Sentences with phrase «prefabricated objects»

By forming Biters and referencing the image of a DJ and MC from a rap crew, the two artists acknowledge the debt their practices hold to hip - hop culture and its relationship with art and appropriation; the reconfiguring of prefabricated objects, a logo or symbol becoming a mark of tribal affinity, an audio source and / or drum break that paints the environment to an entire song.

Carl Andre was working with scultpures made of prefabricated objects.

Employing appropriation as a strategy of production, they incorporate prefabricated objects and imagery into their art, repositioning them in ways that expand our perceptions of history, representation, class, violence, resistance, and cultural practice.

Not exact matches

A found object, the façade of a prefabricated building, takes up nearly the entire gallery space.

Steinbach will reconfigure the architecture of the galleries with standard architectural building materials including metal studs, sheetrock, prefabricated shelving, paint, and wallpaper — all of which will provide new frameworks to display works from the Hessel Collection in addition to everyday objects selected by the artist.

Their naming, playful and often poetic, at odds with the prefabricated materials from which they are constructed, parallels the sense of an object almost, though never entirely, anthropomorphic in scale and presence.