This show captures one of those zeitgeist shifts, when the public mood changes: we are now witnessing a new
generation of younger artists who are willing to experiment, once again, with painting.
We are now witnessing a new
generation of younger artists who are willing to experiment, once again, with painting, writes Charles Saumarez Smith.
So that means a whole
generation of these younger artists who are growing up here haven't seen my artists» works up close unless they've traveled to New York or seen their works in a museum.
An outlier among the well - known
generation of young artists who emerged in London in the 1990s, Landy shares their wry attitude towards the marketplace, although his works have never celebrated their status as commodity - objects or luxury goods.
We contacted Brazilian artists and curators whom we already knew and asked them to introduce us to the Brazilian art world, and then we met critics, independent curators, museum curators, journalists, editors of magazines, residency programme managers, academics, art lovers, gallerists and collectors, always asking the same questions on our quest to find the best of the new
generation of young artists who are emerging in the Brazilian art world.
This catalogue presents a new
generation of young artists who respond to «anonymous» materials of the 21st century, such as 3D - printed objects, body scans and stock photos.
Not exact matches
They also helped the next
generation of artists — college students
who served as instructors and mentors to
young people — develop skills in teaching and in engaging audiences.
She placed
younger artists, including Jones, Shinique Smith, and Angel Otero, in dialogue with members
of the older
generation, such as Felrath Hines, Alma Thomas, and Romare Bearden,
who were producing seminal works in the 1960s.
This will include those from older
generations of artists, including Malick Sidibé and Carrie Mae Weems, to those by more contemporary
artists, such as Deana Lawson, Zanele Muholi, and LaToya Ruby Frazier,
who are part
of Thomas's
generation or
younger, and may in turn find inspiration in Thomas's own practice.
This will include those from older
generations of artists, to those by more contemporary
artists who are part
of her
generation or
younger, and may in turn find inspiration in Thomas's own practice.
Hero to a
generation of younger artists, Joan Jonas is a pioneer
of performance and video
who has pushed the boundaries
of art for the last five
The answer is long and complex, and has much to do with the radical shifts in culture that have occurred over the past 25 years or so, both in Britain and the world: the unstoppable rise
of art as commodity and the successful
artist as a brand; the ascendancy
of a post-Thatcher
generation of Young British
Artists (YBAs)
who set out, unapologetically, to make shock - art that also made money; the attendant rise
of uber - dealers such as Jay Jopling in London and Larry Gagosian in New York; and the birth
of a new kind
of gallery culture, in which the blockbuster show rules and merchandising is a lucrative sideline.
Smith,
who is director
of the museum, has commissioned «My
Generation:
Young Chinese
Artists,» a special exhibition that would assemble a large group of emerging Chinese artists in a U.S. museum for the firs
Artists,» a special exhibition that would assemble a large group
of emerging Chinese
artists in a U.S. museum for the firs
artists in a U.S. museum for the first time.
This group show establishes a dialog between three
young São Paulo
artists represented by the gallery — Pedro Caetano (b. 1979), Rafael Carneiro (b. 1985), and Tiago Tebet (b. 1986)-- and a selection
of artists from the same
generation who are based in New York City: Gustavo Prado (b. 1981, Brazil), Nicole Wittenberg (b. 1979, USA), Guy Yanai (b. 1977, Israel), and G.T. Pellizzi (b. 1978, Mexico).
The exhibition brings together a broad spectrum
of leading
artists, prompting thematic conversations across
generations, between those
who rose to prominence during the closing decades
of the last century and
younger artists who have found their voice in today's world, a place
of incalculably more images, where distinct movements have given way to heterogeneity and the availability
of and reliance on technology is taken as given.
The exhibition considers works by famed Nouveau Réalisme
artists such as Arman and Raymond Hains alongside the likes
of American counterparts Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Artschwager, as well as a
younger generation of contemporary
artists who came
of age in the wake
of Pop Art.
