Sentences with phrase «into monumental works»

Transforming the everyday man, woman, and child into monumental works of art, these casts evidence the trust and respect that both Ahearn and Torres established with South Bronx residents.

For ABTJ, he will transform a downtown building into a monumental work of minimalist sculpture.

Pendleton appropriates the opening words of the text — «If the function of writing is to «express the world»» — and transforms it into monumental work spanning the entirety of the constructed wall.

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The discovery is important for reasons beyond the city's age — it throws into question many assumptions on which a great deal of archaeological work is based, because the inhabitants of Caral built a social and political structure, not to mention monumental architecture, without the trappings of writing, metallurgy, or ceramics.

The new edition of Encyclopaedia Judaica brings a monumental reference work into the twenty - first century.

Featuring 60 paintings and collages made between 1954 and 2013, the exhibition was monumental in both scope and effect: by showing a less frequently seen side of Katz's work, it prompted the viewer to reconsider the artist's overall project, now well into its sixth decade.

What has never been sufficiently taken into account by «serious» criticism is the character of these works as monumental and ironic put - ons, blagues, a favorite form of destructive wit of the period, inflated to gigantic dimensions — pictorial versions of those endemic pranks which threatened to destroy all serious values, to profane and vulgarize the most sacred verities of the times.

In his new works, Matthew Woodward continues his exploration of drawing and its boundaries, pushing his work further into ideas central to architecture and the built - environment at large: transparency, differentiation and repeatability, the artificial and the monumental; each called to attention through a material dexterity that is as illuminating in Woodward's work as it is compromised.

The 164 - acre Museum Park is home to more than a dozen monumental works of art, with artists actively involved in the restoration of the Park's landscape and the integration of art into its natural systems.

Working on site they will make a monumental installation from paper and cardboard, reshaping the materials into building blocks with the help of giant handmade tools.

Cowan describes her three bronze works on the grounds as a «gentle intrusion» into a space defined by monumental sculpture and a manmade landscape.

The size of her monumental works, such as The Dinner Party (1974 — 79) and The Holocaust Project: From Darkness Into Light (1985 — 93), would require a major museum to step up, but so far, they have not.

Under the new leadership of Rodman Primack, who made his mark in London as chairman of Phillips de Pury & Company, the tented design fair translated the branding sponsorship of Perrier - Jouët, Audi, Fendi, Louis Vuitton and Swarovski into the dazzle of such over-the-top showpieces as a glittered sculpture of King Kong climbing Dubai's Burj Khalifa hotel, a monumental wood - hewn structure commissioned from Seattle architect Olson Kundig to house the cafeteria, furniture commissioned by Herman Miller from French modernist Pierre Paulin circa 1972, but realised only now, and a stream of technology - driven works involving a table whose motor sensors raised handcrafted metal flora at the viewer's approach, a clock spinning out countless time zones beforesettling on local time, and an installation by architect Jeanne Gang and photographer James Balog involving a resin iceberg, pierced with brilliants and set against an Arctic panorama.

Galerie Lelong presents 14 striking new sculptures by Petah Coyne in Vermilion Fog, an exhibition divided into two parts — Dante's Inferno and Unforgiven, allusions to literature and film that loosely frame the works by themes of loss, chaos, and redemption.Vermilion Fog is a monumental exhibition for the artist known for her use of diverse materials in large works whose grace and fragility belie their immense weight and arduous process.

Smithson, meanwhile, created what is arguably the best known work of land art in the world with his monumental Spiral Jetty (1970), a rock formation built into northern Utah's Great Salt Lake.

Choosing to lean into the hardship of his experiences, Dial's body of work chronicles his life, using a range of techniques from colorful works on paper to monumental sculptures and densely packed assemblages of found materials.

Taraval Beach (1977), another monumental floor - to - ceiling work, seems to the viewer less like a flat surface and more like an opening into a three - dimensional dark void.

Over the last four years, Zeitz has put around 150 pieces into the grounds at Segera, including monumental bronze, stone and steel works, land and earth art, and outdoor projections.

Monumental works by young artists, sun - drenched French fishing villages, and a British garden in bloom — inject some warmth into the winter months with these stunning summer scenes.

Similarly, Tyson's monumental modular work combines over 220 separate sculptural forms into a single Field Array, which is designed to operate as a gigantic experimental lens for viewing some of the fundamental forces that make up reality» (excerpt from the press release (PDF)-RRB-.

Known for his massive installations built from industrial materials that take the menace implicit in Minimalism and throttle it into overdrive, the Polish Mirosław Bałka is well known on the European museum and biennial circuit — his 2009 work in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall, which resembled a monumental cattle car (with a ramp leading visitors into its pitch - black interior), stunned audiences — but he has only shown rarely in New York.

His monumental work, The Entry of Christ into New York II, was most recently acquired for the lobby of the Hôtel de Ville (City Hall), in Brussels, Belgium.

Produced over a quarter of a century beginning in 1964, the maquettes offer a unique view into the sculptor's creative process: some illustrate the origins of compositions for monumental works, while others document ideas not realized ultimately in large scale or provide fascinating examples of early sculptural ideas that underwent significant transformation as they emerged as full - scale sculptures in the exhibition chronicle Arneson's evolution as an artist and the development of his freewheeling creativity and prodigious imagination.

