Sentences with phrase «readymade art»

Organized by CAMH's new curatorial talent, Dean Daderko, this group exhibition attempts to update dialogues around the notion of the readymade art form.

is a group exhibition that explores how the readymade art form has changed as it approaches its 10oth anniversary.

At the center of the show is the work of artist Nancy Shaver, whose readymade art displayed in an antique store in Hudson, New York, confuse high and low, craft and fine art.

Not exact matches

I wanted to make work that would add to the dialogue of the readymade and the concept of objective art.

Upending traditional distinctions between fine, folk, and decorative arts, Grebenak subverts the readymade tendencies of the Pop - era to establish a cheeky - irreverence all her own.

Juni Figueroa arranges clothes in a white window blind system to create a very memorable send up of «high art,» specifically abstract painting, with this «tropical readymade.»

As incorporated extensions, even a simple nod towards a shape that might be reminiscent of a readymade form is quite literally a vocaliser of external things — an agent of the world outside art - making.

Themes emerge, including an intense investigation of the Duchampian concept of the readymade, and Koons's elevation of the commonplace or the familiar to the status of high art; his ambitious pursuit of beauty through technical rigor; his unwillingness to accept any technical limitations; and his search for perfection.

She is rewriting the canon as she creates it, seeking to observe the temporary transformations of «thing to art object, from collective to readymade.»

A homage to Marcel Duchamp by Sturtevant turns a historic display of his readymades into night - club decor, a reminder of the sadly clubby art scene lying downtown today.

Our Artistic Director Tim Marlow gives a quick introduction to Marcel Duchamp, whose revolutionary readymades shook art to its foundations.

The artist first encountered these unadorned objects as found or readymade works of art at his local Walgreens pharmacy, where he noted: «Half of the store seems dedicated to catalysing chronic bodily decay, and the other half seems dedicated to the fallout.»

Marcel Duchamp's notorious «readymade» Fountain from 1917, which consisted of a standard urinal signed «R Mutt», went further by changing the way an everyday object was experienced and used, while testing the meanings, values and beliefs associated with art.

From the collages of the Cubists and the readymades of Duchamp to the assemblage works of today, humble materials have been transformed into stunning works of art throughout the last century.

The first group of works in the exhibition offers a journey through modern art, beginning in the early twentieth century with Picasso and the invention of cubism and Duchamp and the questions surrounding the readymade.

The exhibition looks at the shifting moment in twentieth - century art, when a group of artists began to perceive colour as «readymade» rather than as scientific or expressive.

«Throughout his career, he has pioneered new approaches to the readymade, tested the boundaries between advanced art and mass culture, challenged the limits of industrial fabrication, and transformed the relationship of artists to the cult of celebrity and the global market,» the Whitney notes in describing the Koons exhibit.

She blurs the line between fine, folk and decorative arts by subverting the readymade tendencies of her (mostly) male counterparts through a traditionally female dominated vocation.

KÖR — Kunst im Offentlichen Raum (Wien) Kunststiftung NRW — Arts Foundation of North Rhine - Westphalia KW Institute — Kunst - Werke Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) LACMA — Los Angeles County Museum of Art LAF — Loan agreement form (for lending / borrowing artworks for exhibitions) LIAF — Lofoten International Art Festival LE — Limited edition LEF Journal — Left Front of the Arts (a publication in 1920s Soviet Russia) L.H.O.O.Q. — Marcel Duchamp's 1919 readymade of a Mona Lisa postcard; pronounced in French, it means, «She has a hot ass»

Selected group exhibitions include The Museum Imagined at Danese Corey, New York; The Museum Presents Itself 2 at Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Domestic Ideals at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York; The Readymade Centennial at Haifa Museum of Art; Re: Visiting Rockefeller at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem; and Senses of the Mediterranean at Hangar Bicocca, Milan.

Part Frankenstein, part St. Sebastian, part «readymade,» Gallaccio's one art, which borrowed its title from an Elizabeth Bishop poem, orbited both the sublime and the saturnine.

Duchamp, who was on the Society's board, tested the limits of the organization's guidelines by anonymously submitting what would become his most famous readymade (an ordinary manufactured object that he designated as a work of art).

While the elevation of the mundane to the status of art object has occurred since Marcel Duchamp, Manders's sculptures are not mere readymades.

But whereas Duchamp's readymades, such as his famous urinal, questioned the artwork's privileged status as a handmade object, the new generation places art within the context of capitalist economy.

From 2002 to 2007 she was the Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts where she organized the first US retrospectives of Louise Lawler and Luc Tuymans, as well as Part Object Part Sculpture, which examined sculpture in the wake of Marcel Duchamp's erotic objects and hand made readymades of the 1960s.

There were 37 young artists involved, split into 12 groups, exhibiting everything from optical art to readymades.

It's easy to forget in the age of readymade iTunes playlists that real DJing is an art form that goes beyond the ability to put together a list of randomly - shuffled MP3s, and that a DJ with true skills can make all the difference in the world.

