Sentences with phrase «point for generations of artists»

Clark's groundbreaking work radically innovated the relationship between the art object and audience and became a reference point for generations of artists pushing the limits of sculpture and performance today.

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Calligraphy, miniature painting, Sufi mysticism, and other traditions are the starting point for a new generation of artists from the Islamic world who are using the language of contemporary art to inflect their work with multiple layers of meaning.

In the context of the exhibition ``... and yet one more world,» presented by Kunsthaus Hamburg, the oeuvre of the seminal German Conceptual artist Hanne Darboven (1941 — 2009) serves as a starting point for an exploration of its present - day impact and relevance from the perspective of a younger generation of international artists.

Painting walls, floor and most of seven sculptural tableaux a medium gray, Pictures Generation artist Barbara Bloom transforms David Lewis into a monochrome stage set, echoing the vintage black - and - white photographs of actors and literary figures that constitute the starting point for each of her works.

More unexpected is the discovery that an artist so closely identified with abstraction and with enlarging the possibilites for her own and future generations - with what her friend Anthony Caro calls «the onward of art» - should have looked not only to her lived visual experience as a starting point for her work but also to the art of the distant and recent past.

Starting point for this exhibition is what this means for a younger generation of artists and curators.

Marking the centenary of the start of World War I and drawn from the Harry Ransom Center's collections, this exhibition explores war from the point of view of its participants and observers, preserved for a 21st - century generation through letters, drafts, and diaries, memoirs and novels, photographs and works produced by battlefield artists, and propaganda posters and films..

Though little known outside of Switzerland, André Thomkins's enigmatic art was an important reference point for contemporaries like Daniel Spoerri and Dieter Roth, as well as for artists of later generations, particularly Markus Raetz.

This monolithic dead end is, however, only a sculptural starting point for Alice Konitz, who, since graduating from CalArts in 1999 (after arriving from Germany), has gradually and rather quietly emerged as one of the most important Los Angeles - based artists of her generation.

Exposure to these works — with which many Chinese artists might be familiar only in reproduction or online — is seen by Tinari as a means of fostering creative dialogue between the two artistic traditions and diminishing the «time - lag» that hindered domestic art for so long after the Reform and Opening Up period that followed Mao's death in 1976, traditionally taken as the «starting point» of contemporary Chinese art (Tinari concedes that this is a useful marker, but suggests that a new generation of art historians should «complicate» such simplified narratives).

Although Hesse, Smithson and Matta - Clark died within a decade of introducing their paradigmatic work, all of these artists separately and together left a formidable impression on the work being made from that time and up through today to the point that it is time that we recognize just how great an extent the movement grew into a ubiquitous and capaciously - subsumptive choice of artmaking for three successive generations.

Taking «world making» as a starting point also allows the exhibition to highlight the fundamental importance of certain key artists for the creativity of successive generations, just as much as exploring new spaces for art to unfold outside the institutional context and beyond the expectations of the art market.»

Do you think that surface qualities or surface incident seen in the art of the first generation or Abstract Expressionism prevent a significant point of departure for artists today — or that activity on the surface is coming to be significant again?

By exhibiting significant artworks in its storefront location at the edge of Taksim Square in Istanbul, collectorspace seeks to engage the general public on issues that motivate contemporary artists while creating reference points for next generations of collectors regarding their role in supporting knowledge production.

Through this acute consciousness of the historical turning - point between the analogue and digital eras, he had indicated a route to a generation of younger artists: among them Ed Atkins, as well as figures such as James Richards (who was himself nominated for the 2014 Turner prize), Helen Marten and Camille Henrot.

The innovativeness and inventiveness of her work, rich in autobiographical elements and subtle comments on society, serve as a reference point and source of inspiration for generations of artists and art lovers.