As the series developed into larger monumental works, Saint Phalle used composite fiberglass - reinforced polyester plastic (also known as FRP or GRP) decorated with multiple bright - colored acrylic or polyester paints.

Framed by two monumental works on the wall, the sounds and movements of 8 kinetic works, draw the visitors into their spell.

As well as the monumental works, look out for some of Gupta's recent experiments with sound and enjoy the delicious irony of his exhibiting in an institution created (way back in 864 CE) to turn metal into objects of desire, worth and economic exchange.

The gallery divides the show into two rooms, mostly based on size, with her monumental graphite drawings in the larger central gallery and a handful of smaller works in the back.

The works that are on display at MAMbo consist of both monumental canvases which provide space for sprawling narratives of compositional complexity and smaller paintings which focus on the study of individual subjects, portraits that push the figures portrayed into the foreground, as if under a microscope.

Over the summer, Colombian artist Oscar Murillo, known for his monumental installations of black flags at the Venice Bienniale in 2015 (and more recently incorporated into this year's Sharjah Biennial), came to Ras al - Amud to take this ongoing body of work, «The Institute of Reconciliation,» in a new direction.

French - American sculptor Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) incorporated archetypes and sexual themes into highly personal works and monumental sculptures of spiders.

I Refuse to be Invisible, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's kaleidoscopic painting, is an illustration of her pioneering practice in which she draws together a wide range of contemporary themes — including the role of traditional cultures in modern society, the proliferation of the mass media and the history of western painting — into one monumental work.

Examine an intriguing collaboration of sculptural works by Peter Demetz, Caroline d'Andlau Hombourg and Rogerio Timoteo, signature seascape paintings by Antonis Titakis, Javier Banegas» continued exploration into colour and composition and Pedro Campos» monumental works on canvas as well as many more captivating examples of hyper - realistic artwork.

The opening of NSU Art Museum's exhibition is timed with Art Basel Miami Beach and also coincides with the permanent exhibition of Kiefer's monumental installations at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, providing South Florida audiences with the opportunity for a unique immersion into the artist's work.

In Stage and Twist a child drinks a mixture of Pepsi and Coca - Cola, a giant puzzle is played by two half - naked young men, an iconic work by Yves Klein is re-enacted with the artist leaping into the void and hitting the pavement below and a group of workers assemble a monumental sculpture out of scaffolding in an empty field.

The opening of this exhibition coincides with the permanent exhibition of Kiefer's monumental installations at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, providing South Florida audiences with the opportunity for a unique immersion into the artist's work.

Located in the imposing Palazzo Falier on the Grand Canal, Land Sea will feature a broad selection of new works, many monumental in scale and conceived specifically for this exhibition, offering compelling insight into Sean Scully's recent practice and reaffirming his position as one of the leading figures of abstract painting.

These works are joined by five new monumental sculptures of the body (as interpreted through interlocking steel beams) and two new Blockworks that translate the body into a network of rectangles to construct seemingly architectural realms.

MJ In your last show you break from the monumental size of your previous work into the A4 scale that has the potential to be tiled out infinitely.

The artists reflect on the transformation of the work from handmade maquettes into monumental sculptures, using the lost wax method of casting, an entirely new method for...

In the main gallery, Price will show three large - scale sculptures that continue the expansion of his practice into more monumental sizes, which he began working on shortly after his last exhibition at the gallery in 2006, in which he debuted his first large - scale piece.

These monumental — not to mention monumentally pricey — works don't fit easily into most people's homes, let alone the average New York apartment.

Whether it was de Kooning who recommended that he work large, bringing the brush strokes into monumental focus, or he came up with the idea himself doesn't make much difference.

«Ian Strange is best known for his «suburban interventions» — works which violently rupture homes from quiet streets, turning their facades into a monumental — and unsettling — canvas.

Pixel Pancho is known for his monumental murals across the globe and now he settles into the gallery to exhibit a different scale of work.

His notable works include Double Negative (1969 - 70), a pair of trenches in the desert near Overton, Nevada, created by displacing 240,000 tons of rock, and City, an ongoing project in Lincoln County, Nevada, described by critic Michael Kimmelman as «a suite of giant, variously shaped abstract sculptures over an area that covers more than a mile end to end — modern art turned into monumental abstract architecture, with ancient ruins as the model.»

But if Brazil sounds a tad more manageable, it's still quite a lot to fit into one exhibition: four centuries of art and culture represented by 350 items ranging from Dutch depictions of the Brazilian landscape, Amazonian feather capes, and a monumental Baroque altarpiece to Neo-Concrete objects by Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark and works by contemporary artists like Ernesto Neto.

Her newest work «After Duchamp» merges fifty individual aura portraits into one monumental work that brilliantly captures how the idiosyncratic and ephemeral beauty of the individual unconscious shapes the collective spirituality of a culture.

Often working on a large if not monumental scale, she takes ordinary, domestic items - such as platters and chargers - and elevates them into powerful, sculptural objects.

On the exterior of Pier 94, the internationally renowned artist and Academy Award nominee, JR, will debut a monumental new work, transforming archival Ellis Island photographs into a large - scale installation.

The flattest work in the exhibition, the monumental paintings could be read as suggesting the dustbowl conditions into which Goode would have grown up, of the unstoppable power of forces larger than us.