With this provocation, Fontcuberta manages to conceive a critical reflection on the authorship and production
methods of contemporary artworks whist pointing at the current trend of image over consumption.
Not exact matches
Group exhibitions include the Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania (2015), Heaven Is A Place Where Nothing Ever Happens, Pi
Artworks, London (2015), NYU, New York (2015), Museum
of Contemporary Cuts (2015), Production
Methods, Watermans Arts Centre, London (2015), the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2014), and the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna (2013).
Drawn from the holdings
of the Dakis Joannou Collection and installed in the beautiful spaces
of Geneva's Museum
of Art and History, False Friends proposes unexpected connections between
artworks and aesthetics,
methods and materials, offering a reading
of contemporary art as a magnetic field
of elective affinities and striking variations — a cacophonic concerto
of forms.
«Mark's innovative, multi-layered abstract paintings with paper, seen most recently in Pickett's Charge at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Stephen's extraordinary textile works on view at the BMA are evidence that these new modes
of contemporary painting can produce
artworks as compelling as those created using more traditional
methods.»
«So much
of what sets
contemporary artwork apart is due to the process or
method in which it's made.