Sentences with phrase «major installations such»

The works in the exhibition range from the mid-1970s to the present day, including many recent acquisitions and major installations such as A Minute Ago by Rachel Rose, and Odradek Wall by Liam Gillick.

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When the directors of the 1959 Pan American Games set about buying a track for installation at Soldier Field in Chicago two years ago they not only found that there were no major track builders, as such, in the country, but that the few good U.S. tracks in existence seemed to be the result of pure luck — the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, got its ancient but revered brick - dust track, the story goes, because a building was being demolished nearby and a Coliseum official suddenly had the bright idea that the crushed bricks would make a good running surface.

The calculation leaves out major costs, such as expanding and strengthening the power grid to handle far more complex flows of electricity from millions of solar installations, and creating breakthroughs in energy storage technology to lengthen solar power's impact beyond the daylight hours and to deal with sudden drops in output when clouds arrive.

However, the company offers funding to customers for various other reasons including home improvement projects, such as solar panel installation, or other major purchases.

Installations such as Field (1991, Arts Council Collection), which has been re-made by local communities across the world, and major public works such as Angel of the North (1998, Gateshead), Another Place (2005, Crosby Beach, near Liverpool), One & Other (2009, a Fourth Plinth commission for Trafalgar Square, London) and Exposure (2010, Lelystad, Holland) are amongst the most celebrated examples of contemporary British sculpture.

The works on display include Dean's 16 mm films of influential figures such as her major six - screen installation with Merce Cunningham in Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS... (six performances, six films)(2008), alongside her film of Claes Oldenburg in Manhattan Mouse Museum (2011) and her film diptych of Julie Mehretu GDGDA (2011), all previously unseen in the UK, as well as Mario Merz (2002), Michael Hamburger (2007), Cy Twombly in Edwin Parker (2011), and David Hockney in Portraits (2016).

Included alongside such signature artworks as Sigmar Polke's Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters (1991) are major acquisitions on view here for the first time, including Ericka Beckman's You The Better, Film Installation (1983/2015), Adrian Piper's The Mythic Being: Sol's Drawing # 1 — 5 (1974), and Renée Green's Bequest (1991), among other featured pieces...

Brice majored in painting at Michaelis UCT, her early work included constructed artworks combining found objects, or domestic materials such as linoleum, with steel to make wall artworks, installations and sculptural pieces.

Organized around nearly 30 major projects and installations, the volume ranges from Vo's early performative works such as Vo Rosasco Rasmussen (2003), in which he married and divorced acquaintances in order to add their surnames to his own, to his recent sculptural hybrids of classical and Christian statuary.

Often focusing on key moments of conflict or war, this major exhibition includes installations with lengthy, parable - like titles such as The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own (2009) connecting costume designs from Star Wars to uniforms designed by Saddam Hussein's son Uday (an avid George Lucas fan) for Fedayeen Saddam, an elite militia whose members dressed eerily similar to Darth Vader.

The BP walk - through also includes several major ArtFunded works, such as Jake and Dinos Chapman's satirical - ethnographic room of wooden carvings The Chapman Family Collection and Susan Hiller's installation Dedicated to the Unknown Artists, which features 14 panels and over 300 postcards.

The museum's major holdings are California - based, highlighting such movements as early and mid-century modernism, Bay Area Figuration, assemblage, California Light and Space, Pop Art, Minimalism, and installation art.

Highlights will include site - specific works mounted at major tourist attractions, such as Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping's installation at UNESCO World Heritage site Wat Pho.

From his early multichannel video installation diamond sea, 1997, to his more recent performance - based works, such as SONG I, 2012/2015, the exhibition unfolds around the major moving - image installations that articulate Aitken's central subject matters, from catastrophic environmental depredation to unprecedented technological mediation; self - contained, decentralized communication; and the incursion of commerce into every aspect of our social relationships.

Works on display include Dean's films of influential figures such as her major six - screen installation with Merce Cunningham in Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS... (2008) alongside her film of Claes Oldenburg in Manhattan Mouse Museum (2011) and her film diptych of Julie Mehretu GDGDA (2011), all previously unseen in the UK, as well as Mario Merz (2002), Michael Hamburger (2007), Cy Twombly in Edwin Parker (2011), and David Hockney in Portraits (2016).

With work already in major collections such as MOMA and the British Council Collection, her pieces are increasingly spreading into public places with site - specific installations in Battery Park, New York and Midtown Tokyo.

Now in its fourth year, this major arts festival celebrates extraordinary moments of fusion between different art forms such as performance, film, installation and music.

After the major survey exhibition held at Schaulager in 2007, the new show presents objects, installations, drawings, and replicas of objects from the domestic sphere such as washbasins, fireplaces, and drains, as well as fragmentary body parts bearing psychological, political, and religious connotations.

All the major American artists and works from the seventeenth century to today are included, such as epic history paintings by Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley; sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt, and Frederick Church; society portraits by John Singer Sargent; groundbreaking abstract expressionist and pop art by Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, and Andy Warhol; and challenging sculptural, installation, and video works from more recent years by Robert Gober, Fred Wilson, and Matthew Barney In architecture, dozens of different building types are illustrated and discussed, from the earliest colonial houses and churches to the most spectacular modernist and postmodernist houses, stations, museums, and iconic skyscrapers.

It was the sixth edition of the festival and the first under the artistic direction of Sarah McCrory; as one has come to expect from such biennial undertakings, exhibitions and installations were spread throughout the city, occupying spaces ranging from major public institutions to such quirky, out - of - the - way venues as an underground parking garage, a vendor's stall in a dilapidated shopping center, and a crumbling Edwardian community bathhouse.

Since it originated in the»70s, Dia has made a mission of sponsoring, acquiring and maintaining major works and installations by individual artists such as Flavin, Walter De Maria, Donald Judd (1928 - 1994), Sol LeWitt, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Robert Smithson (1938 - 1973) and Michael Heizer.

The artist's first US museum survey, curated by Omar Kholeif, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, features early works, a new commission and major installations, such as The invisible enemy should not exist (2007 - ongoing), a lifelong project by the artist to reproduce to scale items looted from the Iraqi National Museum, each made to scale and using recycled food supplies from Middle Eastern food stores in the United States.

Philippe Parreno: November is a major solo exhibition comprising some 15 mixed - media works ranging from such seminal films as The Boy from Mars to installations such as Speech Bubbles.

Some of these renovations are fairly un-intrusive (such as intercom and camera systems), but some accommodations require major renovations, such as the installation of chair lifts or elevators.