Other works in the exhibition include Jorge Pardo's handcrafted wooden palette and modernist designed furniture that question the nature of the aesthetic experience; pioneering conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth's discourse on aesthetics in neon, An Object Self - Defined, 1966; Rachel Lachowicz's 1992 row of urinals cast in red lipstick, which delivers a feminist critique of Duchamp's readymade; Richard Pettibone's paintings of photographs of Fountain; Richard Phillips» recent paintings based on Gerhard Richter's highly valued work; Miami artist Tom Scicluna's neon sign, «Interest in Aesthetics,» a critique of the use of aesthetics in Fort Lauderdale's ordinance on homelessness; the French collaborative Claire Fontaine's lightbox highlighting Duchamp's critical comments about art juries; Corey Arcangel's video Apple Garage Band Auto Tune Demonstration, 2007, which tweaks the concept of aesthetics in the digital age; Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs, Four Water Towers, 1980, that reveal the potential for aesthetic choices within the same typological structures; and works by Elad Lassry and Steven Baldi, who explore the aesthetic history of photography.

From 2002 to 2007 she was the Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts where she organized the first US retrospectives of Louise Lawler and Luc Tuymans, as well as Part Object Part Sculpture which examined sculpture produced in the wake of Marcel Duchamp's erotic objects and hand made readymades of the 1960s.

Across from a wall displaying several of his Tropical Readymades, Figueroa's installation Please Hold Me, 2015, resembled a messy collage of handmade signs sporting phrases such as «necesito dinero para producir arte, mi pais esta jodido... please help me» [«need money to make art, my country is fucked»] and «soy un pobre diablo de una isla tropical en banca rota» [«I'm a poor devil from a tropical island in bankruptcy»].

Chad Wys (born in Illinois in 1983) is known for utilizing readymade and collage works to express his fascination with art, history and visual culture.

Arguably the most influential development in art of the twentieth century, the use of the readymade was set in motion 100 years ago with Marcel Duchamp's Bicycle Wheel.

Taking note from Marcel Duchamp, who first utilized the found object as readymade, Broodthaers reworked its implementation and used groups of objects and even entire exhibitions as readymades, as in Section des Figures (1972), installed by his «fake» art museum referenced above.

Beat Zoderer, who both, radically reworks readymade materials, often transforming everyday objects from a wide range of cultures into startling works of art is at the same time a sensitive and spectacular sculptor in the more formal sense.

Both of these are white canvases that are also sculptural objects, and the Cattelan has a sort of humor to it, but it also references so much art history — propping pieces by Richard Serra, readymade works by Duchamp; you name it — so there's this very subtle, humorous gesture on Cattelan's part.

Like many artists in the second half of the 20th century, Steinbach took his cue from Marcel Duchamp's famous readymades: commonplace appliances like the famous urinal, Fountain, which with a swift change of venue and title, Duchamp elevated to art.

Long neglected in the shadow of photography, video, and Readymades, it now vehemently holds its own in contemporary art.

At the Museum of Modern Art, the current exhibition «Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today» examines two separate but related meanings of readymade color.

In the early 1980s, Weiwei moved to New York where he got influenced by pop art and started creating conceptual artworks made of altered readymade objects that brought him worldwide exposure.

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Drawing on the history of the readymade, as well as the legacy of Minimalism (with particular reference to the work of Robert Ryman), the canvases also serve as signifiers of how such institutions figure in art - world consciousness as a locus of desire.

While Duchamp's readymades of the early 20th century took the industrially - produced object out of circulation, by the end of the century the readymade as «commodity sculpture» had fully entered another system of circulation: the art market.

The piece initially reads as a witty readymade, yet as the story unfolds, the narrative of Glen's relationship to Art reveals serious dimensions, fraught with complexity and contradictions.

References to technology (Photoshop, plotter machines, flat - screen televisions) were placed alongside an art - historical vocabulary of readymades, Abstract Expressionism and the avant - garde.

The Fountain was the first example of what's now called «the readymade»: an ordinary object that becomes art merely due to its context; otherwise it's just an ordinary object.

To mark the centenary of Duchamp's first readymade, What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me, the ambitious group show at the Fine Art Society on New Bond Street, London, seeks to establish his wide - ranging influence on contemporary artists.

Art was revolutionised when in 1913 Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968) created his first «readymade», Bicycle Wheel, although it was not exhibited until the following year.

Taking this idea one step further, Duchamp's readymades invented a new category of artworks composed entirely out of manufactured, pre-made objects that stood on their own as autonomous works of art.

But if you're able to snag a few moments at these stations, you'll see the objects on view in the aesthetic and cultural context of significant artworks, monuments, and movements: Marcel Duchamp's 1913 readymade Roue de bicyclette [Bicycle Wheel]; the Crystal Palace at the 1851 World's Fair; Pop Art's embrace of mass - media messaging.

Marcel Duchamp is usually credited as inventing the readymade, but the essential idea of taking something preexisting and elevating it into art did exist before he created his first one (a bicycle wheel atop a kitchen stool) in 1913: in Pablo Picasso's Still Life With Chair Caning from 1912, for example, the artist collaged a piece of woven chair backing onto a two - dimensional canvas, and before that Degas clothed his Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (1881) in a real tutu.