Sentences with phrase «plinths like»

In stark contrast, «The Fall» presents a slick representation of black paint falling from an invisible point above a plinth like a suspended waterfall.

Not exact matches

If only the sole purpose of Churchill weren't to take ol' Winnie off the plinth and make him seem like a little more of a flesh - and - blood man — a goal the movie fails on account of being inert, decorous, and almost absurdly repetitive.

What should be the game's crowning feature is instead reduced to an undeserved supporting role, like an exquisitely carved plinth groaning under the weight of a gaudy bronze bust of an elven wraith who's looking very, very serious indeed.»

Elsewhere, crushed car wrecks are also gainfully employed as plinths for her equally car wreck - like works.

The gilded nature of the sculpture and the unrecognizable identity of the chair degrades the sculpture into a whole form — betraying what Hutchins, in an interview with curator Stuart Horodner, has called the «prepositional» quality of her work, the same plinth - like quality that puts her in such close company with contemporary Rachel Harrison, whose work is dominantly composed of propped and disruptive readymade elements.

There is force being represented and played with in Mason's large singularities; the forms bend around a central axis, like dancers bodies, they stand united on the plinth in silhouette, and hold a position each differently.

The show at Michael Werner — surely a precursor to a retrospective — displays early sculptures and remnants from his performances on a plinth, like relics in a museum.

Alexis Granwell's biomorphic body - scale papier - mache sculptures on geometric wood, Masonite, and brick plinths are centrally positioned in the gallery, inhabiting it like curvier, less severe versions of Louise Bourgeois's groupings of Personages.

It formed a strict rectangle a few inches thick, like an architectural plinth, with room to circulate by the walls.

Set atop an altar - like plinth or landscape, the figure lies in a submissive pose.

Although some of her most iconic large - scale works aren't in this exhibition, such as her commission for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square «Monument» (2001), and her haunting «Holocaust Memorial» (2000) which has a permanent location in Vienna, some smaller and equally iconic works are featured at the Tate Britain including «Untitled» (One Hundred Spaces)(1995), a composed of 100 casts of the negative space beneath a chair, arranged like sentinels guarding the imposing sweep of the Duveen Galleries, beyond the classical columns of the entrance.

In the works of Chris Ofili, painting is combined with sculptural elements like unconventional plinths to great and influential effect.

Also part of the show is the tremendous Parrhesia («Freedom of Speech», 2010), a collection of seven roughly painted papier - mâché head - like forms mounted with spikes on plinths, a haunting reminder of our democratic duty to speak out the truth, as we see it.

Which sculpture would you like to see on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth when the Blue Cock flies the coop?

Small but highly sensuous objects by Ernesto Neto look like sex aids, hardly items to be secured on a gallery plinth and gawked at.

These range freely from the 1950s to today, from a bronze Fin by William Turnbull, standing like an upsized Neolithic implement on a rugged stone plinth, to a great big fibreglass egg by Gavin Turk.

For her rather stunning debut at Metro Pictures, VanDerBeek created a museum - like tableau with a colonnade of tall white plinths and glistening, reflective blue photographs that hide and reveal images of female statuary that might sit on them, depending on the viewpoint.

Both are plinth - like in structure and relative in height to the human body.

The Turner Prize may be maligned in some quarters as pretentious or willfully oblique but, like Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth, it provides a rare opportunity to put challenging, immersive contemporary art before the general public and for that service alone deserves to be cut some slack.

I also quite liked that a couple of galleries had invested in beautiful packing crates that also doubled as plinths and frames for the artworks, such as at Bacarelli Botticelli Gallery and Koetser Gallery.

Hauser & Wirth cleverly created their exhibition based on the concept of a field showcasing 42 sculptures on plinths that allowed visitors to wander within and around to observe works by the likes of Martin Creed, Isa Genzken, Jason Rhoades, and Phyllida Barlow.

She put on an eye - catching performance in the center of the exhibition conspicuously tying herself to a chair on a tall plinth and inviting audience to interact in any way they like.

Clifford Landon Pun Opium, No Pun Intended, 2011 Digital print on plinth, 36 ″ x 54 Image Courtesy Melissa Blackall Photography It sounds like a karaoke bar, a din of...

Sitting on its plinth at the center of 47 Canal's Focus booth, Wu's Foreign Object # 1 Fluffy Light (terrence)(2017) looks a bit like a soap bubble.

A set of steel braces, a heavy industrial pipe — sometimes upended to behave like a plinth, and sometimes arranged to draw the viewer's attention to its sculptural form and beauty through tension and load.

The sleek, glossy sculptures of the late Westcoast artist John McCracken look like they came straight from a factory floor but the vibrant leaning planks, plinths, and wall - mounted rods were painstakingly sanded, painted and glossed to perfection by hand.

A sculpture exhibited in 2006, «Bootleg Piece # 2 (Brussels),» was a plinth - like object supporting a stack of illegal CD recordings.

She explains: «The box is almost like a plinth — I was thinking about the cross, the Crucifixion, and how it related to this box as a twenty - first century place of horror, humiliation and human rights atrocities, and I couldn't help but connect the two.»

Other L.A. inclusions, like Mark Bradford and Sterling Ruby (wave - end paper paintings and spray - painted plinths with ceramics and canvases, respectively) felt significant and necessary.

The work Looms like a dinosaur — «Gift Horse» portrays a skeletal, riderless horse — a wry comment on the equestrian statue of William IV originally planned for the plinth.

The two projects I would like to see on the plinth are Michael Rakowitz's The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist, and Heather Phillipson's The End.

The plinth itself isn't made of birch though, but MDF with a wood - like look on the outside.

Invest in serviceable items like magazine tables, TV stands and plinths (to support a plant, sculpture or bust).