Sentences with phrase «monumental architectural works»

The Inca Empire, which reached remarkable development culture, whose monumental architectural works endure over time, there is Machu Picchu «Wonder of the World».

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Ranging from text to installation, painting, sculpture, performance and sound, the selection presents some of Lisson's leading artists, of both the past and present — beginning with monumental works such as one of Dan Graham's large - scale glass - and - steel pavilions, entitled Two Vs Entrance - Way (2016), which reflects and refracts visitors and its Brutalist architectural surroundings.

Bringing together a minimalist structural rigour contrasted with unfolding fields of energy, Altmejd recognizes the primacy of the conceptual approach in shaping the cycles that run through his work: heads, constructed, architectural pieces, werewolves, bird men, giants, bodybuilders, guides, watchmen... The abrupt changes in scale (from the minuscule to the monumental), profusion of materials (crystals, mirrors, synthetic hair and fur, resin, wood, metal) and the various devices he uses to occupy the space (platforms, display cases, oversized cabinets) are all strategies that position the artist as a creator of all possibilities.

In her sixth solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong, Ursula von Rydingsvard will present three new monumental works that exemplify the artist as a sculptor in full command of her craft, further developing the vocabulary that she has so thoroughly honed: abstract, architectural forms composed of accretions of wood.

Borrowing its title from Anni Albers's 1957 essay The Pliable Plane Antunes occupied the monumental exhibition space with a series of large scale works, two sculptures inspired by Anni Albers's fabric designs, others informed with Lina Bo Bardi's architectural work.

Included were statuary, monumental works in sandstone, and sculpted architectural elements.

The works themselves index architectural barriers between outside and inside — a monumental new series of aluminum - cast windows, a large - scale brick - wall painting and a new series of concrete sculptures cast from the corners of urban buildings — collectively comprising the space of an inner world.

The first internationally touring survey show dedicated to the work of one of Japan's leading and most innovative contemporary artists, this exhibition will present works from Ohtake's multifaceted practice which ranges from painting to assemblage, collage, drawing, monumental sculpture, architectural environment and sound — much of which has never been seen in the US.

First of all is the «subversive design» of Ettore Sottsass for the Studio Memphis followed by the graphic design of Peter Saville and Neville Brody; architectural models and rendering, together with preparatory drawings by Philip Johnson for the AT&T skyscraper (1978); works by Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman and Ai Weiwei; the 1986 stainless steel bust of Louis XIV by Jeff Koons; the reconstruction of the monumental work by Jenny Holzer «Protect Me From What I Want» (1983 - 85); performances and costumes, including the «Big Suit» worn by David Byrne for the documentary «Stop Making Sense» of 1984; extracts from films such as» The Last of England» by Derek Jarman (1987); music videos of Laurie Anderson, Grace Jones and New Order; and also surprising objects such as the dinner services designed by architects like Zaha Hadid, Frank O. Gehry and Arata Isozaki.

Her work references both the transformative effects of photography as well as the sculptural relationship of objects to the body, alternating between an association with objects that are intimate, wearable or ornamental and an idea of scale that verges on the architectural or monumental.

These two works, with nearly 50 years in between them, are monumental architectural structures in which Van Snick expresses his interest in systematic methodologies and a minimalist visual language.

These works are joined by five new monumental sculptures of the body (as interpreted through interlocking steel beams) and two new Blockworks that translate the body into a network of rectangles to construct seemingly architectural realms.

The foundation is located in Paris and in Périgny - sur - Yerres, where the Closerie Falbala, a monumental sculpture and the artist's major work (designated a historic monument in 1998), is situated near the former sculpture studios that house the artist's architectural models.

In other works, however, the themes feel like an abstract frame forced upon individual positions, for instance, in Monika Sosnowska's Façade (2013), a hanging steel sculpture of a crumpled architectural grid, or Oscar Murillo's unnecessary monumental installation Condiciones aún por titular (Conditions yet not known), 2014 — 17, taking over the courtyard of Bait Al Serkal with excavations, sawn canvases, paintings and steel structures inspired by morgue tables, picturing the process of a personal archaeology.