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In the Dutch Pavilion, this argument is taken up more directly in two films by Wendelien van Oldenborgh that use modernist architecture as a framework to think about inclusivity and erasure in postwar, postcolonial Dutch society (Prologue: Squat / Anti-Squat, 2016, and Cinema Olanda, 2017).

Opie's narrative is specific to Los Angeles as it focuses on L.A.'s rich history of modernist architecture as well as the recent onslaught of political and natural disasters, such as fires and floods that have dominated the news.

A founding member of Anarchitecture, a group that criticized the excesses of architecture, Matta - Clark's work frequently critiqued the historical destruction caused by modernist architecture as an outgrowth of capitalism.

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Remaining fascinated by definitions of postmodernism and conservatism, and always returning to the notions of sentiment and «anti-ideology,» to view all the brutal ugliness and inhumanity of what might legitimately be classified as «modernist» (architecture and literature first....

As perfect as indies get, this intimate drama — set in an Indiana town known for its striking modernist architecture — showcased the year's most exquisite flirtation, between two intellectuals (John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson) stuck at life's turning pointAs perfect as indies get, this intimate drama — set in an Indiana town known for its striking modernist architecture — showcased the year's most exquisite flirtation, between two intellectuals (John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson) stuck at life's turning pointas indies get, this intimate drama — set in an Indiana town known for its striking modernist architecture — showcased the year's most exquisite flirtation, between two intellectuals (John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson) stuck at life's turning points.

So he does exactly that, using countless features taking place (or shot) in Los Angeles to show the development of the city, as well as how decisions on and off the screen impact each other (one of my favourite parts: when Andersen explains how the city's modernist architecture was devalued by having the movies always associate the look with antagonists).

The types of school buildings that can be described as «historic» are similarly wide - ranging — from several hundred year old buildings that remain in use as schools to modernist architecture built in the post war period.

Tourists interested in the rich cultural heritage of Olot, with excellent examples of Modernist and Renaissance architecture, as well as guests wishing to spend their holidays enjoying nature, away from the hustle and bustle of the cities, will find that this 3 - star hotel is the ideal place to stay.

Conveniently situated within Barcelona's modern Eixample district, along the bustling Passieg de Gracia, Casa Mila or La Pedrera as it is also known showcases some truly exceptional modernist architecture.

Cameras at the ready, people, as City 17 boasts some of the finest Eastern European architecture, with pre-WWII neo-classicist structures sitting in perfect harmony alongside Soviet modernist complexes, and the enormous, towering Citadel stretching up into the clouds.

Having engaged subjects as diverse as the civil rights movement, southern rock music and modernist architecture, my work reproduces familiar visual signs, arranging them into new conceptually layered pieces.

The landscape of southern California serves as a catalyst for fantasy, from its modernist architecture to its otherworldly rock formations, trees, coastline, mountains, and hills from which twinkling towns and cities can be viewed in the valleys below.

Cited as the first truly Modernist building of the Americas, this large complex features contributions by a variety of Brazilian artists, architects, and designers (including the influential landscape architect Roberto Brule Marx, currently the subject of a solo show at the Jewish Museum in New York) all organized by the famed, controversial godfather of 20th - century architecture himself, Le Corbusier.

[66] Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building in New York (1956 — 1958) is often regarded as the pinnacle of this modernist high - rise architecture.

While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.

This year's shortlist consists of Knut Henriksen, whose dominating sculptures reference modernist architecture, utopian ideals and pragmatic solutions with dazzling visceral results; Vibeke Tandberg who has filled a room with among other things, 119 plaster casts of freezer doors as a comment on recycling; Lars Lauman who has crammed a room with ephemera from an era that seemed chemically obsessed, including E.T dolls and archival science material on acid attacks; while Mattias Härenstam has set up a pulley that drags a birch tree branch around the exterior of a room, blocking people from entering or exiting the doorway.

As the museum sets its sights on showcasing its expanding outdoor space, Portals will serve as a natural transition from the museum's modernist architecture to the quietude of the foresAs the museum sets its sights on showcasing its expanding outdoor space, Portals will serve as a natural transition from the museum's modernist architecture to the quietude of the foresas a natural transition from the museum's modernist architecture to the quietude of the forest.

Drawing on modernist architecture, Israeli Kibbutzim, the plays of Bertolt Brecht, and Constructivist set design as influences, Meromi will create a series of sculptural environments that are continually altered through off - hours «rehearsals» that will take place in the gallery.

By extension of Modernist architectural history — specifically that of the eras of Russian Constructivist and Brutalist architecture and their influence on American urbanism — Andrade conjures the legacy of the town square as a place of hybrid activity involving intellectual dialogue, contemplation, political ideology, commerce, protest, civic duty, celebration, violence and more.

«Italian Futurism, 1909 - 1944: Reconstructing the Universe» aims to examine paintings and sculptures that have long been recognized as modernist masterpieces alongside works of architecture, design and pure public spectacle that fueled the dream of a total Futurist art.

