When I received an email from the Brooklyn Rail asking me to write on the «status and position of the moving
image art today,» the question had already been on my mind, prompted by the recent International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, Germany.
Not exact matches
The
art of telling a good story is so rare
today and you have a true knack for evoking
images with words.
Whilst two new NHS proton treatment centres are under construction in the UK that will provide state - of - the -
art treatments, the proton imaging based on this prototype will enable the most accurate pre-treatment
images of patients, improving on the imaging used
today which is based on x-ray imaging.
Today's post comes loaded with
Art Deco
images.
Scripted by Noah Oppenheim, a former TV news producer and current executive at the
Today show, Jackie is a movie with a historical thesis to argue: that the first first lady to take advantage of the television age was a master manipulator of
image, a practitioner par excellence of the
art of political theater.
The saga continues
today with promo
images for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's box
art showing the removal of both Kojima's name and the Kojima Productions logo from the game's sleeve
art, according to sources from NeoGAF.
Today, as explained on the site, ArtThink provides «in - depth investigation of twentieth - and twenty - first - century
art and artists by using SFMOMA's award - winning interactive programs, Making Sense of Modern Art and Voices and Images of California Art, as the basis for stu
art and artists by using SFMOMA's award - winning interactive programs, Making Sense of Modern
Art and Voices and Images of California Art, as the basis for stu
Art and Voices and
Images of California
Art, as the basis for stu
Art, as the basis for study.
Today, I follow up with some early sketches and dummy
images Duncan sent, as well as a bit of final
art from the book.
The
image above was posted to Mistwalker's website and Facebook account,
today; as you can see, it's very similar in style and color to a lot of the
art we saw for The Last Story, the Wii - exclusive Rainfall RPG from Final Fantasy vet Sakaguchi.
Today in their Weekly Update, Bungie revealed the concept
art and some in game
images of a few of the new weapons that will be included with the upcoming Taken King expansion for Destiny.
Even
today, after decades of appropriation - based
art, some viewers are taken aback, at least momentarily, when they realize that Drexler is «merely» painting over borrowed
images.
1996 Beyond Print: Masterworks from the Ken Tyler Collection, Dr. Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE - SIA College of the
Arts, Singapore (October 24 — December 21) Abstract Expressionism in the United States (Pintura estadounidense expresionismo abstracto), Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City (October 11, 1996 — January 12, 1997) Parallels, Galerie Lelong, New York (opened September 12) Women's Work, Greene Naftali, Inc., New York (September 6 — October 13) Summer show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, (July 1 — August 30) Group show, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York (June 11 — August 1) Forces of the Fifties: Selections from the Albright - Knox
Art Gallery, Wexner Center for the
Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus (May 4 — August 4) Changing group exhibition, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (March 5 — April 6) American
Art Today:
Images from Abroad, Florida International University, Miami (February 23 March 30) Group Exhibition, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (January 13 — March 2)
Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Ambassador's Residence, Bulgaria
Simultaneously classical and contemporary in scope, it contains roughly 300
images, how - to diagrams, and information about figurative
art movements of the past as well as profiles of some of the greatest practitioners working
today... featuring examples of Zeller's own work and also some of his best contemporary peers, who collectively bring the figurative tradition forward into a new era.»
