Sentences with phrase «on modernist architecture»

Combining associations of health, hygiene cleanliness (and easy - to - cleanness) modernity and machine like precision of operation, they were to have a major influence on modernist architecture and furniture design between the wars.

The house's clean and cantilevered design draws heavily on modernist architecture.

The show riffs on Modernist architecture the legacies of artists such as Anni Albers and and Ruth Asawa.

Drawing on modernist architecture, Israeli Kibbutzim, the plays of Bertolt Brecht, and Constructivist set design as influences, Meromi will create a series of sculptural environments that are continually altered through off - hours «rehearsals» that will take place in the gallery.

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Where church architecture is concerned, the modernists» repudiation of traditional forms is invalid on its own terms.

So he does exactly that, using countless features taking place (or shot) in Los Angeles to show the development of the city, as well as how decisions on and off the screen impact each other (one of my favourite parts: when Andersen explains how the city's modernist architecture was devalued by having the movies always associate the look with antagonists).

It's worth visiting Gdynia on a weekend trip to Gdansk, it's only half an hour away by train and you can see modernist architecture, maritime attractions or go hiking in the local Nature Reserve.

The artists in the exhibition inflect Modernist forms with contemporary perspectives on intimate subjects including: the poetics of domestic architecture, the pertinence of ancient myth, and the solipsism of art history.

Opie's narrative is specific to Los Angeles as it focuses on L.A.'s rich history of modernist architecture as well as the recent onslaught of political and natural disasters, such as fires and floods that have dominated the news.

At the same time, curator Jane Livingstone notes «His searching, inventive attacks on the ancient problem of capturing (or posing) the figure, and the figure's relationship to architecture and furniture and draperies, suggest a discipline worthy of Ingres or Degas» (J. Livingstone, «Richard Diebenkorn: Modernist Humanist,» in Richard Diebenkorn: Figurative Works on Paper, exh.

Thirty years after graduating from the School of Art + Design, Julie presents a new series of works that reflect on how the modernist architecture of the campus and its utopian ideals influenced her artistic practice.

In addition, FIAC will develop the presence of important modernist and contemporary architectures with exceptional projects by Jean Prouvé, Christian de Portzamparc and Hans - Walter Müller, among others, installed on the Esplanade des Feuillants that borders the Rue de Rivoli.

Mika Tajima employs sculpture, painting, video, music, and performance, often drawing on contradictions in modernist design and architecture to consider how the performing subject (e. g., speaker, dancer, designer, factory worker, musician, filmmaker) is constructed in spaces in which material objects outline action and engagement.

Robert Orchardson's work draws on a range of sources from modernist architecture and futuristic design, including utopian manifestos, stage sets and details from science fiction films.

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.

This year's shortlist consists of Knut Henriksen, whose dominating sculptures reference modernist architecture, utopian ideals and pragmatic solutions with dazzling visceral results; Vibeke Tandberg who has filled a room with among other things, 119 plaster casts of freezer doors as a comment on recycling; Lars Lauman who has crammed a room with ephemera from an era that seemed chemically obsessed, including E.T dolls and archival science material on acid attacks; while Mattias Härenstam has set up a pulley that drags a birch tree branch around the exterior of a room, blocking people from entering or exiting the doorway.

As the museum sets its sights on showcasing its expanding outdoor space, Portals will serve as a natural transition from the museum's modernist architecture to the quietude of the forest.

Artist Heidrun Holzfeind, designer and artist Damon Rich, and writer Niko Vicario consider the legacy of modernist architecture, urban redevelopment, and self - determination in Newark, New Jersey, in an exhibition of new cross-disciplinary works produced on and around the 58 - acre urban renewal site of Mies van der Rohe's Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments.

Living Modern Heidrun Holzfeind, Damon Rich, Niko Vicario Curator: Laura Barlow Artist Heidrun Holzfeind, designer and artist Damon Rich, and writer Niko Vicario consider the legacy of modernist architecture, urban redevelopment, and self - determination in Newark, New Jersey, in an exhibition of new cross-disciplinary works produced on and around the 58 - acre urban renewal site of Mies van der Rohe's Colonnade and Pavilion Apartments.