These three artists embed forms associated with modernist architecture and design as well as Minimalism into their sculptures and works on paper.

For this solo exhibition in PC - G's Hunt - Cavanagh Gallery, San Diego artist Robert Andrade presents a site - specific installation of new work that builds upon his evolving language of sculpture, public space, Modernist architecture and construction materials as fine art supplies.

The show riffs on Modernist architecture the legacies of artists such as Anni Albers and and Ruth Asawa.

A combination of acrylic and spray paint canvases, dyed interactive soft sculptures, and a concrete block plant installation, the show's multi-medium elements serve as a whimsical juxtaposition to the modernist architecture of the space.

The Irish artist imagines a speculative live / work environment drawing influence from Modernist architecture and science fiction, both of which imagine the future as a utopian space of fantastic social and political potential.

As such, the new show displays photographic, painterly and sculptural elements, which continue to document the battle between nature and artificial developments,, questioning the way modernist architecture attempts to situate itself within the landscape.

Reminiscent of office cubicles, barriers, waiting areas and processes of renovation, they operate as semi-autonomous abstractions and reiterate Gillick's interest in the legacy of «applied modernism», the two way movement between utilitarian design and modernist art and architecture.

In 1989 Gillick mounted his first solo exhibition, 84 Diagrams, at Karsten Schubert in London, presenting a series of drawings for buildings in the late Modernist style that were deliberately faulty or unworkable as architecture.

Robert Venturi published Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1966 as a critique of modernist architecture, primarily as it had developed since World War II, and particularly during the 1950s.

Describing themselves as an agency that enjoys a special bond with architecture, typography and paper — they have created many other paper cut - outs inspired by modernist architecture, including a set that celebrates London's own Brutalist estates.

Offering a fresh reappraisal of modernist architecture, the survey can alternatively be seen in both the iconic structures of the modernist canon and in the portfolios of some of the best contemporary architects of this century, including Arne Jacobsen, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, and Walter Gropius, and contemporary architects such as Snøhetta, David Adjaye, Sou Fujimoto, Tadao Ando, and John Pawson.

Her breakthrough works were readable as vividly colored tributes to the extreme geometries of modernist architecture.

Broadly referencing modernist and brutalist architecture and the UK housing systems such as in Camden Council, where the gallery is located but also where the artist lives and works.

As a new blockbuster exhibition of modernist art, architecture and design opens at the V&A, we present a G2 special celebrating the Modern movement.

Based on the historical work of Brazilian artist Athos Bulcão, the work reflects upon an important artist in Brazil's recent history and discusses modernist architecture and its utopias as a means of transforming Brazilian society.

Inspired by histories of modernist abstraction, architecture and the perceptual and organizational structures of nature, Mangrané's work encompasses drawing, sculpture, light, and film elaborated as part of poetically scripted environmental spaces.

The Park Avenue Cubists continued to evolve a European - based abstraction, and modernists such as Stuart Davis and Charles Demuth applied a precise, geometric vocabulary to American architecture and advertising.

She reconstructs the grand narrative, as it was represented in Modernist architecture, and manipulates it as she wants.

She states: «against the backdrop of the modernist architecture of the city I see the voice as a means to infiltrate spaces, like a ghost in the machine, and return experience to a human scale.»

Following on from her commission for Frieze Film, Some Ends of Things (2011), depicting an egg - person wandering around the hallways of a modernist building, Hopf's new work will also take the architecture of a modernist home as its context.

In Ingram's work, which includes a large - scale architectural installation, photographs, prints and paintings, construction materials themselves are used as tools for humorous investigations of modernist art and architecture.

b. 1969 Haarlem, Netherlands Born 1969, Haarlem, Netherlands / Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, and Amsterdam, Netherlands Lara Schnitger applies domestic arts, such as sewing and quilting, to a brand of sculpture - making that merges design with modernist architecture.

More than just as a reference point but rather, because he was the most important American architecture photographer of the post-war period and his images of modernist houses built by Richard Neutra, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry are artistic icons in their own right, more than 50 photographs by Julius Shulman are included in the exhibition.

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.

New York City's Museum of Modern Art, located in Midtown Manhattan and established in 1929, is widely considered as the world's most influential modern and contemporary art museum, crucially important in developing and collecting modernist artworks, including painting, sculpture, photography, prints, books, films, architecture and design.

Konrad is interested in probing the social, economic, historical and political parameters that inform and underlie architecture and urbanism, as much as she in interested in exploring the physical presence of architecture and building types, particularly those of modernist genealogy.

Björn Meyer - Ebrecht's painting's use modernist architecture and design as a starting point, using basic geometric form as an alphabet with which to render these utilitarian and utopian forms into idiosyncratic compositions.

The rest of his career was devoted to promoting the Modernist style of architecture in the U.S., resulting in rigorously modern buildings such as the Farnsworth House and the Seagram Building, designed with Philip Johnson.