The exhibition will include key works from 1963 to the early 1970s, encompassing a period
of radical experimentation for the artist and presenting the range of variation he was able to achieve in his constructions.
It is an aesthetic that links many of the women artists who feature in this issue, including Barbara Hepworth (1903 — 1975), whose forthcoming Tate Britain exhibition celebrates not only her long life
of radical experimentation (both in the creation of her artworks and also the way they were to be experienced by the viewer), but also how important an international figure she became, with exhibitions across the globe from a relatively young age.
Oiticica's method
of radical experimentation explains why these works have been, until recently, relatively unknown despite their significance in the history of contemporary art.
Not exact matches
The negative investment thesis seems to rest upon confidence that central bankers, and the Fed in particular, will steer a course away from
radical monetary
experimentation that will return to a normal structure
of interest rates and robust economic growth.
What is clear is that a
radical programme for British and continental European social democracy is unlikely to emerge from «ivory tower» blueprints, rather through a constant process
of «bold, persistent
experimentation», in FDR's memorable phrase.
Yet it can also accommodate Chytilová's beautiful play with textures and super-slow motion in Automat Svět (At the World Cafeteria), pointing to the
radical experimentation which would fully blossom between her and Kučera in Sedmikrásky (Daisies, 1966) and Ovoce stromů rajských jíme (Fruit
of Paradise, 1969).
Arranged thematically, the show explores her pioneering work in portraiture, still life and landscape painting, paying particular attention to her most
radical period
of experimentation during the 1910s.
Gender, despite decades
of protests from the far right, has always been a fluid and limitless terrain
of invention,
radical thought and
experimentation.
These paintings, numbering almost two hundred works, are testament to a long and fascinating career
of inventiveness,
experimentation, and
radical development in the production
of art.
The show explores Rauschenberg's collaborative relationships, constant
experimentation with materials and processes, and
radical rethinking
of what art could be.
«Through their pieces, the artists featured in this exhibition investigate alternative frameworks for perception, often occupying its margins — responding to conditions
of invisibility as well as what can not be represented — through
radical experimentation.»
Some
of the earliest works featured in the exhibition are Sharif's newspaper caricature and comic strip drawings
of the 1970s, which predate his
radical shift towards
experimentation and conceptualism.
In the decades that followed, Horst's
experimentations with
radical composition, nudity, double exposures, and other avant - garde techniques would produce some
of the most iconic fashion images ever, like Mainbocher Corset and Lisa with Harp (both 1939).
49 Cities is a call to re-engage cities as the site
of radical thinking and
experimentation, moving beyond «green building» toward an embrace
of ideas, scale, vision and common sense combined with delirious imagination in the pursuit
of empowering questioning and re-invention.
While Tate Britain explores Turner's celebrated late career in which he embarked on
radical experimentations with technique, process and material, the V&A delves into the story behind Constable's master paintings — many
of which have only received rightful recognition in the modern age.
Renowned for his technical
experimentation, Degas (French, 1834 — 1917) exhibited just one sculpture during his lifetime, the controversial Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, which startled visitors to the 1881 Impressionist exhibition with its unidealized physiognomy and
radical use
of real materials such as silk slippers and a wig made from human hair.
One
of great joys
of «The Freedom Principle» is that it takes us back to the apex
of postwar modernism, when avant - garde music was venturing into uncharted territory and the black -
radical tradition in the us was figuring itself through sonic
experimentation and its visual analogues.
He cites André Breton's Surrealist term
of «occultation» from 1929, meaning that art should pursue
radical artistic
experimentation and not worry too much about mass appeal.
Their works in this exhibition collectively demonstrate both the heritage and the legacy
of Jess and Duncan's
radical experimentation.
Among an ever expanding (and as Karen Barad might say, «entangled») list, I am inspired by the complex and contradictory city I live in (the city
of Chicago) and the incredible community
of hard working, sincere, talented artists who I am surround by and have the privilege
of working alongside and in collaboration with every day (too many and to diverse to name individually here) / / by mentors A. Laurie Palmer and Claire Pentecost and Anne Wilson and Ben Nicholson / / by Simon Starling and Andrea Zittel and Mark Dion and Sarah Sze and Phoebe Wasburn and Mierele Laderman Ukeles and Joseph Beuys and Eva Hesse and Hans Haacke and Robert Smithson / / by writers and philosophers Karen Barad and Jane Bennett and Rebecca Solnit and Italo Calvino and Steward Brand and the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog (
of which my father gave me his copies) and Ken Issacs and Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Cronon and Bruno Latour and Deluze and Guttari and Jack Burnham / / by ideas
of radical intimacy and transformation and ephemerality and
experimentation and growth and agency and mobility and nomadicism and balance and maintenance and survival and change and subjectivity and hylozoism and living structures / / by mycelium and soil and terracotta and honey and mead and wild yeast and beeswax and fat and felt and salt and sulfur and bismuth and meteorites and microbes and algae and oil and carbon and tar and water and lightening and electricity and oak and maple / / by exploration and navigation and «the Age
of Wonder» and the Mir Space Station and the Deep Tunnel Project / / by Lake Michigan and the Chicago River and waterways and canals and oceans and puddles... to name a few.
Dismissing notions
of a diminishing, elderly artist, the display brings together 150 works that reveal Turner's
radical experimentation with technique, process and material during this time.
Leaving to one side ideas
of nationality and regionalism, this exhibition focuses on London as a place
of freedom and
experimentation that enabled artists to produce
radical works that engaged with issues
of participation and collaboration, established new relationships with the public space and fostered art as an effective political tool.
In my most recent work, I hope to live in the tradition
of landscape painting, experiencing it for what it has always been: an occasion for
radical experimentation and confrontation with the world, in the broadest sense
of the term, that sustains us.
Organized thematically and chronologically to explore Gutai's inventive approach to materials, process, and performativity, the exhibition explores the group's
radical experimentation across a range
of media and styles and demonstrates how individual artists pushed the limits
of what art could be in a postatomic age.
Unfolding in two parts throughout 2018, «Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times» addresses concerns
of the present social and political climate through a
radical new model
of experimentation and inquiry.
It is characterized by its distinct sense
of experimentation and its
radical stylistic diversity.
However, viewers
of The Power
of Pictures are presented with a dispiriting historical narrative
of the project, as imagery shifts from
radical experimentation to overt state propaganda.
Hong Kong, June 28, 2016 — Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present
Radical Materiality, a group exhibition featuring Mary Corse, Liu Wei, and Nari Ward, three artists whose practices push the boundaries
of traditional genres and material specificity through innovative
experimentation with unconventional mediums.
Jean Dubuffet and Larry Poons: Material Topographies will explore the
radical experimentation of both artists as they began to utilize unorthodox materials and reject traditional concepts
of pictorial space in search
of a direct, physical language.
Once associated with young women and amateur «Sunday painters,» the medium became, in the hands
of Winslow Homer and John Marin, a theater for
radical experimentation.
Organized thematically and chronologically to explore Gutai's unique approach to materials, process and performativity, Gutai: Splendid Playground explores the group's
radical experimentation across a range
of media and styles, and demonstrates how individual artists pushed the limits
of what art could be or mean in a post-atomic age.
Lehmann Maupin presents
Radical Materiality, a group exhibition featuring Mary Corse, Liu Wei, and Nari Ward, three artists whose practices push the boundaries
of traditional genres and material specificity through innovative
experimentation with unconventional mediums..
Through these pages, Asawa emerges as one
of the key figures
of Black Mountain College and the
radical artistic
experimentation that came out
of it.
This exhibition focuses on a
radical moment
of experimentation and success in her oeuvre.