Curated by Phong Bui, both shows are proposed experiments to explore the various conditions that lead to the production of small paintings: how paintings» sizes are determined by artists» conscious and unconscious intentions, and how those sizes, in turn, affect their relation to viewers in the various spaces the artworks quietly
occupy in contemporary visual culture.
Rae rapidly moved through the playbook of abstraction in the 1990s, devouring and re-presenting the tropes and fixations of modernism through the lens of movie and televisual culture, quick to grasp the rapid
changes in contemporary visual culture, and insert her painting practice into the present.
In a series of panels, the artists featured in Photo - Poetics discuss their exhibited work and participate in a group conversation addressing themes related to photographic practices today, including issues of identity, representation, reproduction, and the circulation of
images in contemporary visual culture.
A deconstructive approach to the moving image seemed to be video art's trajectory from the 1990s into the early 21st century, incorporating new developments of photo processing, digital editing and image
layering in contemporary visual culture.
Exploring how methods of display and presentation affect our understanding and experience of space, these new works continue Wermers» investigation of the legacy of modernism and the aesthetics of
consumption in contemporary visual culture.
It is a
given in contemporary visual culture that photography and our relationship to it exist in a constant state of flux, and so I was drawn to work that, in one way or another, addresses how the medium does and does not function, right now.
Since its founding, NOON has sought to provide the global art community with a report on the diverse communication and
research in contemporary visual culture, with particular emphasis on the relationship between theories and contexts of a wide variety of fields.
She earned her BA in Fashion and Cultural Studies at La Sapienza University and completed her academic studies with an MA Degree in Communication from IULM University in Milan, concentrating on the issue of
transdisciplinarity in contemporary visual culture.
AN: I would have to single out each exhibition to do this question justice but let me just give an excellent example with Samuel Fosso's The Black Pope, in which the relentless catholic veneration of
whiteness in contemporary visual culture is resurrected in a restive, darker protesting Samuel Fosso as the Pope.
Volume 03
in the Contemporary Visual Culture in the Middle East series, Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present - day and future contexts for the production, dissemination and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa.
Bianca Cavuti graduated in Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna with a thesis about the relationship between photographic language and surveillance in light of the most recent technological innovations; deeply convinced of the interdependence between different disciplinary areas and of the need to recover a critical gaze on the present, her research deals with
changes in contemporary visual culture.
In contemporary visual culture, we are well aware of the use of technolog...