Sentences with phrase «modern utopias»

She is also the curator of the current exhibition at Main Line Art Center called Modern Utopias, which is the featured exhibition of Panorama 2015: Image - Based Art In the 21st Century, the first annual Philadelphia - area celebration of the photographic image.

Curated by Main Line Art Center Executive Director Amie Potsic, Modern Utopias presents compelling visions of modern existence, human potential, and virtual realities through works by Marjan Moghadden (New York, NY), Noah Addis (Columbus, OH), and Nicole Patrice Dul (Philadelphia, PA).

The focal point of Panorama is Modern Utopias, the featured exhibition on view in Main Line Art Center's galleries September 12 through November 4.

Martin Boyce Evocative and haunting sculptures by the Turner prize winner that revisit modern utopias.

Originally studying English Literature at Cambridge University, Perret works against an extensive backdrop of art historical and literary inspirations and drawing from this vast catalogue of influences, Perret addresses sustained narratives which revolve around ideas of feminism, modern utopias and the consumption of art and literature.

Modern Utopias is published to accompany a long - term touring exhibition that tells the story of the utopias of the 20th and 21st centuries through great works from the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

The modern utopias of liberalism and of Marxism have asserted the possibility of the order which overcomes evil emerging either through gradual development or catastrophic struggles in history.

NB: I hope the exhibition in London entails a postmodern approach to the idea of space in a good sense; it still allows the modern utopia of perfection or self - improvement, but it is also unafraid of the inherent problems and their subjective reflections.

The participating artists address themes such as memory and self - reflection, social and political issues such as discrimination, racism, the failure of the modern utopia, urban violence and exploitation of the Amazon rain forest.

From Lucy with love invites visitors to a limbo between modern utopia and a surrealist dream in the form of a monumental sculpture.

Not exact matches

A very different relationship to the concept of utopia took shape in the modern age.

The Truman Show was a dystopian look at a fraudulent - utopia, a modern Greek tragedy about a baby not yet having left the womb, already condemned to the fate of an entire lifetime under the glare of thousands of cameras» 24 - hour, 7 - day - a-week siege.

The Dinosaur Hall is part of a seven - year, $ 135 million remodeling plan to transform the Los Angeles museum into a modern scientific utopia.

And Viviana Olen and Matt Harkins have created a pop - culture utopia called THNK1994 — an apartment sized museum focusing on our modern pop culture faves.

Denise Markonish is the curator at MASS MoCA where her exhibitions include: Jim Shaw; Entertaining Doubts, Lee Boroson: Plastic Fantastic, Teresita Fernandez: As Above So Below, Mark Dion: The Octagon Room, Tom Philips and Johnny Carrera: Life's Work; Oh, Canada the largest survey of contemporary Canadian art (accompanied by a 400 - page catalogue co-published with MIT Press); Sanford Biggers: The Cartographer's Conundrum, Michael Oatman: all utopias fell; Stephen Vitiello: All Those Vanished Engines, Nari Ward: Sub Mirage Lignum (catalogue); Petah Coyne: Everything That Rises Must Converge (catalogue: Yale University Press), Inigo Manglano - Ovalle: Gravity is a force to be reckoned with (catalogue: D.A.P); These Days: Elegies for Modern Times and Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape (catalogue: MIT Press.

Reticula, part of Dario Escobar's «ultramoderno» project commenting on the failed utopia of modernism in Central America, 50 pool triangles made in Taiwan becomes a relief, and its composition follows a modern grid.

«Azania» is a reference to both classical Greek and Roman accounts of southern Africa and modern activists» dreams of the pre - and post-apartheid black African utopia.

Samuel Goff, «Edenia: a lost Yiddish utopia for Ukraine and its afterlife in modern - day Kharkiv», The Calvert Journal, June 30, 2017

Widely copied in Europe and America in the 20s, this iconic image of a machine - age utopia celebrated the power of industrial production in the modern age.

Through my images I was inspired to create striking juxtapositions between the ruins of modern civilization and a futuristic ecological utopia.

Smithson in his writings talked about entropy, the clash of nature with modern society, and lost utopias.

He metaphorically addresses the deconstruction of an era, questioning the modern paradigm and utopias that are connected to it.»

Earthly Delight and Back to the Garden twist iconic imagery associated with the Garden of Eden creation myth, commenting on our uneasy modern relationship with both technology and utopias.

So - called time management consultants try to sell us a utopia where we go home at 5 PM sharp with everything on our to - do list crossed off, but the realities of the modern workday make this an impossible (and maybe even an undesirable?)

Plus, you're your own worst enemy when it comes to your financial goals, your pet ownership is unethical, Slack is a crime - free utopia, our modern banking security system is the worst, and we're all slowly becoming emotionless robots in our digital existential crisis.