While much of the work in the exhibition utilizes Ebony and Jet imagery and text as source material, for some, the concept of these iconic publications and their institutional histories provides the starting
point for artistic production.
Not exact matches
The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) uses the visual arts as a
point of departure
for exploring new
artistic production across a variety of disciplines.
This event considers the function of text, artist's writing and
artistic language as departure
points to explore the necessity of writing
for a wide range of contemporary artists» working today such as Martha Rosler, Hito Steyerl, Jonas Staal, Cai Gu - Qiang, Miguel A. Lopez, Marion von Osten and the many others who emphasize the act of writing as either a significant part, or as the main site of their
artistic production.
With its 3 per 5 meters size Paule Hammer's Dreamed World Map (Geträumte Weltkarte), painted between 2010 and 2013, attracts a lot of attention and is the starting
point for a discussion with the artist about encyclopedic strategies in his
artistic production.
For both artists, the trees serve as an iconographic trope, and permits them a
point of embarkation to explore their own particular methodologies of
artistic production.
However, since the beginning of the 20th century, the term has retained a connotation of radicalism, and carries the implication that
for artists to be truly avant - garde they must challenge the
artistic status quo - that is, its aesthetics, its intellectual or
artistic conventions, or its methods of
production - to the
point of being almost subversive.