This summer The Venice Biennale will showcase an emerging
generation of young British
artists who, according to the Biennale's curator, Massimiliano Gioni — noting an «exciting time for art in London over the past year» — are «dealing with media culture in an innovative and unusual way».
«I feel like a lackey
of the contemporary art establishment forced to repeatedly apologise to my board for failing to beat the Chisenhale Gallery in showcasing an entire
younger generation of post-Internet
artists who jokily yet unnervingly use a cut - and - paste, horizontally - dispersed aesthetic in a dilettante fashion.»
Their extravagantly installed exhibitions, the
artists» free - wheeling individual approaches, and their varied and compelling work have all had a wide - ranging and profound influence on several
generations of their students and on many
younger artists since then, including such well - known figures as Chris Ware (SAIC 1991 — 93), Sue Williams, Gary Panter, and Amy Sillman — as has been documented in the recent film Hairy
Who & the Chicago Imagists.
It was during this period that established post-war masters gave way to a
younger generation of contemporary
artists,
who rose to fame amid far - reaching changes in music, fashion and cinema.
In this groupshow the work
of conceptual
artists who have their roots in the 1960s and 1970s is combined with recent work
of a
younger generation.
At the same time, just as importantly, there is a new
generation of dynamic
young dealers
who are very active in post-war Italian art — doing a lot
of research and promoting
artists with catalogs, museum shows and major highly focused art - fair booths.
EW: There will always be good
artists of a
younger generation, as Vicky Usle
who was in my Anniversary Show «Silver Lining» recently, or Willa Schwabsky, the very
young daughter
of critic Barry Schwabsky and
artist Carol Szymanski, whom I showed for many years.
«What was revealing to me as a
young curator was the schism that suddenly seemed to exist between my
generation,
of which Thelma was a definite leading light, and the
generation of cosmopolitan, sophisticated, and accomplished
artists who had never been properly foregrounded within American art history.
The recent explosion
of the new Urban art movement, the fresh focus on Graffiti and Street art and graffiti has brought in a new
generation of young artists like Jean - Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring,
who unfortunately did not live long enough to see the success they became.
«One striking thing was a certain antipathy toward the exhibition, if not necessarily toward Thelma, by an older
generation of African - American
artists who believed their work had been ignored by museums in the city,» remembers Okwui Enwezor, then a
young transplant from Nigeria (and later a Venice Biennale curator).
The exhibition aims to contrast an earlier
generation of artists who use shock in their work with a
younger generation of contemporary
artists who use shock to different ends.
Kenneth Noland,
who has died
of cancer aged 85, was one
of the
young artists tasked with seizing the star - spangled standard from the preceding warrior
generation of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko and bearing it aloft into battle.
Even as recent years have seen a return to a focus on craft and the object and, sometimes, beauty, it seems that the ultimate triumph
of Conceptualism has come in the form
of younger generations who embrace the
artist's role as that
of universal creator.
«Hugh Scott - Douglas is part
of a
younger generation of artists,
who are making paintings and sculptures with unexpected combinations
of analog and digital media,» Silverman said via email.
The latest installment
of Schoeni Art Gallery's Niubi series was «
Generation Me: Lost in Transition,» an exhibition from February this year
of young Mainland Chinese
artists who are struggling to find their place in an already established and highly competitive art market.
In addition to more familiar figures such as
artists Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Yves Klein and Annette Messager, architects Le Corbusier, Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano, and designer Philippe Starck, Premises introduces a
younger generation of French
artists and architects, including Absalon, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Patrick Berger, Frederic Boerl, Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal,
who had not yet become widely known outside France at the time
of publication.
It had a profound impact on
artists around the world, from Cy Twombly and Anish Kapoor, to Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, as well as on a
younger generation of Italian
artists like Maurizio Cattelan,
who decided to make art after seeing a mirror self - portrait by the Arte Povera
artist Michelangelo Pistoletto.
