Acknowledging the celebrity of The Arts Club's staircase by Mies van der Rohe and further exploring the potential resonances
of readymade materials, Ondak incorporates actual remnants of his childhood staircase into two works, each of which combines sardonic humor with an ability to articulate ideas through abbreviated form.
The exhibition also includes Miller's iconic monochromatic gold and brown reliefs, composed of dense, animistic arrangements
of readymade materials, as well as a wide array of his anthropomorphic sculptures, which include pointed, humorous re-imaginations of globes, mannequins and office furniture.
Chicago's many flea markets and garage sales provided much
of the readymade material González used to construct the artworks.
His works present a blend
of readymade material and minimal artistic intervention, achieving unexpected, humorous outcomes that often verge on the absurd and challenge our aesthetic sensibilities.
Not exact matches
Baby pouches - the baby pouches mentioned above are similar to baby slings, except that the baby slips into a
readymade pouch which is part
of the stretchy
material.
Buy punjabi suits in variation
of bottoms in patiala suits, salwar suits at g3fashion with custom and standard stitching options and also
readymade punjabi suits or dress
material.
«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).
By fusing the convention
of the
readymade or found objects with the exploration
of visceral
material, his work captures a tension between order and disarray ¬ — chaos gradually rising into a solid coherent mass.
The primary clinch
of this achievement is Stockholder's sensibility, which permeates all
of the chosen works and follows a set
of necessary prescriptions: the form must in some way be related to the
readymade; the formal palette
of the work must be intentional (either works are steadfastly the natural color
of the
material, or the artists» chosen colors directly relate to the concept
of the piece); and above all the approach must be inventive, but avoid novelty.
He explores the various myths and narratives about our creation and how we came to inhabit the earth through the use
of the
readymade and manmade products placed to mimic the digestive process; the work exists as a continuum with the different objects and
materials interacting, forming a narrative.
He is an artist
of alchemy and the uncontrollable, using eclectic
materials including detergent, disinfectant, perfume and other chemical solutions, to crystallize and transform the
readymade, used as an explicit point
of departure.
Geometric forms, industrial or
readymade materials, and physically demanding structures were characteristic
of the movement, which was inspired by Russian Constructivism, Dutch De Stijl painting and German Bauhaus.
He also calls attention to the spaces
of a gallery, from little more than
readymade materials.
The shims are composed
of a generative,
readymade material, the 16 inches long, tapered wedges you can find in the lumber section
of any American DIY store.
The
readymade materials — bionin, evian, necrion, neotene, and silicone — were mixed to match the standardized hue
of the Northern European skin tone.
From the collages
of the Cubists and the
readymades of Duchamp to the assemblage works
of today, humble
materials have been transformed into stunning works
of art throughout the last century.
Montgomery's shim works are composed
of a generative,
readymade material, the 16 inches long, tapered wedges you can find in the lumber section
of any DIY store.
Pepe's work is handmade, her
materials are
readymade — «because I'm a child
of Duchamp,» she says — and her suppliers are a global village
of owner - operated purveyors.
Taking
readymade materials — a nod to Duchamp's Dadaist sensibilities — he pierces through the skin
of these photographs with mirrors, arrows, and other objects, forming what he calls «photo - sculptures.»
As Marepe often uses
readymade materials, as well as everyday objects or activities, his work has acquired a complex layering
of references and meanings addressing the linkage between the individual and society.
Beat Zoderer, who both, radically reworks
readymade materials, often transforming everyday objects from a wide range
of cultures into startling works
of art is at the same time a sensitive and spectacular sculptor in the more formal sense.
Taking the law as a raw
material of the work, Magid frames books as
readymades, avoiding copy infringement.
Minimalist sculptor Dan Flavin was the first to adopt the medium, creating sculptures from straight glowing bars
of neon, using the commercially available
materials as a sort
of readymade.
Through her iconic use
of found
materials such as wood doors, chains, and synthetic hair associated with her childhood memories and experiences, Stingily imbues the
readymade with political and personal urgency.
However, the
material - centric history
of the
readymade actually played a major part in this shift, as illustrated by works like Michael Craig - Martin's An Oak Tree (1973).
Rather than thinking
of them in terms
of Minimalism, she remembers, he told her they were «about the discomfort he felt in figuring out how two colors can rest next to each other on a canvas, and solving it in the most explicit way possible»: using colored vinyl as a
readymade material, stretching it into rectilinear shapes, and composing based on color and formal relationships.5
The combination
of internal
materials of our buildings» infrastructures and objects and images from the urban landscape develops a space for evaluation and refection
of Cruzvillegas» acquired
readymades contained within the spacial constructs in each piece.
With their collage
of quotidian
materials, their vertical orientation reminiscent
of skyscrapers (albeit in miniature), and their use
of a sculptural idiom, the columns are typical
of Genzken's approach, for although her oeuvre is heterogeneous, architecture, sculpture, modernism, and the
readymade remain touchstones
of her artistic practice.
Each work consists
of three or four painted objects arranged on the wall and floor; they are made
of various
materials e.g. wood, linen, paper, metal, oil paint and
readymade chairs.
He frequently appropriates the forms and
materials of familiar consumer goods, modifying and recontextualizing
readymade items — often tacky, plastic emblems
of Americana — to fundamentally transform their natures.
Mirza combines a variety
of readymade and time based
material to create audio compositions, which are often realised as performances, site - specific installations and kinetic sculptures.
