Sentences with phrase «into social sculpture»

Emerging from the dynamic arts program at Goldsmiths College, University of London, in the late 1980s, Gillick expanded into social sculpture, cultural critique, and «Relational Aesthetics,» the critic Nicolas Bourriaud's term for art within a context of relationships.

Not exact matches

Since receiving his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1998, Los Angeles — based artist Jedediah Caesar has gained international recognition for sculptures that amass found materials into systems that reveal new patterns, often abstract, sometime social.

«Public Projects: 1990 — 1993» displayed the archive of Ben Kinmont's ongoing investigation into the creation of what he calls «Social Sculptures.»

We'll look back into the past and contemplate the future of civil rights and social justice and explore the connections between history and contemporary art by examining the legacy of President Johnson and visiting The Contemporary Austin's rooftop sculpture With Liberty and Justice for All (A Work in Progress) by artist Jim Hodges.

While photography has been her primary medium, she has also incorporated drawing, text, sound, sculpture and video into work that evocatively engages with the intersection of photography, social history and personal memory.

Some recent examples include: Milwaukee Art Museum 2010 where Gates invited a gospel choir into the galleries to sing songs adapted from inscriptions on pots by the famous 19th century slave and potter «Dave Drake»; the Whitney Biennial, 2010 when the Sculpture Court was transformed with an architectural installation functioning as communal gathering space for performances, social engagement, and contemplation.

Sosnowska's sculpture transposes these social forces into the gallery space, amplifying and transforming them into a unified and impactful aesthetic encounter.

Establishing a virtuous circle between fine art and social progress, Gates strips dilapidated buildings of their components, transforming those elements into sculptures that act as bonds or investments, the proceeds of which are used to finance the rehabilitation of entire city blocks.

The artist Robert Buck's drawings, sculptures and video installations reflect his sensitive investigations into how people respond to today's diverse social and cultural changes.

Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.

Since his inclusion in the 2010 Whitney Biennial — whose Sculpture Court he transformed into an installation that served as a communal gathering space for performances, social engagement, and meditation — Gates has become a near ubiquitous presence in museum exhibitions, biennials, and lecture halls throughout North America, Europe, and beyond, showing his sculpture, channeling African - American musical traditions, and preaching a gospel of ground - up urban revitaSculpture Court he transformed into an installation that served as a communal gathering space for performances, social engagement, and meditation — Gates has become a near ubiquitous presence in museum exhibitions, biennials, and lecture halls throughout North America, Europe, and beyond, showing his sculpture, channeling African - American musical traditions, and preaching a gospel of ground - up urban revitasculpture, channeling African - American musical traditions, and preaching a gospel of ground - up urban revitalization.

Over a thirty year career, Kudo, who worked in France and Japan, developed an extremely complex body of sculpture, installation, and performance - based work in reaction both to World War II and Japan's subsequent transformation into an industrial society and to European Humanism which, he believed, abetted environmental degradation and social malaise.

In detailed, large - scale drawings, installations, sculptures and objects, Avery forms a bizarre imaginary reality out of diverse philosophical ideas and concepts: Fabulous creatures, deities, tourists and adventurers are embedded in a complex social structure, merging into an entire cosmos that ranges between pure fantasy and theoretical reflection.more

«At this moment, when the environment and culture are so under threat, Huyghe's imaginative, uncanny approach to the serious ecological and social issues facing our planet tie his oeuvre to the ancient purposes of sculpture: they possess a shamanistic quality which tips the mimetic into life,» Mr. Strick added.

Installations such as «A New System Every Monday» and «All that is Solid Melts into Air» mix print media, sculpture, painting, drawing and video to point out architectural, institutional, historical, and social spaces.

Amber Ginsburg creates site - generated projects and social sculpture that insert historical scenarios into present day situations.

Modified Social Benches are witty sculptures that reinvent the form of the park bench, turning it into a lyrical and evocative work of art.

Harold Ancart, born in 1980, is a Belgian artist who combines paintings, drawings, and mixed media sculptures into large installations that draw attention to the social and architectural condition of the space in which the work is exhibited.

Mr. Dial — who is illiterate, tended animals as a little boy and later welded railway cars — translated his social messages into paintings and sculptures that are only now being embraced by the art world.

By incorporating a selection of memorabilia and design objects into the works that reinterpret the Interlocking Sculptures, the project expands this notion and approximates new aspects in which the formal becomes historical, whilst the exhibition itself becomes a sort of stage linking the aesthetic to the social and political.

How can we encourage individuals to rise above their own limitations and old habits that were dictated by their various upbringings, while working to transform the Rail into a post-Beuysian social sculpture, an artwork?

At the time, while I recognized in the installations in which Tonoshiki threw together and brought into dynamic coexistence waste lumber from demolished houses, driftage from the ocean, abandoned televisions and other domestic waste, and scrapped vehicles on the one hand and natural outdoor settings or orderly exhibition rooms in art museums on the other, a common spirit with the cyber-punk-like junk aesthetic that was then reaching its peak (see the work of Seiko Mikami, for example), the only thing I sensed Tonoshiki was stressing — particularly given that he had been influenced by the social sculpture of Joseph Beuys — was probably that the concept of «reversal» could be found in the act of almost violently recycling useless objects that had served their function and were merely waiting to be disposed.

So what better time for Martinez to come to Dia: Chelsea to discuss one of its most publicly minded artists, Joseph Beuys, who invented the notion of «social sculpture,» which turned social, cultural and political concerns into art.

Using social media, public art in the form of a sculpture, and video documentation, the project is Roescheisen's first to transfer art and digital media into a peace dialogue on the global stage.

Be Dammed encompasses sculpture, photography, video and a performance series, and reflects the artist's ongoing query into the development of mega-infrastructures over natural and social landscapes.

Artists in this passage of «Revolution in the Making» engage space more aggressively in order to work through questions of structure and materials, drawing performance, social critique, and previously untried mediums into their sculpture.

Through five rooms, the Jamaica - born Ward creates fictional experiences for the viewer by skewing found material, photography, collage, video, social documentation, and sculpture into art objects.