The exhibition traces the impact
of the work
of 20th Century pioneers
of textiles, fashion and handcrafted practice, such as Anni Albers, Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Delaunay, Eva Hesse and Hannah Ryggen, on
younger generations of artists who incorporate similar materials and processes into their work, as well as bringing together 8 new works, created especially for the show.
This is especially so among a
generation of young artists, largely based in New York City,
who, like the original practitioners
of Arte Povera, exist in a climate
of sociopolitical turmoil rife with pressure towards polish and productivity.
The museum's permanent collection
of Damian Hirst's iconic formaldehyde - works are in this exhibition contextualised with other British
artists of the same generation, who in the 1990s were known as the YBAs: Young British A
artists of the same
generation,
who in the 1990s were known as the YBAs:
Young British
ArtistsArtists.
Meanwhile, you also have the
younger generation of African American
artists who think, «Well that's old hat.
Jonas (b. 1936, New York) is regarded as a pre-eminent figure in contemporary performance
who continues to influence a
younger generation of artists.
Known primarily for her photo - and video - based work, Shirreff is part
of a
generation of young artists whose reflections on photography have revitalized the medium, but
who eschew thinking
of themselves as photographers in the classical sense.
Barclay is a leading figure in a
generation of graduates from the Glasgow School
of Art in the 1990s: a group
of young artists studying in the city
who rose to the fore
of the contemporary art world.
The exhibition continues with the work
of a
younger generation of artists including Rachel Maclean and Bedwyr Williams
who have each established an active role within their work.
The gallery has also hosted exhibitions with
artists of older
generations such as Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gianfranco Pardi and represents the works
of British conceptual
artist Stephen Willats, American feminist
artist Mary Beth Edelson and Syrian born painter and sculptor Simone Fattal
who have been showing since the 1960's and have greatly influenced many
of the
younger generation of artists.
Moreover, Craig - Martin,
who was born in Dublin in 1941, and studied at Yale before moving to Britain in 1966, is well known as the mentor
of the
generation of YBAs (
Young British
Artists), whom he taught at Goldsmiths during the Eighties.
About the
artist Born in London in 1963, Landy attended Goldsmiths College and is part
of the
generation of artists who became known as the YBAs (Young British Ar
artists who became known as the YBAs (
Young British
ArtistsArtists).
Known primarily for her photo - and video - based work, Shirreff is part
of a
generation of young artists whose reflections on photography have revitalized the medium, but
who eschew thinking
of...
Just last year, MoMA PS1 held the first (in the US) and largest survey
of the work
of Mark Leckey, a pioneering British
artist that holds significant influence over a
younger generation of artists who have come
of age after the internet.
The
artist,
who is a member
of the «Freeze»
generation of «
Young British
Artists», along with Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, Michael Landy, Matt Collishaw, Fiona Rae, and the late Angus Fairhurst.
One
of the leading figures in the
generation of Young British
Artists who emerged in the 1990s, Lucas has collaborated with various artists such as Tracey Emin, William Corwin and Olivier
Artists who emerged in the 1990s, Lucas has collaborated with various
artists such as Tracey Emin, William Corwin and Olivier
artists such as Tracey Emin, William Corwin and Olivier Garbay.
The
artist's embrace
of fragility, transience and emotion, along with his preference for non-precious, commonly available materials and found objects, has been highly influential with a
younger generation of artists who have similarly decided to become archivists
of their own lives and personal journeys.
There will be hyperpigmented canvases by British - Nigerian Yinka Shonibare MBE,
of the
Young British
Artists generation; animal - skin sculptures
of the female form by the Swazi
artist Nandipha Mntambo; portraits by the queer South African photographer Zanele Muholi; the 2013 Venice Biennale's Angola Pavilion installation by photographer Edson Chagas (winner
of that year's Golden Lion award); an ebony bust by Soweto - born Mohau Modisakeng; a huge dragon sculpture in rubber and ribbon by the Cape Town — born Nicholas Hlobo; and sheets made
of 1,150 tiny glass beads by American
artist Liza Lou,
who has a studio in Durban, a South African city around 800 miles from Cape Town.