Sentences with phrase «minimalist floor sculptures»

A show at the Turner Contemporary in Margate by Andre, an American sculptor who is still alive and came to the fore with his minimalist floor sculptures made from bricks that caused a furore when they were bought by the Tate Modern, years ago.

On a journey exploring «communication», «architectonics», «utopia» and «the everyday», Whitechapel director Iwona Blazwick takes in Hélio Oiticica, Piet Mondrian, Carl Andre's minimalist floor sculpture and Andrea Zittel's witty furniture designs.

In 1972 the Tate Gallery bought Carl Andre's minimalist floor sculpture Equivalent VIII (1966), composed of 120 firebricks arranged two bricks high in a rectangle.

Not exact matches

He was struck by the contrast between the lavish marble sculpture of a youthful Newton, reclining regally beneath a gold - leafed globe, and Darwin's minimalist floor stone.

Like the minimalist artists that preceded him, Espírito Santo treats the floor as an integral element for his industrially produced sculptures, though he makes clear the distinction between his own work and minimalism.

Ranging from 8 to 72 inches high, the vertical box - like structures are placed on the gallery floor in an array that recalls graveyards as well as installations of minimalist sculpture.

Fred Sandback: Renowned for his Minimalist, conceptual sculptures, Fred Sandback's best - known works were made using colored acrylic yarn, like his «leaning» series, which used lengths of yarn, extended between walls and floors, to alter the perception of a space.

Apart from the minimalist and decorative idiosyncrasy of the circular neon light sculptures placed on both floors, the given conceptualised context emphasising on the «mystical transformation of the self», appears somewhat thin and incoherent.

Reeder also pokes fun at minimalist and conceptual artists with abstract, crumpled forms rendered in aluminum that dot the floor of the gallery — evocative of John Chamberlain or Frank Gehry's sculptures — entitled Bad Ideas.

In keeping with the duality of day and night, the exhibition sprawls across two floors of the museum, with exclusively black works such as the twelve - part mask series MOONRISE (2004), the minimalist X sculpture Lessness (2003) or one of Rondinone's psychologically haunting, ambient sound installations being shown on the basement level.

The fourteen - piece retrospective — ranging from 1988's Shallow Breath to two substantial sculptures realized this year, including a cast - iron floor piece — emphasizes the formal, «minimalist» containment of Whiteread's casts rather than their petrified histories and content.

His sculpture includes black Magic Sticks, which rise up from the floor like thin, broken columns — or perhaps Minimalist totems.

Forays into three dimensions, in slim curved or straight blocks, rest comfortably on the floor like Minimalist sculpture.

In the early 1970s, when sculpture was ruled by modernist monuments and Minimalist hulks, Joel Shapiro caused a sensation when he placed three - inch - high bronze or cast - iron domestic objects — a chair, a dollhouse, a coffin, a bird — on the floor of Paula Cooper's SoHo gallery.

It's opening exhibitions were: on the outside terrace «Cosmogonía doméstica» an outdoor installation by Mexican artist Damian Ortega, on the first floor: «James Lee Byars: 1/2 an Autobiography» co-curated by Peter Eleey and Magalí Arriola, showing the work of the late American minimalist James Lee Byars, and on the second floor: «Un Lugar en Dos Dimensiones: una selección de Colección Jumex + Fred Sandback» («A Place in Two Dimentions: A Selection from Colección Jumex + Fred Sandback»), curated by Patrick Charpenel showcasing a selection from the Jumex Collection, as well as 7 sculptures by American minimalist Fred Sandback.

Architectural elements and echoes of Minimalist sculpture have been carefully arranged on the floor, and there are four large abstract paintings on the walls.

A large Carl Andre floor sculpture and a couple of Donald Judd wall reliefs set the tone — minimalist, classical, austere.

In 2007, the artist designed the first Raf Simons store in Tokyo with bleached and splattered denim covering the walls from floor to ceiling and showcases echoing minimalist sculpture.

By the mid-70s, when Plimack Mangold began depicting rulers lying on a linoleum floor, she was offering a viable, non-literal alternative to Minimalist sculpture, Stella's hard - edged brand of Minimalism, and Mel Bochner's conceptual practice, in which measuring the width of a window within a gallery space was integral to the project.

The presentation of these clean - lined sculptures resting on the floor recalls that of Judd's later, renowned minimalist work.

The exhibition, organized by Dia curator Yasmil Raymond and former Dia director (now MOCA director) Philippe Vergne, is an occasion to consider the entire sweep of Andre's oeuvre, which, together with Donald Judd and Richard Serra's work, formed the hieratic core of the Minimalist movement — with Andre's key contribution being his breaking of the fourth wall, as it were, by encouraging viewers to interact with his famous floor - tile sculptures by walking on them.

First of all, I have a confession to make: I still haven't recovered from my first «encounter» with minimalist sculpture and, more precisely, with a Carl Andre floor piece!

Whether executed as simple strings of lightbulbs or glimmering floor sculptures, his forms echo the practice of Minimalist sculpture imbued with an underlying current of poetic intimacy and political content.

It is why Minimalist artists like Donald Judd asserted that a sculpture should always sit directly on the floor, so as not to take attention away from the work itself.

Tony Smith's «Die» or any number of other minimalist sculptures, including Carl Andre's floor plates, did exactly this 60 years ago.

The presentation will feature a group of the Minimalist artist's seminal floor - based sculptures from the 1960s and»70s.

JM With these floor sculptures, had you thought much about floor versus pedestal in minimalist sculpture?