Sentences with phrase «of fictional artists»

Locked Room Scenario was an immersive group show of fictional artists in a Hoxton warehouse, which invited the viewer to adopt a detective's mentality.

His project for the Whitney Biennial involves creating the fictional persona of an Ivy League - educated black female artist, «Donelle Woolford,» and presenting performances and art objects conceptualized by Scanlan as the creative products of this fictional artist who is played by a variety of actors.

Also in 2004, an artist collective was formed that operates under the name of the fictional artist Reena Spaulings, creating collective paintings that are both reflective of the system and self - deprecating.

Indeed, there is a willful subterfuge running through much of his art, as exemplified in works that address the political economy of site - specific labor (Massachusetts Wedding Bed); or co-scripting the life and work of a fictional artist in collaboration with professional actors (Donelle Woolford); or in the design and manufacture of portable architecture that can inhabit the body of a host museum (Thingsthtfall Pavilion).

Indeed, there is a willful subterfuge running through much of his work, as exemplified in works that address the political economy of site - specific labor (Massachusetts Wedding Bed); or co-scripting the life and work of a fictional artist in collaboration with professional actors (Donelle Woolford); or in the design and manufacture of portable architecture that can inhabit the body of a host museum (Thingstahtfall Pavilion).

The other talking point stands were Seventeen's sit - on - a-snake virtual reality show by Jon Rafman, and Hauser & Wirth's presentation of their artists» work as that of a fictional artist in a mock - up studio (were they trying to transcend the grubby fiscal reality of the fair?).

Lives of Artists is a curatorial research project that aims to initiate a critical discourse and presentation of the fictional artist as an artistic practice and production.

Not exact matches

An example would be the fictional sermon on hell that James Joyce recounts in his Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man This kind of preaching fosters an image of God as an unloving and cruel tyrant, and in some cases leads to a complete denial of hell or even to atheism.

It won two jury awards at Sundance, and arguably an appreciation for Nick Cave the artist would influence any viewer's perception of 20,000 Days On Earth, but what really affects ones viewing of this film is entering into it and viewing it as a documentary disguised as a fictional film, or a fictional film disguised as a documentary.

But in a backhanded way, this considered, half - fictional approach perfectly serves an artist who has always been in the process of making and remaking his own mercurial image.

A24 has unveiled the first trailer for the film The Disaster Artist, a fictional account of the making of the «best worst movie ever made» - The Room, as directed by Tommy Wiseau.

Black Panther is a film set in the futuristic fictional African country of Wakanda, so Lamar fittingly also sought out South African artists Babes Wodumo, Sjava, Saudi, and Yugen Blakrok.

The movie then gives way to the fictional world of the film proper as Levy, playing an artist named David, meets and falls in love with a young Hungarian woman named Enci, enacted by Bordán.

The Lacuna BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER The fictional story of Harrison William Shepherd, beginning with his childhood through adulthood, when he begins cooking for the artists Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo.

Trotsky in Mexico Kingsolver's fictional protagonist, Harrison Shepherd, spends much of his life brushing up against the lives of real people, including the Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera who played host to Leon Trotsky in the 1930s.

The work found (which is purely fictional) is purported to be the artist's copy of an actual oil by Annibale Carracci, entitled Venus with a Satyr and Cupids.

A fictional account of the life of young artist Frida Kahlo that celebrates her connection to the animals she loved and painted.

I have some familiarity with the artists who populate this fictional tale and I think he did a great job of bringing them to life as characters in this amusing mystery.

Siri Hustvedt's The Blazing World seeks to explore the mystery surrounding the last years of one fictional spurned artist, Harriet Burden.

Kojima is much more of an artist, able to mix real world concerns into fictional worlds to create a sort of modern day opera played out through combat that is about much more than the individuals involved.

It's hardly unique in imitating artists from Europe and Japan, but it goes the extra mile by inventing a fictional language of semi-Cyrillic letters and terse half - French rolling vowels.

This week is a tribute to Diddy Kong Racing via a ton of artists from Materia Collective, Shane Mesa pays tribute to the Mother series in the fictional Mother 4 Soundtraaaack!

Writers and artists from the teams behind Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, Halo and Deus Ex discuss the process of creating a compelling fictional universe, while CCP discusses how VR and console titles will expand the world of Eve.

The colourful series of 12 cards, entitled the «Moji Itten» project, is a clever homage to the twelve - part colour circle theorist and artist, Johannes Itten and features miniature emoticons set on a solid, saturated square, positioned just above the matching system's unique index number and a fictional name.

According to the museum, her paintings «embrace many of the conventions of historical European portraiture, but expand on that tradition by engaging fictional subjects who often serve as protagonists of the artist's short stories as well.»

The subtitles narrate a fictional letter Garcia Torres wrote to the late landscape painter Gerardo Murillo (Dr. Atl), posing questions to the artist about the Guggenheim Museum's potential plans to move a new branch of the museum to this site, the subject of numerous of the painter's canvases.

The artist talks about his creation of a fictional museum, his current lecture tour, Fake News + Sup...

Grounded in Shaw's interest in the influence of religious movements on American society, The Donner Party is the centerpiece of a series based on «Oism», a fictional cult invented by the artist.

