Sentences with phrase «modernist utopias»

In 2010, he had two solo shows: Bicho Geográfico (Geographic Beast), a site - specific installation at Acclamation Palace, an eighteenth century building, in which the artist gave a unique reading of Brazilian historical icons; and Transverso (Transverse), at Paulo Darzé Gallery, which gathered projects about the end of modernist utopias.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston will narrate the story of his projects involving astronomical cosmology and the infinite, while the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus will exhibit works that trace his obsession with writer Paul Scheerbart and the quest for modernist utopias.

Oiticica's works form a bridge between painting and sculpture; furthermore, they connect the Modernist utopia of the 1950s with the more fractured period of social and political tensions of the 1960s and»70s.

Not exact matches

McElheny's «models» of Fuller and Noguchi's proposal - that use the form and sculptural vocabulary of Noguchi's mostly unrealized proposals for modernist landscapes - offer up a seductive experience of an «aesthetic utopia» while implying the inhuman climate of conformity it would demand.

It featured a number of local talents, including Bjoern Meyer - Ebrecht, whose severe geometric wooden sculptures / book stands were crowned with vintage German modernist paperbacks that harkened back to a period when much of the world still believed in the power of art, architecture, and design to usher in utopias.

His documentary projects have often been exploring the collective memories of, and the hopes linked to modernist architecture, now that the utopias linked to them have faded away.

Thomas Ruff's shaky, saturated photographs of modernist buildings speaks to their unrealized promise of utopia.

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.

The starting point of this exhibition was the 1918 painting by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, titled White on White, which Sussman interprets as beginning a chain of failed utopias including modernist abstraction, the Soviet Union, and the space race.

Her paintings take on the serious ambition, scale and vocabularies of AbEx even as they inherit the modernist paradox of utopia - construction; speculative fictions are spun out of the rubble of conflicts past.

Lee Bul actively questions the narratives presented by modernist projects purportedly aimed at the freedom and liberation of humanity through the creation of utopia.

This artist has grown up in a place where there are full - scale utopias, their thinking has been profoundly influenced by Brazilian modernist architecture and even more, by its contrast with the visible at the foot of its buildings precariousness.

Bobrow's abstract and modernist grid paintings intersect Koolhaas's theories with art critic Rosalind Kraus's interpretations of grid; they are in agreement on the grid's effect of anti-humanist rigidity and as a myth, (New York, the utopia), or mythological symbol (a Greek cross).

This vision of Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, the architect's communal utopia, and one of the most important modernist buildings of all time, recalls the work of Cezanne, Mondrian and Richter, simultaneously blurring the distinction between dream and memory.

(Berlin, Germany) Part of his ongoing «Lembrança de Brasília» project, the installation focuses on modernist architectural utopias and the work of artist Athos Bulcão.