This exhibition offers the chance to see major works by some of
the most pioneering artists to have emerged in the past 20 years.
Individually, these candid, informal talks offer insight into the careers and creative processes of some of
the most pioneering artists of our time, and collectively, they form a continuous dialogue on art over the last five decades.
Widely regarded as one of
the most pioneering artists of his generation, British artist Liam Gillick presents A Game of War Structure, 2011, a newly - designed version of The Game of War (Le Jeu de la Guerre) created originally by the French Situationist Guy Debord in 1977, while the internationally - celebrated Spanish artist Susana Solano's work, Carmen, 2011, is a large stainless steel sculptural work which encourages the viewer to experience the emotion that the form engenders as it transforms the surrounding environment.
German - born Eva Hesse (1936 — 1970) is one of
the most pioneering artists of the 20th century, known for her fearless use of new forms and ephemeral materials.
Lygia Clark (b. Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1920; d. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988) is one of
the most pioneering artists of the twentieth century.
Not exact matches
It would be the first manga released in full color in English by Tezuka, an important
pioneer of manga and animation in Japan and perhaps the
most prolific and acclaimed comics
artist of all time.
Barcelona's Joan Miró Foundation has managed to become a major point of reference in the world art scene and offers its visitors not only the greatest and
most complete single collection of Miró's work but also a
pioneering exhibition space named Espai 13, which stimulates research and experimentation among young
artists and offers impressive exhibitions of contemporary experimental and avant - garde
artists.
Leading the way with his «Scary» wrap is Ben Eine, one of the
most celebrated street
artists in the world and a
pioneer of graffiti letterforms.
As one of the
most influential
artists of the second part of the 20th century, Schneemann's
pioneering investigations into subjectivity, the social construction of the female body, and the cultural biases of art history have had significant influence on subsequent generations of
artists.
One of the
most influential
artists of the second part of the 20th century, her
pioneering investigations into subjectivity, the social construction of the female body, and the cultural biases of art history have had a significant influence on subsequent generations of
artists.
Studio International visited Tate Modern to speak to
pioneering artist Joan Jonas, long revered and
most often described as a performance
artist.
Although a
pioneer of video and performance art in the 1970s, Joan Jonas is only now getting her due as one of the
most forward - thinking
artists of the last half century.
Widely regarded as one the
most influential and significant
artists in post-war Poland and Paris, Alina Szapocznikow (1926 - 1973) has helped to deconstruct and re-imagine traditional sculpture, solidifying her
pioneering vision of the human body, and her distinctively radical hybrids of the organic and inorganic.
One of the 20th century's
most eminent designers, Louis Kahn was a Modernist
pioneer, as much
artist as architect.
However, beginning with Wassily Kandinsky's
pioneering work in pure abstraction and his theorizing about «The Spiritual in Art,» many of the
most spiritually ambitious visual
artists of the modern age have found that their ambitions are best served by the stripped down, elemental language of abstraction.
This Autumn we are delighted to present a solo exhibition of one of the
most influential and
pioneering artists of the Middle East: Parviz Tanavoli, the internationally recognized
artist and Iran's first significant modern sculptor.
WHILE
MOST OF HER ATTENTION AS A COLLECTOR was directed toward up - and - coming
artists, Cafritz almost offhandedly describes fascinating connections with 20th century
pioneers in African American art, dating from childhood to her years in Washington.
Joan Jonas is an American visual
artist and a
pioneer of video and performance art who is one of the
most important female
artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Towards the end of his career, Chimes would reflect that French symbolist thinker and «pataphysician Alfred Jarry,
pioneering conceptual
artist Marcel Duchamp, and modernist Irish author James Joyce, were the
most influential on his artistic output.
A
pioneer of the Op Art movement of the 1960s and one of the
most significant
artists working today, Bridget Riley's dedication to the interaction of form and color has led to a continued exploration of perception.
On her blog, Car Metaphors, Watching Analogies in the World of Computers,
pioneering Internet
artist and theorist Olia Lialina writes, «the
most popular analogy contemporary authors use to explain the computer's development and its role in our life is to cars.»
Among the
most significant media
artists in contemporary times, Hershman Leeson is broadly recognized for her
pioneering projects exploring the relationship between humans and technology, identity, surveillance, and the use of media as empowerment against censorship and repression.
Time magazine released its list of the 100
Most Influential People, grouping award winners in the categories of
Pioneers,
Artists, Leaders, Icons and Titans.
Time released its annual «Time 100» list, which highlights a group of the
most influential
artists, leaders, and
pioneers.
By presenting the public with such notions, Abramovic became arguably the
most important member of the generation of
pioneering performance
artists that includes the likes of Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Chris Burden.
