They met while studying graphic design together and after graduation decided to set up their own studio, focusing on installations
of handcrafted objects made from tangible materials such as paper, wood and thread.
Find a selection
of handcrafted objects, gif...
Find a selection
of handcrafted objects, gifts + #fashion by the dosa label and collaborators, including these hand - beaded scissors made in #Kolkata in response to our main gallery exhibition, «Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us» dedicated to hairstylist and inventor Étienne Szeemann.
Not exact matches
By denying that a work
of art must be a precious
handcrafted object, Mr Stella paved the way for later artists who were also inclined to view claims
of spiritual transcendence with scepticism.
The artist makes drawings from grease paint and fire, uses edible materials such as butter, chocolate and alcohol to make hilarious and sad installations (beds that wet themselves, pillows that smoke), and
handcrafts exquisite reproductions
of both animate and inanimate
objects (an upended trashcan sewn from felt, a mangy, fake - fur fox, a two - story folding chair).
Francis operates almost entirely through
handcrafting: he creates contemporary
objects by use
of twentieth - century techniques and simple hand tools.
Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's
handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature
of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An
Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row
of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique
of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings
of photographs
of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique
of the use
of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept
of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history
of photography.
Comprised
of various video installations,
handcrafted objects, and architectural interventions, Hilary Lloyd's first U.S. solo museum exhibition presents new work created specifically to be experienced in Blaffer Art Museum's upstairs galleries.
Comprised
of various video installations,
handcrafted objects, and architectural interventions, Hilary Lloyd presents new work created specifically to be experienced in Blaffer Art Museum's upstairs galleries.
He has quite a selection
of paintings made on
handcrafted wooden substraits, he also has a selection
of paintings made on found
objects (such as wakeboards, table tops, guitars, etc).
She often combines ceramic elements, beautifully
handcrafted, with utilitarian items, such as toilet plungers or buckets, to create pieces that call into question the cultural and historic meaning
of particular
objects or images.
Guggenheim Fellowship awardee David McDonald is another such artist, whose sculptures fuse the tradition
of found
object assemblage with the Post-Minimalist emphasis on
handcrafted forms — in his case, hand - hewn blocks, cylinders, and orbs
of clay, wood, and concrete.
These found
objects are crucial additions to the exhibition — they interrupt the seamlessness
of Schwegler's masterfully
handcrafted tableau.
Referencing a range
of historical and contemporary codes and double meanings including floriography, the Victorian cultural phenomenon that used flowers as tokens to communicate hidden or forbidden pleasures, Fox developed the «Phantasieblume» body
of work (2008 - 11), a series
of intricately hand cut decorative
objects resembling the preciousness
of handcrafted Victorian lace sited within a series
of cabinets.
Transformation, travel, memory, landscape, modernism, architecture, ethnography, as well as the photograph, the moving image, the
handcrafted object, the presence
of the body, and painting are themes brought to bear by the artworks in the exhibition.
Alcova collection
of «
handcrafted geometric
objects that can sit alone or be grouped to create intimate landscapes», designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.
Pictured here, the Alcova collection
of «
handcrafted geometric
objects that can sit alone or be grouped to create intimate landscapes», designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.
Free - standing rippled mirrors,
handcrafted in Murano specifically for this project, are placed in each room alongside Jonas's highly distinctive drawings and kites, as well as a selection
of objects that were used as props in her videos.
The difference between the two
objects lies within their haptic reality, their ideal value in terms
of fashion versus art, merchandise versus edition,
handcrafted versus manufactured, static versus the mobile possibilities
of site — a scarf and an image.
A majority
of the work has never before been shown in the UK and includes an extraordinary selection
of the artist's
handcrafted domestic
objects borrowed from the artist's Roxbury home in Connecticut, not only offering insight into the artist's life but also revealing the integration
of his artistic practice.
The
handcrafted and painted art
objects on sale were as unconventional as their setting: lumpy and unruly, they neither resembled the mass - produced items they purported to represent nor shared the recognizable look
of fine art.
Some
of the works in DeAnna Maganias's first solo show, which consisted
of several installations, ingeniously devised, involving small, impeccably
handcrafted objects, explored analogous states
The artist makes portraits
of undocumented Latin American immigrants, and
of other distinct communities, using the focused attention
of observational painting to mark those who are socially unmarked in society, along with the apparently anonymous goods that constitute a transnational trade in quotidian
objects such as flowers, garments,
handcrafts and letters.
This talk will address large - scale exhibitions by Rachel Harrison, Isa Genzken, and Geoffrey Farmer consisting
of sprawling accumulations
of objects: some found, some modified, some
handcrafted.
This shift in Piacentino's work, away from pure minimalism while still maintaining a commitment to blemish-less surfaces, is in line with these words from Germano Celant: «It is in this historical climate
of oscillation between art and design,
handcrafts and industry, the useful and the useless, the one - off piece and the mass - produced
object, and between the autonomy and heteronomy
of pure creation, that we can place the contribution
of Piacentino, whose otherness and uniqueness lie precisely in the dialectic between the two poles, Pop and Minimal.
free - standing rippled mirrors conceived by jonas and
handcrafted in murano specifically for this exhibition, are placed within each room; alongside the artist's distinctive drawings and kites, and a curated selection
of objects that were used as props in her videos.
Yet they are
handcrafted, not industrially fabricated, and reward a type
of close looking not usually needed for minimalist
objects.
Handcrafted from iron and reclaimed pine, the minimalist silhouette
of the shelves allows endless arrangements
of decorative
objects to take center stage.
«We had a great time searching for those unusual, often one -
of - a-kind
objects and
handcrafted furnishings.