By extension of Modernist architectural history — specifically that of the eras of Russian Constructivist and Brutalist architecture and their influence on American urbanism — Andrade conjures the legacy of the town square as a place of hybrid activity involving intellectual dialogue, contemplation, political ideology, commerce, protest, civic duty, celebration, violence and more.

These three artists embed forms associated with modernist architecture and design as well as Minimalism into their sculptures and works on paper.

Other recent projects by Zimmerman include Observatory / Projector (Metropolis), a mashup model of modernist architecture which projects a constellation of glowing abstract form on the ceiling and walls around it.

Mika Tajima employs sculpture, painting, video, music, and performance, often drawing on contradictions in modernist design and architecture to consider how the performing subject (e. g. speaker, factory worker, musician, filmmaker) is constructed in spaces in which material objects outline action and engagement.

Sam Jacob on traditions of hygiene in modernist architecture; Michael Soi on the Kenya Pavilion controversy; Lucas Ospina on altering power relations between artists and the market; Laura Oldfield Ford on a psychogeographic walk from East Ham High Street to Bethnal Green; Maria Lind in defence of commissioning new work; Laura McLean - Ferris on Lauren Bakst's recent performance; Jonathan Grossmalerman on how to paint death.

Modernism: On and Off the Grid, curated by Niko Vicario, brings together works engaged with the legacy of Modernist architecture and design.

From 2012 - 2013, I went on several visits to South Africa and Namibia, when I first came across post-colonial modernist architecture on the seafront.

The bookstore specializes in publications on contemporary art and architecture, Modernist architecture, the work of R.M. Schindler, and exhibition catalogues from both the MAK Center and the MAK Vienna.

From the interiors of modernist architecture for which she is best known, she now has moved on to photographing works that are located between architecture and sculpture.

Based on the historical work of Brazilian artist Athos Bulcão, the work reflects upon an important artist in Brazil's recent history and discusses modernist architecture and its utopias as a means of transforming Brazilian society.

Wade Guyton prints red and black lines and crosses on old photographs of Modernist art and architecture — utopian plans slyly, almost lovingly, defaced and in the process modestly renewed.

Peake's project is anything but a rumination on the perceived failure of Modernist architecture.

Following on from her commission for Frieze Film, Some Ends of Things (2011), depicting an egg - person wandering around the hallways of a modernist building, Hopf's new work will also take the architecture of a modernist home as its context.

Using clay and concrete, Adrián Villar Rojas's sculptures and installations draw on the history of Minimalist sculpture and Modernist architecture, creating works that refer back to classical antiquity and forward towards a future archaeology.

Other works on display include Seher Shah's graphite on paper drawings, Brutalist Traces (2015 - 16), of the modernist architecture of New Delhi; artist Gauri Gill's notebooks entitled «1984» (2005, 2009, 2014), from which are also displayed several photographs of the people and interior spaces of the «Widows Colony» in Tilak Vihar, where families affected by the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 were provided housing by the state; and a series of streetscape photographs by Pablo Bartholomew, including Man Asleep in Front of Political Graffiti, Calcutta (1978) which embodies how, in South Asia, history inflects the everyday.

I was also struck by the formal parallels between this very pure kind of painting and the Modernist architecture going on at the same time.

His take on the tension between corporate architecture and collectivity encapsulates the relationship between form and the political drive of the modernist enterprise that underlies this exhibition's thesis.

Dave Hardy's sculptures draw on the earnest language of provisional architecture and self - assured gestures of modernist sculpture.

The legacy of echt - modernist architecture and planning, for example — a creed of formal sobriety in the service of rationalized material (and social) technologies that was uniquely influential on the condition of the twentieth - century urban fabric — has long provided raw material for any number of theoretical and artifactual recapitulations.