Sentences with phrase «ironies of contemporary»

Zoë Charlton creates drawings that explore the ironies of contemporary social and cultural stereotypes.

The Sign of Peace is shown to derive from the Lord's «Peace be with you» on Easter night (Stravinskas notes the irony of contemporary disagreements about giving it).

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What he produces is an anatomy of suffering the major axis of which is the irony that «battles over the value of suffering intensify in the contemporary world precisely at the same time people in ever greater numbers discard the notion that suffering is an inevitable part of human experience.»

With biting irony he turns to his pious contemporaries, and, leaving them in full possession of the field of dispute as with a bow of mock humility, we can imagine, he asks simply: «You know the answer; won't you tell me?»

It is a painful irony that some of the very policies Seyss - Inquart could not force upon Netherlander doctors have been willingly embraced by their contemporary counterparts — including the technically illegal but widely accepted infanticide of disabled babies.

Very true, and the irony is that contemporary Russians are tricked by Putin to admire their communist past when in fact 1/6 of the russia's population was killed by their psychopathic regime for no reason other than to insinuating terror on the remaining 5/6 survivors.

«The irony is that Governor Emmanuel made these comments at an event where Senator Godswill Akpabio, one of Dino Melaye's contemporaries in the Senate, empowered his own people with 4 tractors, over 800 power - generating sets, grain - grinding machines, and block molding machines.

Colin Farrell, sporting a «dad bod» and soup - strainer moustache recalling Joaquin Phoenix in Her (decidedly a blueprint for contemporary renditions of dystopia), finds himself caught in this detention system after being left by his wife, and after an unfruitful dalliance with a sociopathic fellow inmate, escapes into the woods and joins a group of militantly celibate rebel fighters led by Léa Seydoux (who bans sexual relations within their ranks), but — oh the irony!

He might not be a space Viking or a talking raccoon, but Captain America was almost as tricky a character to bring to the screen in the 21st century as some of his Marvel contemporaries — standing for sincerity and purity in an age of grittiness and irony, and wearing the stars - and - stripes in an age when international box - office is key.

A brilliantly imagined, gorgeously written novel, vivid and alive, utterly without the distanced irony of so much contemporary fiction.

While a critic of 1843 saw «a club, a people's bank or a phalanstery» in «this dream of the gardens of Academe,» and noted the unusual amalgamation of Horace's Odes and Plato's dialogues with the steamship and the telegraph, the expendability of these contemporary elements is revealed when L'Artiste announces that Papety, on the basis of critical advice, has replaced his steamboat with a Greek temple, «which,» remarks the anonymous critic, with unconscious irony, «is perhaps more ordinary but also more severe than socialism in painting.»

However, they lack the tinge of irony found in the paintings of her contemporaries, such as John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage.

From his earliest works, Mellors has explored themes tied to contemporary society, from mediation and cultural systems, to technology, art and civilization through the use of video, installations, puppets and animatronics equipped with an irreverent and cutting irony.

Once she stood for a sea change in contemporary art, as new media entered the galleries, as women gave the idea of self - expression a political dimension, and as irony or staged photography became the new norm.

Working in a style that links mystery, irony, and realism, Derrick Guild channels the Dutch Rococo and seventeenth century Spanish painting in contemporary depictions of everyday objects isolated on dark backgrounds.

Sculptors like Jessica Stockholder, Rachel Harrison, and Jessica Jackson Hutchins make similar work with deceptively generic features, a more or less gloppy formlessness that resists categorization and herein lies the irony: these features, ineffably formed blobs, provocative agglutinations of commercial materials with infusions of color, don't easily fall into an aesthetic history, yet, their openness deems an interest not attributed to standard discourse that normally makes a contemporary form worthy of contemplation.

Twenty years ago a handful of artists, most of them women, helped move photography into the mainstream of contemporary art, with strategies of irony and appropriation.

Symbolism and irony are present in the work of some contemporary Chinese artists, particularly in those who practice the highly satirical Political Pop style, but what is striking about the four artists in Transformations is an earnest attitude, almost with no hint of irony.

After all, conceptual art has gone through more than enough ironic takes on irony and appropriations of appropriation, with contemporary artists after the «Pictures generation» after late Warhol after Dada.

For there are surely few contemporary painters as romantic as himself: in an age when the medium is freighted with irony and anxiety and self - justifications, Doig's pictures are silent, wonderstruck, contemplative affairs which have prompted comparisons with the likes of Munch, Bonnard, Beckmann, Van Gogh and, yes, Gauguin.

Kasseböhmer's decided renunciation of irony struck a distinct contrast to many of his contemporary Cologne painter colleagues and their ideas about the end of painting.

They have used the means of contemporary art, from the exploration of gender and identity to the use of irony and humor, to transform their personal experiences of Islam and Islamic art into universal ones.

The letter argues that Büchel's piece makes plain «the failures of Contemporary Art: concerned more with spectacle and irony than critically dismantling oppressive structures that undermine the lives of the most vulnerable....