1971 6th Guggenheim International Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Words and
Image, Pinnar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Chronicle of Post-War
Art, The Museum of Modern
Art Kamakura & Hayama, Japan Tokyo Gallery Exhibition 1971, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo / Pinnar Gallery, Tokyo / Saikodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The 10th Contemporary
Art Exhibition of Japan: Humans and Nature, Tokyo Metropolitan
Art Museum, Japan Kyoto Municipal Museum of
Art, Japan Aichi Cultural Hall, Japan Miyazaki Prefectural Museum of Nature and History, Japan Sasebo Central Citizens Hall, Nagasaki, Japan Fukuoka Prefectural Culture Hall, Japan Beaupin Exhibition, Pinnar Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The 1st Anniversary Exhibition & 100th Anniversary of Mainichi Shimbun,
Today's 100 People, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of
Art, Japan Contemporary Japanese Prints, Yokohama Civic
Art Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan Contemporary Japanese
Art, Staempfi Gallery, New York, USA The 5th Japan
Art Festival, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA The 7th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern
Art, Tokyo, Japan The National Museum of Modern
Art, Kyoto, Japan The 5th Japan
Art Festival, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Contemporary Japanese
Art, Staempfi Gallery, New York, USA The 5th Japan
Art Festival, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA The 7th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern
Art, Tokyo, Japan The National Museum of Modern
Art, Kyoto, February 20 - March 21 The 5th Japan
Art Festival, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1985 Special Exhibition Series 1... from 1960s, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The 10th Anniversary of Museum Opening, Contemporary Sculpture in Japan, Wood Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Japan Locus of Contemporary Prints; Post-war Prints by 43 Artists, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of
Art, Japan Conceptual
Art, Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan Self - Portrait
Today, The Museum of Modern
Art, Saitama, Japan 10th Anniversary of New Building 40 Years of Japanese Contemporary
Art, Tokyo Metropolitan
Art Museum, Japan Imaginary Monuments Vision, Dream,
Image, Kaneko
Art Gallery, Tokyo, JapanWith Contemporary
Art - Anniversary of Gallery's Opening Soh Gallery, Tokyo, japan Group Show of Mitsuo Kano, Jiro Takamatsu, and Koichi Tanigawa, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan Yamamura Collection Research Meeting, The National Museum of
Art, Osaka, Japan
Paolini's belief that a work of
art is not just reflective of the «here and now» but is also resonant of earlier traditions, has led him to investigate
art's relation to the past, creating intriguing installations deeply rooted in
art history from the Renaissance to
today - from plaster casts of classical sculptures shattered on the ground, to photographs of iconic paintings by Northern Italian Renaissance painter, Lorenzo Lotto, or inquiries into the construction of the
image.
As significant forefathers from the beginning of the 20th century, they still
today pose valid questions on contextualization, on compositional elements, on language as a medium of the visual
arts, on wordplay, on the mutating
image, as well as on the
art of thinking.
In the
art world, this technique is called «appropriation» and is the one of the most popular forms of
image critique existing
today.
I learned via artnet's Twitter feed that
today is Alex Katz birthday, so to celebrate, here are some
images from «Alex Katz: Maine / New York,» an exhibition at the Colby Museum of
Art that runs through December 30.
1974 Painting and Sculpture
Today, Indianapolis Museum of
Art, Indianapolis, IN Contemporary American Sculpture, The Society of the Four
Arts, Palm Beach, FL Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of
Arts and Letters / National Institute of
Arts and Letters, New York, NY In Her Own
Image, Philadelphia Museum of
Art / Samuel S. Fleisher
Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA Women's Work - American
Art» 74, Philadelphia Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1977 Contemporary Women: Consciousness and Content, Brooklyn Museum of
Art, Brooklyn, NY Drawing
Today in New York, Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY Alumni Fine
Arts Show, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY Contemporary Issues: Works on Paper by Women, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA
Images of Horror and Fantasy, Bronx Museum of the
Arts, Bronx, NY Circa 1963, Buecker and Harpsichords, New York, NY Women's
Art Symposium National Invitational Exhibition, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY
While collecting
images from emerging artists, Saltz generated
art - world buzz and met his future wife, Roberta Smith, who contributed an essay to the anthology and who is
today co-chief
art critic at The New York Times.
