Perhaps because so many shortlisted artists are involved in unconventional or avant -
garde forms of installation art, contemporary sculpture, video art or other types of conceptual art, they tend to attract considerable criticism (even ridicule) from some art critics and members of the public.
Not exact matches
Jacobs joins fellow avant -
garde veteran Michael Snow (Wavelength) in Forum Expanded, whose
installation piece Taut
forms part
of a group show, «To the Sound
of the Closing Door», at the Akademie der Künste.
Thinking
of painting as a
form of technology is a very interesting vantage point, because if you consider the whole sweep
of different mediums that artists are employing today — from video and virtual reality to immersive
installation and performance — then painting becomes the least optimized medium for avant -
garde curators to engage the kinds
of crowds that come to biennials and exhibitions.
The Palace
of Tokyo organizes a wide variety
of avant -
garde art, embracing contemporary
forms including photography,
installation, video, electronic, performance and conceptual art.
During the course
of 1999, 2000 and 2001, the Bohen Foundation, a private charity with an established reputation for its patronage
of the contemporary arts, in the
form of commissions for video, film,
installation and other avant -
garde media, gifted its entire holding
of approximately 275 works by 45 artists to the Guggenheim.
In fact, within the world
of visual art, the term art festival typically embraces the widest possible spectrum
of creative events, involving contemporary art: from traditional media, such as painting and sculpture, to more modern
forms like
installation and video art, film - making, animation and photography, as well as avant -
garde art
forms such as performance art.