In 2015 Kagami presented an «intimate portrait session» performance as part of the Live section of Frieze London; the performance drew an audience of more than 2000 visitors over the course of four days and involved the artist creating fictional portraits of each visitor's penis or breasts.

With the help of silent collaborators on the editorial board of Southern California's seminal performance art magazine High Performance, the Artist Actualization Services created multiple reports of their fictional actions, successfully attributed to other artists.

In the case of Disco Angola the artist assumes the persona of a fictional photo - journalist living in the mid 1970s and documenting two very different worlds: the nascent disco underground in New York and the civil war in newly independent Angola.

Drawing upon his recent explorations in narrative structure which combine documentary footage, personal account and fictional story construction, Jugdeo will use the Artist Lab Residency as a starting point towards the development of a scripted web series, made in collaboration with local performers.

Elmgreen and Dragset — The Making of a Fair The artists present a visual and email document of their fictional art fair at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing

For her exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Castillo Deball presents the most recent iteration of the project «To - Day,» which combines historical research about a specific site and a physical form that contains this research, which the artist calls a «fictional character.»

Fictional representations of art and biographical films about dead artists are common in mainstream media, despite the lack of concern with living visual artists and their projects.

Yiadom - Boakye's lush oil paintings embrace many of the conventions of historical European portraiture, but expand on that tradition by engaging fictional subjects who often serve as protagonists of the artist's short stories as well.

Highlights from Michelle Grabner's crowd - pleasing selection include Dawoud Bey's presidential portrait photography (Barack Obama, 2008), Karl Haendel's Theme Time Drawings, pencil drawings of various subjects arranged in shaped frames across a massive section of wall, and works by Donelle Woolford, the fictional young black female artist «created» by Joe Scanlan and played by various actors whose Joke Painting (detumescence)(2013) investigates the notion of authenticity.

The exhibition presents 34 artists and 84 writers from the past 50 years, and together they create a fictional and subjective view of Los Angeles.

Dealer, maker, fictional protagonist... this series of paintings and sculptures at Campoli Presti by artist avatar Reena Spaulings will leave you guessing about the nature of display, branding and the cult of the artist.

The exhibition is complemented by continuous screenings of Border (2000), a Kafkaesque, «fictional» documentary shot on the highly charged Israel / Lebanon border that muses on the ultimate validity of such an arbitrary designation, while attempting to locate and cross it; and The Making of Makom (2008), a video charting the construction of a sculptural project where the artist gathers and annotates, as in an archaeological dig, 60 tons of building stones from the remains of Palestinian and Israeli houses to build a deceptively simple structure.

The artists exploit the photographic medium to create the illusion that these are images of real houses, real remains, but subtle clues — scale conflicts, odd or impossible viewpoints, the miniature foundation outside — point to their fictional origin.

This project explores Los Angeles» legacy as a site of artistic transformation and second chances, through the poetic investigation and fictional re-construction of the Artist Actualization Services, a short - lived and obscure performance art group active in Los Angeles from 1979 - 1980.

The artist addresses the scope of human solutions to human problems, while sometimes creating fictional narratives that touch upon spiritual considerations.

«Long Stories», the Swiss artist's latest exhibition at Jan Kaps, comes accompanied by a fictional tale, written by Theresa Patzschke, which speaks of love, loss and mundanity, and the seemingly innocuous decisions that lead us to each.

Some artists directly intervene in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world and establishing their presence in it, while others fabricate fictional environments for the camera lens.

IN A PARALLEL GALLERY, NONOSEKNOWS (ARTIST VARIANT)(2015), PUNCTUATES THE SPACE WITH A VIDEO AND SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION THAT COMBINES FACT AND FICTION, DOCUMENTING A GROUP OF CHINESE LABORERS WHO HARVEST PEARLS FROM OYSTERS IN ZHUJI, CHINA, EMPTY HIGH RISES NEAR SHANGHAI, AND A FICTIONAL SET BUILT IN THE ARTIST STUDIO IN NEW YORK.

The result of a collaboration with an international group of artists, it will include a cooking show by Will Benedict, a nature show by Korakrit Arunanondchai, a video by Mckenzie Wark, a visual essay by Aria Dean, a talk show by Hannah Black, a docu - short on «seasteading» in Tahiti by Daniel Keller, a report on «reparation hardware» by Ilana Harris Babou, a cartoon by Amalia Ulman, a docu - short on «economic utopias» by Christopher Kulendran Thomas, a Nollywood fictional drama exploring the influence of technology and digital culture in South Africa by the artist collective CUSS Group, and a contribution by the Women's History Museum.

Each artist in the exhibition utilizes scale and weight to explore both visual and conceptual implications of depicting the environment: Jane Callister's painterly landscapes deftly intertwine process and imagery; each painting celebrates a material investigation that generates fictional yet enchanting landscapes.

For a 2011 project commissioned by the British public art association Artangel, Gander created «Locked Room Scenario,» a group show of inaccessible, partly visible artworks by fictional artists that forced viewers to adopt what the artist describes as a «detective's mentality» in attempting to piece together the fragmentary information they encountered.

Currently at MASS MoCA, the artist presents his largest exhibition in the U.S., a vast body of work that features recurring characters including himself, his friends, fictional superheroes, politicians, and film stars.