Sentences with phrase «garde cellist»
A generous hint of his direction could be seen in the 2012 Biennial (then hailed by New York Times critic Roberta Smith as «one of the best Whitney Biennials in recent memory»), which included such unforgettable moments as Werner Herzog's presentation of drawings by Hercules Segers intermixed with filmed performances by the Dutch avant - garde cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger; Dawn Kasper's performative residency in a ramshackle studio of her own creation on the museum's third floor; and the transformation of the entire fourth floor into a long stage for dance, most memorably Michelson's highly concentrated, multipart «Devotion Study # 1 — The American Dancer.»
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Wild Combination pays homage to the inimitable Arthur Russell: avant - garde cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist.
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Moorman was tagged as the «topless cellist» but far beyond being a novelty act, she was an artist of wit and anarchic invention, and the inventor of the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York, an anti-Art Basel if ever there was one.
On view at New York University's Grey Art Gallery from September 8 to December 10, 2016, the show illuminates how Charlotte Moorman (1933 — 1991) metamorphosed from a classically trained cellist into a barrier - breaking figure in performance art and an impresario of the postwar avant - garde.
The bonanza has already begun with «A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, 1960s - 1980s» at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, a traveling retrospective look at the famed «topless cellist» who was, right up to her death in 1991, a daring artist and a visionary organizer of a passionately successful campaign for electronically - based multimedia art, which she helped to invent.
Paik's TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969), in which the performance artist and cellist Charlotte Moorman played the cello topless with two small video - playing TV monitors attached to her chest, illustrates video art's long - standing ties to performance (see also performance art), as well as its often avant - garde nature.