a theater as well as the history of filmmaking in the city by turning the entire space into an abstract, three - dimensional film.

Turning the hypothetical notion of a hive mind into a functioning organism, The Hive Mind is a performative installation exhibit in which artworks are curated as points in a nonlinear narrative scene

I think artworks can function in that way too — as a portal between worlds, between minds, between times.

Since Homer, poets have turned towards ekphrasis to approach works of art — the artwork functioning as a muse, or as a means by which the poet can critically examine something outside of the artwork, using it as an entry point.

jessi reaves, a graduate of the rhode island school of design whose work was shown at the whitney biennial last year, is best known for her raw, deconstructed artworks, reinventing salvaged objects that also function as furniture.

Asli + Cavusoglu's Murder in Three Acts was inspired by the representation of art in popular media, especially in tv crime series in which the artworks don't solely exist in the background of the show, but become a essential part of the script: exhibitions function as crime scenes and art works act as murder weapons.

Artist's Writing as Site of the Artwork October 24, 2014 10:30 am - 1:30 pm The talk addresses the function of writing by artists such as Donald Judd and his contemporaries: from Duchamp to Brian O'Doherty to Carl Andre, Hélio Oticicia, Robert Smithson, Eva Hesse, Robert Barry, Lucy Lippard, Mel Bochner and others.

Just as the opening sentence of a book functions as an invitation to the reader, the exhibition proposes openings for the viewer to navigate and engage with the collection via the selected artworks within each space.

His artwork often incorporates the diamond shape as a visual motif that functioned «as a stabilizing force, a form that interacts compositionally with what's around it.

Clark's sculptures, influenced by aspects of Kabuki theatre and surrealist aesthetics, functioned as furniture and, along with a selection of more than 60 artworks from DRAF's own collection, set up the mise en scène for cabaret evenings, which took place over the course of exhibition.

In these images, rather than acting as a backdrop to the human activity, the artworks function as characters in the scene, silent witnesses to the drama unfolding around them.

This functions as a token which can be traded on the Ethereum blockchain and changes the status of the artwork to a form of currency — or a representation of itself — which circles back to the initial question of embodiment: are the works in fact the works?

Potential exchange items may include: clothes, curtains, blankets, artworks, photographs, paintings, frames, nondescript items of undetermined function, objects that resemble parts of the human body such as wigs or mannequins, costume jewelry and accessories, mirrors and reflective items, potted plants, colorful items and / or those with interesting shapes and forms, transparent materials such as shower curtains, lingerie, or X-rays, books, and trinkets.

Jillian Mayer: Slumpies a body of sculptures that function as utilitarian objects, presented on PAMM's outdoor terrace as well as in the Vattikuti Learning Theater on the museum's first floor Routes of Influence juxtaposes artworks in a manner that maps how aesthetic concepts move fluidly across traditional, national or cultural lines, how «influence» in art is understood today as multi-directional, rather than linear in character.

Drawing on the language of pop art and surrealism, Belanger's sculptures turn everyday objects such as lamps, cigarettes, and watches into uncanny anthropomorphic artworks that blur the boundaries between function and artifice.

Originally trained as an architect, Dávila uses his expertise to explore material function, equilibrium, context and form throughout his artwork.

In addition to artworks which literally claim the entire space of the room, the exhibition features a number of pieces that function as prisms or mirrors to activate their surrounding space.

Located in the vast space that originally functioned as a freight - loading platform, the museum gallery will house four large - scale artworks by the artist.

Madison has a continued interest in artwork's self - sufficiency: rather than functioning as an inert image the work becomes an event that is impossible without the viewers» collaboration.

The new building being almost twice the size will allow the Whitney to return in a way to how it initially functioned when established by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in a townhouse in 1914 as a space for artists to simultaneously create and exhibit artwork.

To repurpose or recycle an existing artwork (object, concept, ornament, decoration) as a unique consumer product - one that performs a particular operative function or purpose, void of any symbolism, resisting interpretation, and abandoning any former inherent significance or greater meaning.

«We function as an incubator for new ideas and risk - taking artwork,» explains Garcia.

Here, the paintings and sculptural furniture, displayed in the form of abstracted period rooms, function as material with which to examine how elements of décor are used to contextualise particular artworks, and conversely, how fine art adds value to design.

The artwork itself functions as a clock: its presentation is synchronized with the real time, resulting in the time shown in a scene being the actual time.

Since its inception in 1989, the Open has functioned as a call - out to artists of any age and residing place to enter, with an exhibition of the selected artworks taking place at MOSTYN, Wales.

Underlying this investigation is the suggestion that these two arenas are distinguished by their use - value: design is explicitly utilitarian in its reinventions of items such as silverware, furniture, lighting, etc, while artworks are made without any practical function in mind, their central utility being conceptual.

In many artworks the text functions as kind of shadow appendage, but my works often speak for themselves.

Kjartansson's piece falls within the latter category, in response to Ono's request for artworks that functioned as a vessel.

She's an artist who pushes the medium of painting in a variety of directions — taking on methods of storytelling that are perhaps more closely linked to the function of historical or even religious artworks, as well as print media, as orators.

It is an energy conductor and symbolizes the very function of her artwork, created as an object of exchange between man and society.

Today, data is commonly used as raw material for artists, and the artists in this exhibition do more than merely turn data into visual work — they reshape it, both in form and function — to create compelling conceptual artworks that materialize the Internet.

Debra Barrera's elegant assemblage pieces work cohesively as an installation but also function as separate artworks that coincide with original poetry and text.

The mural functioned not just as another artwork or as a ground; it suggested an interior cavity on the one hand, and on the other created self - awareness of the body through the experience of all - enveloping color.

The holes in these otherwise seamless objects function as measures of space, reinforcing a sense of objectness by punctuating and piercing the artworks» surfaces.

Mirza's works are simultaneously sculptural installations and audio compositions that alter the intended function of materials such as used furniture, household electronics, found or constructed video footage and sometimes artworks by other artists.

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The newly commissioned artwork is intended to enhance the viewer's experience of the natural setting and function as a focal point for the built landscape.

Can a display, function as a frame for a picture and become part of an artwork or is it an independent work that should be removed from the artwork itself?

Spanned between the floor and ceiling, the supporting elements produce the artwork establishing their own position in space, and functioning as space - structuring components.

In 1995, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski curated an exhibition Take Me (I'm Yours) that had brought together thirteen international artists with an extraordinary selection of works functioning on two levels — as utilitarian objects and as artworks.

The members of the foundation held that certain artworks should permanently reside in one location, their context and placement functioning as inseparable elements of the pieces.

Hayes has collaborated with artist Andrea Geyer to create a large site - specific structure that contains all the works in the show, and also functions as an independent artwork.