For more than twenty years, Los Angeles — based
artist Laura Owens has
pioneered an innovative — and at times controversial — approach to painting that has made her one of the
most influential
artists of her generation.
Laurie Anderson is regarded as one of America's
most daring creative
pioneers and has distinguished herself as a visual
artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
This November, Sharjah Art Foundation presents a landmark retrospective of
pioneering conceptual
artist Hassan Sharif, marking the largest and
most comprehensive survey of the
artist's work to date.
a comprehensive survey of German post-war and contemporary art, featuring works by some of the
most important and
pioneering artists working in Germany during this period.
David Hockney: British Pop
pioneer David Hockney is regarded by many as the
most influential British
artist of the 20th century — and his legacy has continued into the 21st (last year, on the heels of his exhibition at San Francisco's de Young Museum, he was named one of the
most important
artists of 2013).
One of those native writers was Xeme who started his career in 2001 and is today considered to be the
most prominent Hong Kong based
artist, and a true Asian graffiti
pioneer.
Laura Owens For more than 20 years,
artist Laura Owens has
pioneered an innovative — and at times controversial — approach to painting that has made her one of the
most influential
artists of her generation.
«As a
pioneer in conceptual, social and performance practices she is one of the
most innovative and groundbreaking
artists of our time.»
He was a Los Angeles based
artist known strictly in the West Coast art circles as one of, or perhaps the
pioneer (unbeknownst to
most) of what some critics called «Hard Edge Abstraction.»
Lynn Hershman - Leeson has been called one of the world's
most influential media
artists and a
pioneer of feminist art.
Since the late 1970s, Danny Yung has established a reputation as one of Hong Kong's
most influential and
pioneering artists.
Published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition — the first in the United States in more than 35 years and the
most comprehensive ever mounted — this title showcases the
pioneering work of Italian
artist Alberto Burri (1915 - 95).
This show includes both the
artist's early and recent forays into his
pioneering use of industrial resin as a sculptural medium, providing an unprecedented opportunity to chart the development of the
most celebrated genre of Alexander's five - decade practice...
Nalini Malani is one of India's
most prominent contemporary
artists and a
pioneer of video art in South Asia.
Widely regarded today as one of the
pioneers of American Abstract Modernism, Avery's application of rich, swarthy colours in thick, broad brushstrokes has earned him a reputation as one of the
most influential
artists of the 20th century.
Uzo Egonu, described by Chambers as «perhaps the
most significant
pioneering African
artist to settle in London», came from Nigeria in the 1940s.
A
pioneer of infusing abstract painting with influences from popular culture and craft traditions, Mary Heilmann (b. 1940) is one of the
most important yet least recognized
artists in the United States today.
One of the
most influential
artists of the second part of the 20th century, her
pioneering investigations into subjectivity, the social construction of the female body, and the cultural biases of art history had a trailblazing influence on subsequent generations of
artists.
While one of the
most important
artists of the postwar period and a
pioneering figure within the field of abstract painting, Ryman's drawings, and their profound significance within his practice, have never been examined before in a focused exhibition.
Jonas (born 1936), a brilliant practitioner (and
pioneer) of video, performance, and installation art, is among the
most significant
artists of the past several decades.
One of the
pioneers of Conceptual Art and the
most prolific feminist
artists, whose practice unifies all the stated above, is definitely Adrian Piper.
Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC) is widely acknowledged as one of the
most influential
artist groups to emerge from Britain, also considered as a
pioneering film and video workshop collective initiative.
Willem de Kooning (b. 1904, Rotterdam, Netherlands; d. 1997, East Hampton, New York) is a
pioneering figure of Abstract Expressionism and one of the
most influential
artists of the twentieth century.
A major exhibition on the 40 - year career of the Pictures Generation
pioneer, whose work engages conceptualism and institutional critique Published in conjunction with the exhibition Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW, at The Museum of Modern Art, this volume charts the creative practice of one of the
most influential
artists working in the fields of picture - making and institutional critique.
On a Serious Note, People We Will Miss the
Most in 2014: Irascible conceptual contextualist Michael Asher (69), neon abstractionist Stephen Antonakos (86), serene realist Jack Beal (82), New York
artist Ellen Lanyon (86), San Francisco wire sculptor Ruth Asawa (87), neo-Pop
artist Ronnie Cutrone (65), Walter De Maria (77), political photographer Allan Sekula (62), Postmodernist photographer Sarah Charlesworth (66), former Guggenheim director Thomas M. Messer (93), conceptual art
pioneer Seth Siegelaub (71), Viennese Aktionist Otto Muehl (87),
artist Ellen Cantor (51), painter Sidney Goodman (77), sculptor Jene Highstein (70),
artist Richard Artschwager (89), East Vilage
artist Simon Cerigo (60), scholar and critic Thomas McEvilley (73)