The category of painting is examined more generally in the wood panels on top of the pedestals: straddling the line between abstraction and representation,
they offer painting as both an object within sculpture as well as a discrete project central to the artistʼs studio practice.
Not exact matches
Featured works — ranging from portraits of emperors and empresses, court
paintings, religious sculpture, and ritual
objects to fine ceramics, bronzes, lacquerware, jade, costumes, textiles, and furniture — will be combined with 3 - D virtual technology and architectural features to
offer visitors an immersive experience,
as if passing through the Forbidden City during the height of its glory and splendor.
This set - up
offers up - to - date dialogue on the active life of
painting,
as immersive environment or interactive
object.
Sculpture has always
offered relief, in more ways than one, and Clement Greenberg made a point of
painting as object.
Featured works — ranging from portraits of emperors and empresses, court
paintings, religious sculpture, and ritual
objects to fine ceramics, bronzes, lacquerware, jade, costumes, textiles, and furniture — will be combined with 3 - D printing technology and architectural features to
offer visitors an immersive experience,
as if passing through the Forbidden City during the height of its glory and splendor.
Bringing together some 80
paintings, collages, and
objects, along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and early commercial work, the exhibition
offers fresh insight into Magritte's identity
as a modern painter and Surrealist artist.
Adopting a multidisciplinary approach to his work through
painting, assembling of
objects, installation, photography, video, and performance art, his artwork
offers a distant conceptual observation of the political and historical events that have shaped his country
as well
as subjectivity in regards to their resulting impact on humanity.
Duncan Campbell's acclaimed film It for Others — shown here in the context of Lismore Heritage Centre — tracks the
object, from African artefacts to cheap, mass - market commodities, while Gerard Byrne's series of museum
paintings offers a view of historic
paintings as objects — photographed from behind, where their making and history is most evident
The change seems to emphasise the fact that the
painting is to be regarded, not
as an
object, but simply the embodiment of an idea, whose «reality», if one can actually use this word in the context
offered, is metaphysical.
Bringing together some eighty
paintings, collages, and
objects, along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and early commercial work, the exhibition
offers fresh insight into Magritte's identity
as a modern painter and surrealist artist.
Also evident is the merging of painterly and sculptural space,
as Stella's
objects, mostly hanging on the walls like
paintings,
offer steel armatures that appear to function like the gestural brush strokes in Kandinski's work.