Art in General's new commission by 2014 artist Basim Magdy was on view in Oceans of Images: New Photography 2015 at the Museum of Modern Art; 2013 New Commissions Artist Meriç Algün Ringborg was featured in the 14th Istanbul Biennial; 2012 New Commissions Artist Mounira Al Solh participated in the 56th Venice Biennale; Performa Magazine called 2015 New Commissions Artist Lior Shvil's performance «powerful and dizzying»; Artnet News highlighted 2015 International Collaborations Artist, Donna Huanca as «One of the 50 Most Exciting European Artists Today»; and The Guardian named the exhibition by New Commissions Artist Marwa Arsanios as «one of the best American art shows of 2015.&raq
Art in General's new commission by 2014 artist Basim Magdy was on view in Oceans of
Images: New Photography 2015 at the Museum of Modern
Art; 2013 New Commissions Artist Meriç Algün Ringborg was featured in the 14th Istanbul Biennial; 2012 New Commissions Artist Mounira Al Solh participated in the 56th Venice Biennale; Performa Magazine called 2015 New Commissions Artist Lior Shvil's performance «powerful and dizzying»; Artnet News highlighted 2015 International Collaborations Artist, Donna Huanca as «One of the 50 Most Exciting European Artists Today»; and The Guardian named the exhibition by New Commissions Artist Marwa Arsanios as «one of the best American art shows of 2015.&raq
Art; 2013 New Commissions Artist Meriç Algün Ringborg was featured in the 14th Istanbul Biennial; 2012 New Commissions Artist Mounira Al Solh participated in the 56th Venice Biennale; Performa Magazine called 2015 New Commissions Artist Lior Shvil's performance «powerful and dizzying»; Artnet News highlighted 2015 International Collaborations Artist, Donna Huanca as «One of the 50 Most Exciting European Artists
Today»; and The Guardian named the exhibition by New Commissions Artist Marwa Arsanios as «one of the best American
art shows of 2015.&raq
art shows of 2015.»
From our friends at MOMUS,
today we bring you «It's Not Stealing If It's
Art: A Re-Primer On
Image Appropriation for the Internet Generation.»
The two artists repeatedly explore the theme of the virulent marketing of
art and the persona of the artist
today as occurs in corporate design and in
image branding strategies.
Today art and science are coming together as astronomy produces
images of scintillating beauty — perhaps we are returning to the early years of modern science when culture and discovery cohabited.
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Mimmo Rotella (7/10/1918 -8 / 1/2006), inspired from the ripped posters that lined the walls of Rome, Mimmo Rotella became a key figure in the development of Décollage, a technique which involves removing or tearing pieces of an existing
image, rather than building up an
image in the manner of conventional collage.This column is a tribute to artists, living or dead, who have left their mark in Contemporary
Art.
Featuring essays and unpublished texts by critics in contemporary and media
arts, including Joan Fontcuberta, Derrick de Kerckhove, Suzanne Paquet, Fred Ritchin, and David Tomas, the publication was designed to challenge a re-examination of what photography is
today, in a time when communication and transmission of visual data in cyberspace, the boundaries of virtual reality, and the Internet as a global public space proliferate
images and reflect an imaginal reshaping of the world.
Enriched with 150
images, this book is a valuable contribution for unraveling the complexities of politics,
art and culture in
today's China.
The
art of preeminent American modernist Stuart Davis (1892 — 1964) feels especially vital
today in its blurring of distinctions between text and
image, high and low culture, and abstraction and figuration.
Text appears in work by Baldessari, Christopher Wool, and Barbara Kruger, but in different rooms — and as only a small indication of the roles of words and
images everywhere in
art today.
Today his
images are considered some of the most recognizable works of
art history.
Today I use the same set of skills to create my
art projects: I collect texts,
images and video footage, establish their actual or possible relationships, and combine them with my own texts, objects and
images to construct believable counterfactual narratives.
Yet whereas
today's
image culture demands speed, Gnoli's
art suggests another kind of looking: a slow, poetic, and ultimately mysterious gaze in which the commonplace acquires new dimension.
From the notorious queues at her museum shows to hundreds of thousands of
images of her artworks flooding social media, the Japanese avant garde artist inspires a kind of fan mania rarely witnessed in the
art scene
today.
In a guide to intriguing
art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.&raq
art exhibitions nationwide, Judith Dobrzynski features the High Museum of
Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.&raq
Art's «Walker Evans: Depth of Field», a major international retrospective of Evans» work, including
images taken of the American South during the Great Depression; the Denver
Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.&raq
Art Museum's «Women of Abstract Expression», celebrating the contributions of female artists who helped shape the movement in the 1940s and 1950s; the Met Breuer's «Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible», the Museum's inaugural exhibition examining works that were never finished by the artists from the 15th century to
today; the Asian Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.&r
today; the Asian
Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.&raq
Art Museum's «Emperors» Treasures: Chinese
Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.&raq
Art From the National Palace Museum, Taipei», and the Bowdoin College Museum of
Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today.&raq
Art's «This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American
Art, 1912 to Today.&raq
Art, 1912 to
Today.&r
Today.»
