Sentences with phrase «idea of landscape»

The exhibition will present a suite of new photographs that further the artist's investigation into ideas of landscape.
This exhibition, curated by Dan Cameron, explored ideas of landscape as metaphor, the grey area between abstraction and representation, and the desire to deny categorization in terms of artwork that belongs to a specific medium.
Ten years on, when the call to make an application for the Contemporary Art Society Collections Fund at Frieze was announced we felt it was an opportunity to push further in our engagement with ideas of landscape that is so central to the story of Towner.
She chooses to push organic life to a level of entropy and encourage the viewer to put preconceived ideas of landscape painting aside to become involved with the world on the canvas before them.
Exploring ideas of landscape, Tacita Dean presents a range of work including a new experimental film in this exhibition supported by Art Fund.
Teresita Fernández: I cull from a lot of established ideas of landscape, but I'm also questioning them and trying to provide a very different series of lenses to amplify what the word «landscape» means.
February 2011 LUCKY STRIKE, in ANOTHER IDEA OF LANDSCAPE A group show curated by Samuel François at École Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Nancy From left to right: Justin Morin, Claire Decet, Jean - Baptiste Bernadet, Renato Leotta, Samuel François, Renato Leotta Exhibition also presents works by Olivier Kosta - Théfaine, Israel Lund and Jérémie Egry, and other works by Claire Decet and Samuel Francois
James Ireland combines found images with natural and industrial materials to make sculptures that play on traditional and modern ideas of landscape.
, juxtaposing the works of five artists engaged with ideas of landscape and the natural world: Andrea Carlson (Minneapolis); Annie MacDonell (Toronto); Kevin Schmidt (Vancouver); Jennifer Rose Sciarrino (Toronto); and Erin Shirreff (New York).
AN EXHIBITION OF NEW WORK BY CATHERINE OPIE AT REGEN PROJECTS Opening Reception: Saturday, April 24, 6:00 — 8:00 pm The exhibition will present a suite of new photographs that further the artist's investigation into ideas of landscape.
It was there that Thomas Cole and William Stillman, founding members of the Hudson River School Painters (1825 - 1875), developed the idea of landscape painting as an exercise in seeking truth, a truth found through close contact with nature and a disciplined observation of it.»
And so that's a very limited notion of what the idea of landscape is, especially if you look at non-Western traditions — and not just traditions, but conceptualizations of what place and landscape are.
, known for her large - scale sculptures and public installations that often interrogate and explore the idea of a landscape contributes a large - scale charred and disjunctive map of America, suggesting the fraught history of this deeply divided country.
Her work captures audiences emotionally and aesthetically and engages very directly with the idea of landscape that from the beginning has been at the heart of Towner's Collection.»
Brooklyn - based Teresita Fernández, known for her large - scale sculptures and public installations that often interrogate and explore the idea of a landscape contributes a large - scale charred and disjunctive map of America, suggesting the fraught history of this deeply divided country.
The exhibition at Fondation Beyeler focuses on Jean Dubuffet's idea of landscape, which in his hands can transform itself into a body, a face or an object.
Over the past decade or so she has focused purely on landscape painting, drawing on the conventions and traditions of the genre and its history, and creating paintings which tread a skilful line between forms of conventional natural representation and abstraction, amplifying the experience or idea of landscape.
Running through her work is a concern with the idea of landscape; specifically how landscape exists, by definition, as a view or representation — a space or scene that can never be reached physically.
The ideas of landscape as literal and as illusion are illustrated by the play between actual texture of the surface of the painting landscape and simulated atmospheric depth.
This 17th - century French artist who settled in Rome created, alongside his contemporary Nicolas Poussin, the idea of landscape as a lofty, serious artistic genre full of symbolism as well as natural beauty.
Shane Heinemeier's work is an abstraction of the idea of landscape, and the method of landscape painting.
Artists in the show sketch their idea of landscape through sculpture, drawing and painting.
Mapping the idea of landscape, Qureshi's floral ornaments cover canvases and penetrate spaces like vines.
These early fieldwork journeys provided source material for him as an artist and the idea of landscape, sedimentation, and layers has become key elements in his work.
For all of these reasons, Neto's works are not just soft - sculpture, not only mere fun adult - playgrounds, but represent your experience of a moment, an idea of landscape, a dream, a symphony, a noise, an impulse, a feeling, an enigma meant to be sensed in the flesh.
Both films explored the idea of landscape as something created and maintained, as well as uncontrollable and sublime.
«They paved paradise and put up a parking lot» — Joni Mitchell The idea of paradise is about as slippery as the idea of landscape: no two are exactly alike.
This includes a study of the historic and symbolic density of architectural structures, different representations of the idea of landscape and the elements that visually compose our understanding of what is constructed and what is natural.
Throughout his career, Turner revolutionised the idea of landscape painting.
These take the idea of landscape — in particular the rock formations of New Mexico — as their conceptual foundation, while the related exterior fountains meditate on the flow of water and the human body, as well as the idea of plenty and abundance.
On a closer look, the inkling of a landscape appears behind the abstraction, without being concretely definable and palpable — perhaps more an idea of landscape, pervaded by splotches of color, drops, and melting colors.
«It has to do with the sense of how our mind constructs the idea of landscape and of place - both conceptual and physical place.»
The works in the exhibition play with the idea of landscape to varying degrees.
Ati Maier's compact paintings and drawings explode the idea of landscape from a singular view to a weaving vision of terrrestrial, cosmic and abstracted spaces in carnival colours.
Baer's paintings deal with the idea of landscape or stagescape, with articulation and deconstruction, and with narration.
JS: You started out making figurative work, and I have heard you refer to the idea of landscape itself as a figure.
She called it «both an idea of a landscape and a floating miniature landscape itself».
This underscores the idea of the landscape approach.
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