1994 Possible Things, Bardamu Gallery, New York, USA (Vik Muniz, Curator) Choice, Chance and Irony, Todd Gallery, London; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, England Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, England (Greg Hilty and Adrian Searle, Curators) Le Temps D'Un Dessin, Galerie De L'École Des Beaux - Arts, Lorient, France, (Phillippe Briet, Curator) Written / Spoken / Drawn in Lacanian Ink, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA Bravin Post Lee, New York, USA Painting, Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, USA About Color, Charles Cowles, New York, USA 8 Rooms for Paiting, Galeri F15 Alby, Moss, Norway (Gertrud Sandquist, Curator) Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA The Assertive Image: Artists of the Eighties from the Eli Broad Family Foundation, U.C.L.A. at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller, New York, USA On Paper, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, USA Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA American Paining Now, Galleries Caterina Fossati, Eva Menzio, Giovanni Rimoldi, Turin, Italy Tutti Questi Mondi, Galleria Carini, Prato, Italy

The first project to explore the visual art, poetry and music of one of America's most inventive yet under - recognized contemporary Native American artists, this exhibition will survey Cannon's highly productive but short career; his development of a unique and hybrid visual vocabulary; and his combination of irony and wit with a reverence for community and tradition to interrogate American history and popular culture; as well as the issues wrought by colonialism, hegemony, and historical amnesia — all through his Native lens.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Icons, Plataforma 91, São Paulo, Brazil 2016 Shift, Stretch, Expand: Everyday Transformations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, California 2015 POP, Halcyon Gallery, London 2015 The British Are Coming, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2015 Pelé: Art, Life, Football, Halcyon Gallery, London 2015 Heroes and Villains, Halcyon Gallery, London 2014 Lost Angels, Mead Carney Fine Art, London 2014 POP - FICTION, 212 Gallery, London 2014 Giant, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2014 The Shock of the New, Mead Carney Fine Art, Porto Montenegro 2014 Marilyn, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2014 Kunst, Vertes Modern, Zurich 2014 Grafix 14, Vertes Modern, Zurich 2013 Rethinking the American Dream, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2013 Works on Paper, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong 2013 David Bowie, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 2013 Icons and Irony, Long - Sharp Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana 2013 Rock, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2013 The Art of Elysium, Los Angeles, California 2012 The Rolling Stones: 50 Years of Rocking the Art World: a Celebration of The Rolling Stones, The Broome Street Gallery and Symbolic London, New York 2012 The Image is One Thing, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2012 Summer Exhibition, Scream Gallery, London 2012 Marilyn: 50 Years, Guy Hepner, Los Angeles 2012 Marilyn, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2011 POP and Contemporary American Art, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2011 New York, Tagliatella Gallery, Paris 2011 Arts for a Better World, Tagliatella Gallery, Miami 2011 It's A Wonderful Life, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2011 Pop Pop, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2011 Scream Now, Scream Gallery, London 2011 Hueless, Mallick Williams Gallery, New York 2011 Works on Paper, Whisper Fine Art, London 2011 Heaven Gala, Art of Elysium, Los Angeles, California 2011 Printer Proofs, Bertrand Delacroix Gallerym New York 2010 Diamonds Are Forever, Scream Gallery, London 2010 The Art of Giving, The Saatchi Gallery London 2009 Christmas Show, Scream Gallery, London 2009 Urban Legends, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2009 Pop, Liberty, The Sims Reed Gallery at Liberty of London 2009 Works on Paper, Sims Reed Gallery, New York 2008 Ink, Sims Reed Gallery, Miami 2008 ICONS, 108 Fine Art, Harrogate, Yorkshire 2007 Pop!

In contrast to a contemporary art conversation weighed down by irony, strategy, and cool self - reflexivity, Artschwager's new exhibition at the Contemporary foregrounds the artist's sincere celebration of the experiential knowledge of objects and pictures and his patient passion for locating the body and soul contemporary art conversation weighed down by irony, strategy, and cool self - reflexivity, Artschwager's new exhibition at the Contemporary foregrounds the artist's sincere celebration of the experiential knowledge of objects and pictures and his patient passion for locating the body and soul Contemporary foregrounds the artist's sincere celebration of the experiential knowledge of objects and pictures and his patient passion for locating the body and soul of an image.

Monk's borrowing of iconic contemporary works of art has a Duchampian resonance, where serious questions about innovation and authorship are often staged with a sense of humor or irony.

Not without a touch of irony, the title alludes to the famous pop song by the British group Queen and underscores how very important performativity is in contemporary art.

Feldman's synthesis of an immediate serial form and her judiciously subdued palette manages to locate a contemporary abstraction that navigates beyond irony to a place of sincerity and sharp wit.

The Samuel Beckett - like «we can't go on / we'll go on» atmosphere of the work, perceived as an immobilizing irony, probably explains why Ethridge, born in 1969, is only now having his first solo museum exhibition in the United states, at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati (through March 12).

Contemporary artists, designers and average Joes have embraced the craft for its innuendo and irony, or simply because of its appeal.

Through the irony she makes use of, she is close to contemporary artists like John Currin, and German painters in the Leipzig school, but she suggests a re-think of the macho conventions of the predominant iconography thanks to her objects with powerful sexual connotations, which release a merry vulgarity.

The selected artworks represent a contemporary snapshot of incongruity, from dark irony to sugary one - liners, engaging thoughtful and physical aspects of humor and laughter.

Along with other contemporary, postmodern artists - Lara Schnitger, Shinique Smith and Sonia Gomes - they extend the use of fabric in a more assertive engagement with expansive space, and draw influences from the fashion of leather and lace (Schnitger); bold, psychedelic color (Smith, Barlow and Gomes); and pom - pom girl language (Barlow), with a touch of irony they inherit from Mike Kelley - who, of course, made fabric, traditionally used by women sculptors, famous.

He has maintained his interest in the relationship of words and imagery, of delighting in the absurd, and pointing out the irony in contemporary art theory for more than 35 years.

That exhibition theorized that she is part of a distinct contemporary moment by oscillating between modern and postmodern tendencies - expressing both humor and seriousness, enthusiasm and irony, play and discipline.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, whose artwork was laden with politics and irony, Zhu's work maintained a balance of traditional form while pushing the boundaries of artistic expression.

Currently on view at Eyebeam, New York is «The New Romantics,» an exhibition exploring the ways in which contemporary artists using digital media engage the body, representations of nature, poetic irony, and expressions of individuality as originally expressed in 19th Century Romanticism.