Her recently published book, Duty Free
Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, poses uncomfortable questions about today's image culture and the art mark
Art:
Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, poses uncomfortable questions about today's image culture and the art mark
Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, poses uncomfortable questions about
today's
image culture and the
art mark
art market.
The Walker
Art Center generously republished Hrag Vartanian's foreword on their blog
today, with
images by Matthew Deleget and Kat Kiernan.
Artists: Becky Beasley, Paul Caffell, Attila Csörgő, Michael Dean, Liz Deschenes, Raphael Hefti, Corin Hewitt, Ode de Kort, Laura Lamiel, Oliver Laric, Marie Lund, Justin Matherly, Fabio Sandri, Luca Trevisani, Viola Yeşiltaç, and a selection of early publications on the work of Medardo Rosso Exhibition title: The Camera's Blind Spot II Curated by: Simone Menegoi Venue: Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium Date: March 28 — July 19, 2015 Photography: © We Document
Art and © Fabio Sandri,
images courtesy of the artists and Extra City Kunsthal «The Camera's Blind Spot II» focuses on the relationship between sculpture and photography
today.
Today the artist's book — a medium combining
image and text in a book - like package but meant to be engaged with as
art rather than read — is a widely known and wildly popular format, with both established artists like Lawrence Weiner and Richard Tuttle to rising stars like Bjarne Melgaard and Darren Bader creating significant examples.
Today, the transmission of
art occurs not through mimeographs or black - and - white magazine reproductions but via full - color networked
images viewed on various electronic devices.
Finally, no treatment of political
art today would be complete without acknowledging the recent passing of African American printmaker and sculptor, Elizabeth Catlett, whose famous
images Sharecropper and Malcolm X Speaks for Us in the 1960s and 70s, among numerous others, underlie the history of a nation currently deciding whether to re-elect its first African American president.
It is a tantalising taste of what is still to come from one of the world's most prolific and respected living artists, whose insatiable desire to explore the languages and possibilities of painting and
image - making continues to keep him at the forefront of developments in contemporary
art today.
Ralph Rugoff, Stephanie Rosenthal, «MIRRORCITY: London artists on fiction and reality», Hayward Publishing, London, November, pp. 54 - 55 Naomi Beckwith, Donatein Grau, Jennifer Higgie, Lynette Yiadom - Boake, «Lynette Yiadom - Boake», Prestel Publishing David Bindman, Henry Louis Gates Jr., «the
Image of the Black in Western
Art, Part 2», Belknap Harvard, London, pp.297 - 298 «Face To Face, British Portrait Prints from the Clifford Chance art collection», Hampton Printing, Bristol, p. 13 Pinacoteca Agnelli, «Works From The Mario Testino Collection», Rizzoli «A Brush With The Real, Figurative Painting Today», Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, pp.218 -
Art, Part 2», Belknap Harvard, London, pp.297 - 298 «Face To Face, British Portrait Prints from the Clifford Chance
art collection», Hampton Printing, Bristol, p. 13 Pinacoteca Agnelli, «Works From The Mario Testino Collection», Rizzoli «A Brush With The Real, Figurative Painting Today», Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, pp.218 -
art collection», Hampton Printing, Bristol, p. 13 Pinacoteca Agnelli, «Works From The Mario Testino Collection», Rizzoli «A Brush With The Real, Figurative Painting
Today», Laurence King Publishing Ltd, London, pp.218 - 223
Traveled to: Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Hamburger Kunsthalle; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela, 1988 — 1989 Three Decades; The Oliver Hoffmann Collection, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, December 17, 1988 — February 5, 1989 (Catalogue) Identity: Representations of the Self, Whitney Museum of American
Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, December 14, 1988 — February 10, 1989 (Catalogue) Gianfranco Gorgoni: Altered
Images, The Penson Gallery, New York, November 15 — December 10, 1988 (Catalogue) Drawing on the East End: 1940 — 1988, The Parrish
Art Museum, Southampton, New York, September 18 — November 13, 1988 (Catalogue) The Instant Likeness: Polaroid Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., August 27 — December 4, 1988 Aldo Crommelynck, Master Prints with American Artists, Whitney Museum of American
Art at the Equitable Center, New York, August 3 — November 7, 1988 (Catalogue) Fifty - Second National Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American
Art, Youngstown, Ohio, June 26 — August 21, 1988 (Catalogue) Life Like, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, June 4 — 25, 1988 1988, The World of
Art Today, Milwaukee
Art Museum, May 6 — August 28, 1988 (Catalogue) Self As Subject, Katonah Gallery, New York, January 24 — March 6, 1988
His
art is an expressive weave of textual quotations, painting, drawing and squiggles inspired by various sources, and infused with a range of autobiographical, historical and multi-cultural associations.Consumer culture and artmaking continue to be relevant topics
today and are being reexamined in a critical, disillusioned manner: Richard Prince raises questions concerning authenticity by appropriating, recycling, duplicating and manipulating existing
images.
