[2] Making magnified depictions of
objects imbued a sense of awe and emotional intensity.
Known for her anthropomorphic weather balloon sculptures in her four - decades - long practice, she deeply explores the architecture of the body, reducing the feminine body to its most elemental features and manipulating them into minimal
objects imbued with acidic humor and absurd hypersexuality.
Salcedo employs objects from the past,
objects imbued with an important sense of history and, through these contemporary memory sculptures, illustrates the flow of time.
In her work Cornaro uses found
objects imbued with symbolic potential or...
These individually lit compartments function as reliquaries for
objects imbued with the history of Huguenot House's reconstruction, making the piece a secular symbol of renewal.
The ordinariness of
the objects imbues the work with a poetic tension - things are familiar but, isolated from their original function, somehow wrong.
His deft use of found
objects imbues his work with a visceral relationship to history and the real world, allowing him to challenge viewers» perceptions of familiar objects and experiences.
The title of the exhibition, Idée Fixe, is a synonym for «fetish,»
an object imbued with special power.
Not exact matches
Moreover, Clara could not bear the presence of blessed
objects and seemed
imbued with extraordinary strength and ferocity.
If estimating the present value of innate
objects is difficult, how much more uncertain it must be to ascribe such a value to an entity
imbued with life!
As Hunt himself pointed out, nearly every
object in the picture is
imbued with a symbolic significance.
If virtual particles have gravitational charges, then space - time itself is
imbued with a small charge that could be causing
objects in the universe to speed away from each other.
But pretty soon he is detailing its failings: we are overconfident in our mind - reading abilities; we use our own mind as a template for others, yet confabulate wildly to make sense of ourselves; by stereotyping people we overemphasise differences; we are woefully poor at reading body language; and we constantly misapply our mind - reading talents, dehumanising others while
imbuing inanimate
objects with human traits.
Polynesians have a word for the power with which we
imbue inanimate
objects.
All of the fuss is over the Mad Titan searching for the powerful cosmic
objects known as the Infinity Stones to complete his golden gauntlet and
imbue himself with unbelievable power.
Traditionally, the tika marks the dog as both a devotee of the righteous path and as an
object of devotion,
imbuing the dog with an air of sacredness and acting as a blessing to those who encounter the dog during Kukur Tihar.
Enemies in Alan Wake are covered in «darkness» that
imbues the world around Wake and causes people and
objects to attack the writer.
I think that
imbuing objects with value is always a worthwhile enterprise.
I became interested in the «anima» in «animation»... what makes dead matter come alive, how do both the child and the artist
imbue life into seemingly inanimate
objects?
«In her most recent work, Genzken confronts one of the prime calamities of sculpture in the present: a terror that emerges from both the universal equivalence and exchangeability of all
objects and materials and the simultaneous impossibility of
imbuing any transgressive definition of sculpture with priorities or criteria of selection, of choice, let alone judgment (be it artisanal skills, choice of
objects or materials, or the analytical intelligence to identify the specific structure of a contextualized readymade).
The artists as «
object makers»
imbue these things with a life of their own liberating them from the confines of the specifically definable.
Notions of negation — which he alternately refers to as «dematerialization,» «anti-concept,» and «non-sculpture» — structure his approach, by which he transforms ordinary
objects,
imbuing them with multiple meanings and affects.
I was creating
objects that could turn against me, contaminate, spread my activity through the gallery - museum system,
imbuing all with possible legal repercussions.»
The work, which references and contradicts Richard Serra's One Ton Prop (House of Cards), questions the status of
objects, in which wilting throne structures and suspended chandeliers are reduced to outlines, taking on a vocabulary of demise and bankruptcy while
imbuing forms of resilience and strength.
By continually returning to these motifs, DeFeo
imbues seemingly ordinary
objects with a heightened sense of ritualized creative process.
Notions of negation — which the artist calls dematerialization, non-sculpture, and anti-concept — are central to Seung - taek Lee's approach, and indicate the process by which ordinary or mundane
objects are transformed to be
imbued with metaphysical meaning.
By utilizing age - old techniques Beck
imbues classical
objects of veneration with a modern twist, creating a world unquestionably his own.
It is a literary experiment in which an unnamed narrator gives advice to a young man suffering from melancholy, taking him on an imaginary tour through the Louvre where his readings of Chardin
imbue the everyday world with new meaning, and his ruminations on Rembrandt take his melancholic pupil beyond the realm of mere
objects.
Objects, already
imbued with cultural and artistic metaphor, are combined into narrative sculptures that commemorate places, people, and events.
He strives to
imbue his paintings with two directives: Create compositions with meaningful intersections of
objects within space and capture the essence of what it's like to be in the moment when no one is watching.
Since the 1980s, Hawkinson has used common household materials, handcrafted and found
objects, and mechanical components to shift familiar subject matter askew, creating visual conundrums
imbued with deeper meaning.
She has a talent for
imbuing the most mundane of
objects with a definitive human vitality: a coffee cup that might suddenly push itself off the edge of a table, or the arm - like handles of a swimming pool ladder that might wrap themselves around one's neck.
The artist dedicated his later studio practice to the consideration of simple and ordinary
objects, often in sparsely composed table studies,
imbuing his subjects with symbolic content and an unexpected complexity.
Sarah Conaway (b. 1972 York, Pennsylvania) makes seemingly straightforward photographs that invite us to think magically,
imbuing mundane
objects with mystery and...
Working in film and performance, Willis Thompson investigates the treatment of minority communities and the way
objects, places and people can be
imbued with violence.
Across a decades - long career, his work explored what he called «the drama of
objects,»
imbuing forms with animism and rhythm.
Despite their status as
objects of everyday use, these perches are
imbued with an aura of ritual.
The artist focuses on the personal memories we each bring to our experiences in both his performances and his sculptures, embedding them with
objects and sounds
imbued with personal experience.
He
imbues new meaning into
objects that resonate with a history of modernism, while reaching back across continents and centuries to cultural roots in Africa.
For New York - based artist Amie Siegel's first solo show in London, the South London Gallery (SLG) presented recent works Quarry, 2015 and Fetish, 2016 which explore the mechanisms through which
objects become
imbued with meaning.
Matthew Darbyshire's museum - like display of household
objects, including Ikea shelves, souvenir Murano vases, Cristal d'Arque champagne flutes and acrylic water pipes, for example, questions the extent to which people
imbue certain
objects with aspirational codes.
We've discussed how your
objects denounce their cheap readymade origins and become
imbued with personality and spirituality.
Never laboured,
objects and figures are spread across the picture plane so that they are
imbued with an almost weightless quality.
The resulting series of works is shrouded in mystery, breathing life into
objects that have not been displayed to the public for many years and
imbuing them with a new and contemporary purpose.
The result is a work of art composed of multiple
objects that were once singular and utilitarian and are now presented as one work that is
imbued with entirely different aesthetic and conceptual qualities.
von Rydingsvard's figures often allude to everyday
objects found in the home, such as a bowl, bonnet, or staircase — simple, universal pieces that are deeply
imbued with humanity.
Using
objects of intrinsic elegance or utility along with things found from nature, Hartley's works are
imbued with rich, deep colors and translucent light.
My current work has been focused on creating
objects that
imbue a sense of captured time and nostalgia through their design, aesthetics and contents.
McDonald spent six months in residence at RAIR sifting through the personal items and felt a deep empathy for the memories
imbued in these familiar domestic
objects.
The fastidious construction of the shelf
imbues the seemingly random found
objects it supports with an aura of secrecy and elusiveness, stripping them of their original functionality.