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I'm really interested in hybridity from a cultural perspective, but I chose to focus on inter-species hybridization because I didn't want it to be merely about the fusion and mixture of culture, but also about the transparency of boundaries between things we identify as whole in and of themselves.

Not exact matches

From the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descFrom the influences of African art on the Modernist forms of artists like Picasso, to the work of contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ellen Gallagher and Chris Ofili, the exhibition will map out visual and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the journeys made by people of Black African descfrom the journeys made by people of Black African descent.

However, by bringing in the work of artists from across the world, with a particular emphasis on the Global South, Prospect 4 reproduces the conditions which made New Orleans such fertile ground for creativity in the first place; a port city where paths converge, creating a hub of indissoluble hybridity.

The beauty that can emerge from cultural transfer and hybridity surely will be the overarching effect of these exhibitions, along with the particular political power of each artist's work.

«Creating art that is honed from a conceptualism that pays homage to minimalist practices of the 1970s and reinvents identity - based explorations of the 1980s, Simmons came of age aesthetically in the 1990s and his work represents the fluid hybridity of that time,» wrote Thelma Golden in the exhibition catalogue Gary Simmons (2002).

But the project also emerges from my broader interest in exploring how hybridities (of cultures, races, and ethnicities; humans and machines; etc.) are becoming more apparent, but also more fraught and confounding in American society.

Led by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Prospect.4 brings together 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's Tricentennial.

But in today's economy, the gallerist as cultural entrepreneur and arbiter exercises a professional hybridity far removed from Kahnweiler's day.

His work explores concepts of cultural and historical hybridity ultimately attempting to reexamine Western art history from a Guatemalan perspective.

On view at SCAD Hong Kong's Moot Gallery, this exhibition explores themes of identity, hegemony, globalization and hybridity and features prints, posters and sculptural works from 2006 - present, which have been constructed with thousands of stickers, paper collage and logos.

The list, put together by Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, (of the Nasher Museum in Durham North Carolina), includes 73 artists from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, and will address themes of identity, displacement and cultural hybridity.

From her In - Between Worlds series, a group of images that explore, perform and confront issues of cultural hybridity.

One of the most thought - provoking catalogue narratives is Ligon's «Blue Black,» which discusses the challenges Ofili has faced (and continues to face) in attempting to transition from centralizing concerns about identity, «race,» and social exclusion toward more nuanced and entangled representations focused on cultural syncretism, creolization, and hybridity.

In line with the curatorial focus of DIASPORA: Exit, Exile, Exodus of Southeast Asia, a group exhibition of contemporary art from Southeast Asia about the movement of people in the region since the Vietnam War, and its related aspects of migration, displacement, return, and hybridity, and in support of MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum's dedication to research and education, we are pleased to present a specially curated screening programme on 14 and 15 April.

The idea of a controlled change on materials ranging from steel to cloth creates extraordinary time - based hybridities.

Drawing from the unparalleled collection donated to VMFA by preeminent Hasui collectors René and Carolyn Balcer, the exhibition exemplifies the creativity and cultural hybridity Hasui's work embodies.

Hou Hanru's prolific curatorial work addresses contemporary practice and the conditions of artists living in the diaspora from the perspective of cultural hybridity.

My experience of «hybridity» comes partly from the experience of being a minority in this country.

When invited to organize a show in the temporary exhibition room of Lisbon's Museu do Chiado, the curator João Laia decided to add another dimension to his curatorial concept — hybridity — by expanding the show into other areas of the small museum, which house works from the permanent collection.

It will map out aesthetic and cultural hybridity in modern and contemporary art that has arisen from the dispersal of peoples of Black African descent, and will also present key moments within the cultural politics of the Black Atlantic.

Jeneen Frei Njootli will perform with handmade instruments crafted from female vadzaih (caribou) that embrace and disrupt the hybridity of the Athabascan fiddle in Vuntut Gwitchin culture.

He says, «When I created the piece, A Place To Call Home, it really is for me about this place in my mind where I come from because I think the hybridity of my identities is very hard to place.»

The triennial exhibition, spread across seventeen venues in New Orleans, will feature seventy - three artists from «North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the European powers that colonized New Orleans, addressing issues of identity, displacement, and cultural hybridity within the context of the celebration of the city's tricentennial,» according to an announcement from the event's organizers.

Robert Storr, in his catalog essay for the New Museum, notes that «the work's pictorial frame of reference has changed dramatically from that of the earlier works to a sleek, semisilhouetted semiabstraction reminiscent in some respects of the cutouts of Henri Matisse, and in others of Art Deco murals, while evoking the fusion of these influences in the marvelous rhythmic hybridity of Romare Bearden's collages and prints.»

Artists like Carlos Castro Arias, William Cordova and María Elvira Escallón bring symbols from the past into the present, collapsing temporalities to signal the cultural hybridity and diversity of Latin America's people, and a modern vernacular forged by shared co-existence.

Through sculptures that are activated by light and shadow, Noble and Webster imbue their works with eerie messages of mortality, sex, violence, mythology, hybridity and transformation, oftentimes from a self - portraiture standpoint.