Recent Solo and Group Exhibitions include: Dark, Boijmans Museum curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, Rotterdam» Afterhours», GEM, the museum of contemporary
art, The Hague; «I Love My Scene» Mary Boone Gallery New York curated by Jose Freire, «Youth of Today» Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, «The Image is Gone», Gallery Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, «Low Intensity Conflict» Swiss Institute, New York, 2006; «First we take museums» KIASMA, Helsinki, «Superstars» Kunstforum Vienna, «Leaps of Faith», UN Green zone Cyprus, curated by Katerina Gregos, «Emergencies, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, «Populism», National Museum of Art, Oslo / Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius / Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, «On Patrol, De Appel, Amsterdam, «Festival of Dreams (part 2) «curated by James Fuentes, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New Yo
art, The Hague; «I Love My Scene» Mary Boone Gallery New York curated by Jose Freire, «Youth of
Today» Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, «The
Image is Gone», Gallery Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, «Low Intensity Conflict» Swiss Institute, New York, 2006; «First we take museums» KIASMA, Helsinki, «Superstars» Kunstforum Vienna, «Leaps of Faith», UN Green zone Cyprus, curated by Katerina Gregos, «Emergencies, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, «Populism», National Museum of
Art, Oslo / Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius / Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, «On Patrol, De Appel, Amsterdam, «Festival of Dreams (part 2) «curated by James Fuentes, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New Yo
Art, Oslo / Contemporary
Art Centre, Vilnius / Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, «On Patrol, De Appel, Amsterdam, «Festival of Dreams (part 2) «curated by James Fuentes, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New Yo
Art Centre, Vilnius / Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt / Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, «On Patrol, De Appel, Amsterdam, «Festival of Dreams (part 2) «curated by James Fuentes, Lombard Freid Fine
Arts, New York.
1995 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee
Art Museum, USA Selected Works from the Collection The Irish Museum of Modern
Art, Dublin, Ireland Black & White & Read All Over, La Salle Lobby Gallery, Nationsbank Plaza, Charlotte, USA American
Art Today: Night Paintings, The
Art Museum, FL InternationalUniversity, Miami, USA The Artist's Camera, Photographs by Contemporary Artists, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA From Impulse to
Image, Virginia Museum of Fine
Arts, Richmond, USA Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration for Human Rights, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland Louvre, Paris, France, Commissioned for a special print edition Print Cabinet, Musee d'
art Moderne, Geneva, Switzerland Philadelphia Museum of
Art, PA Commissioned for a special print edition From Picasso to Woodrow: Suite of prints Long Vertical Falls, Tate Gallery, London, England
Navigating between
art historical references, the existing
art context and the aesthetics of the every day Bonacina's practice emphasizes the importance of the manifestation of meaning through the use of iconic elements such as
images, actions and customs which are rooted and constantly reproduced in the collective
today.
He was the first to return figuration to postwar American painting, was innovative in his combination of «high
art» with
images from popular culture, and is
today celebrated as the pioneer of postmodern, figurative painting.