(Porto Alegre, Brazil) The show approaches the role of walking
in the contemporary artistic practice with its many unfoldings and possibilities and also brings up important social, political and poetic issues that permeate contemporary art.
Painting as a genre and idea of mobility and mimesis — moving readily between graphic optical forms, versioning of the artistic self, and gestural pose — is
explored in contemporary artistic practices that embrace a spirit of rupture, allowance, and divided attentions.
Object - based art, which grew into a major twentieth - century trend and continues today, took its cue from the ready - made, and Re-Object explores the continuation and transformation of both
lines in contemporary artistic practice, via large - format photographs and analytical essays on the artists.
Both of these documentary holdings are
specialised in contemporary artistic practices, focusing on a timeframe that matches that covered by the Museum's exhibitions and activities and by the artworks in the MACBA Collection, with which they are closely linked.
Following the exhibition Voyage to the Virtual, this evening engages artists, curators, and critics in a conversation that takes up Youngblood's quest for the utilization of new technologies in aesthetic experience, and considers the relationship between
expressions in contemporary artistic practice, expanded perception, and consciousness.
Thanks to our new expanded home, the show also marks the first time in our history that ICA Miami will have the space to bring together historical and recent works to address key
forces in contemporary artistic practice, and contemporary life and society,» said Alex Gartenfeld, Deputy Director and Chief Curator.
However, it also prompts the viewers to re-think the definition of calligraphy as they know it, and to acknowledge its far - reaching conceptual possibilities and the impactful role that it has to
play in contemporary artistic practice.
It is the Audain gallery's mission to encourage «conceptual and experimental projects that explore the dialogue between the social and the
cultural in contemporary artistic practices» and SFU prides itself on its adherence to the principles of an autodidactic education, placing an emphasis on «self - directed and individual modes of learning».
The French theorist's obsession with things and their absence, reality and its disappearance into illusion, set the stage for much of the appropriation art of the 1980s, which is today acknowledged as one celebrated
mode in contemporary artistic practice.
She is
interested in contemporary artistic practices that explore the contamination and limits of languages, seeking to convey a sense of the process rather than the result, experiencing the dilation of the natural boundaries of cultural actions.
One senses a certain hedging on the part of the editors in placing an active nun, even a liberal one, too
squarely in contemporary artistic practice — it would seem that a decommissioned one has more credibility in the art world.
To allow for ample research and project development, and time to collaborate with the creative community at SEA Foundation, the curator in residence is offered a light program — suited to needs — where artists, curators, and other arts professionals come together to create work and discuss
themes in contemporary artistic practice.
In presenting historic paintings, such as Francisco de Zurbarán's A Cup of Water and a Rose (about 1630) from the National Gallery collection alongside works made by her contemporaries including Thomas Demand, Roni Horn and Wolfgang Tillmans and her own film Prisoner Pair (2008, 16 mm), the exhibition will demonstrate the continued importance of still life, as well as the National Gallery's collection, as a source of
inspiration in contemporary artistic practice.
These exhibitions are united in their battle to define «sculpture», a category that has become increasingly slippery, even obsolete,
in contemporary artistic practice.