While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented
on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.
Not exact matches
Their collaborative, ephemeral, and visual works reflect
on contemporary culture through the language of popular music,
consumer culture and other genres.
A monument for the 21st century, Electric Fountain is a celebration of the spectacle, excess, beauty, and desire of
contemporary culture and a provocative comment
on the nature of
consumer society, a theme often present in Noble & Webster's work.
It is our mission to continue to lead as a hub that brings creatives together with
culture consumers, elevating the Southwest's
contemporary arts and
culture market with an emphasis
on critical perspectives and informed dialogue.
Toeing the line between modern expression and interior design, Zittel riffs
on the dimensional possibility of Minimalist sculpture and the infinite customizability of
contemporary consumer culture.
Light was also shed
on sociohistorical and historico - cultural subjects such as «Shopping — A Century of Art and
Consumer Culture,» «Privacy,» the visual art of the Stalin period, or New Romanticism in
contemporary art; other presentations revealed the influence of Charles Darwin's theories
on art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, or the intriguing causalities between artists of the modern era and self - proclaimed «prophets» of this period.
Lucie's work may even trigger a deeper reflection
on modern
consumer culture,» said Gavin Delahunty, Hoffman Family Senior Curator of
Contemporary Art at the DMA.