The abutment
of disparate
materials —
readymade and fabricated — invested with memory and meaning refers to the transgenerational registry
of the lived experience on the individual and the collective while the subtle allusions to the Sacred point towards the soul's aspiration for transcendence.
The 20th century saw the explosion
of traditional sculpture, wherein virtually any
material — like John Chamberlain's car parts or Marcel Duchamp's
readymades — could be used, as well as the rise
of such diverse movements as kinetic sculpture, sound sculpture, environmental art, and Minimalist sculpture.
In the 1950s and 60s, works such as Bed (1955) and Canyon (1959) broke free
of the spatial limitations
of the two - dimensional canvas, while the use
of everyday
readymade materials in the paintings inspired the work
of many artists to follow.
1990 Information, Terrain, San Francisco, California, US The 60s Revisited - New Concepts / New
Materials, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, US Various Small Fires in the Gutenberg Galaxy, Galerie Maier - Hahn, Dusseldorf, DE Time Span, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, ES Aquarian Artists, University
of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, US Fragments, Parts, Wholes / The Body and Culture, White Columns, New York, US Che Fare: Concept Art / Minimal / Art Povera / Land Art, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE Kunstenaarsboeken uit de verzameling A.S.P.C., Provinciaal Museum Hasselt, Hasselt, BE Group Show, Mai 36 Gallerie, Germany: Art Frankfurt, CH MeaMemphis Collezione» 89, Art to Use, Frankfurt A.M., DE Group Show, Galeria Marga Paz, Madrid, ES 5 Galerien zu Gast bei Breuninger, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE The
Readymade Boomerang - 8th Biennale
of Sydney, Art Gallery
of New South Wales, Sydney, AU Saga 90, Eric Linard Editions, Grand - Palais, Paris, FR Concept Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, DE Dreams
of Artists, A Metamemphis Collection, 121 Art Gallery, Antwerpen, BE Two Decades
of American Art: The 60s & 70s, Nassau County Museum
of Art, Roslyn Harbor, US RE: Framing / Cartoons, Loughelton Gallery, New York, US; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, US; Gallery A, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, US Robert Gober, Craigie Horsfield, Lawrence Weiner, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, US Wir Nehmen an der Art, Mai 36 Galerie, Basel Art Fair, Basel, CH Word as Image: American Art 1960 - 1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US; Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma, US; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, US A Group Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US Selected Prints and Multiples, Mai 36 Gallery, Lucerne, CH Red, Galerie Christine and Isy Brachot, Brussels, BE Un Choix d'Art Minimal dans la Collection Panza, ARC, Paris, FR Children's Aids Project, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, California, US Interventions / An Exhibition from the Collection
of Delfryd Celf, Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto, CA Savoire Faire / Savoire Vivre, Centre International d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, CA Art Billboards in the Hague - Southwest, The Hague, NL The
Readymade Boomerang Print Portfolio, Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg, DE Time Space Place, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, FR High Season I...
Fuelled by a love
of fashion, form, and
material, Mack fuses paint with
readymade fabrics, structures
of support and his own clothing.
The main contribution
of Dada was to shake up the arts world and to widen the concept
of «modern art», by embracing totally new types
of creativity (performance art and
readymades) as well as new
materials (junk art) and themes.
Early Twentieth Century: Collage, Montage and
Readymade at the Birth
of Modern Culture The incorporation
of found images and
materials into artwork can be traced to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who invented collage and rudimentary assemblage practices during a period
of intense experimentation between 1912 and 1914.
The artists include found objects and unusual
materials as well as
readymade objects reminiscent
of Marcel Duchamp, as Mark Manders does in Silent Factory, (2000) using shoes, books, pots and glassware.
He combines a variety
of readymade and time based
material to create audio compositions, which are often realised as performances, site - specific installations and kinetic sculptures.
Navigating the concept
of the altered
readymade through an anthropological lens, Gaillard has incorporated processed natural and industrial
materials to achieve an equilibrium that reflects the way in which our society simultaneously progresses and reverts in the realm
of the bleak.
In responding to Donald Judd who made «specific objects,» Le Va provides the viewer with «non-specific situations,» inviting us to complete the work
of art through bodily interaction with
materials and our sense
of perception: «What I want [viewers] to do is place themselves in the work, and search out some kind
of meaning that fits the object, as opposed to immediately seeing something and applying some
readymade explanation... I want the work to set up a dialogue.
From his work with humble,
readymade materials to his ambitious public sculptures and his rock band, Creed demonstrates how his ideas circulate through the variety
of media he engages in his art.
Often using brightly colored sections
of cars this
readymade material, as it were, allowed Chamberlain to challenge traditional sculptural, as well as painterly, boundaries and essentially fuse, or rather fit, them together.
Lee likes to use one
readymade material and subject it to a series
of systematic variations, as evidenced by his 2010 show at Maccarone gallery where he presented 96 sculptures made from terrycloth towels.
The diverse range
of artists were invited to purchase items at America's omnipresent 99 Cent stores and use those
materials to create new artworks, referencing both Duchamp's
readymades and the practice
of Arte Povera.
(2009)(on view in Bushwick) are bricolages
of found
materials, enamel, oil paint,
readymade objects such as stools and rulers, and images which memorialize the artist's own collaborative urban interventions.
Artspace's Dylan Kerr gained an audience with the near - mythical artist to discuss the aesthetics
of automatic hand sanitizers, Spongebob - as -
readymade, and why she's bringing Shrek to
Material.