Sentences with phrase «ordinary materials represents»

His selection of ordinary materials represents the hair salon, Home Depot, and the streets of Los Angeles.

His selection of ordinary materials represents the hair salon, Home Depot, and the streets of Los Angeles — both the culture industry and the grey economy.

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«Luna has created a space for ritual from ordinary materials, many of which represent suffering and poverty,» said critic Laura U. Marks in her review of the artist's show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles for the October 1996 issue of Artforum.

«The reality I use — such as the tires in my work of the»70s, which represent my father's factory, which later had to close, we became poor, and he committed suicide — is always an ordinary material, like the knee, or the Eros, of my drawings.»

Often working on a monumental scale, with light and temporary materials, some of her sculptures seem to represent an ordinary object (a raspberry, a pile of newspapers), whereas some represent «sculpture» itself (public monuments, an ancient goddess, Neolithic stones), and some represent the act of making (a swoop of the hand, a crush of the fist).