Sentences with phrase «reference utopian ideals»
Even collage works such as Untitled (Second Stage Injector), 1963, and Algae, Algae, c. 1961 - 63, like the aforementioned sculptures, employ humor and psychedelic imagery to reference utopian ideals and the drug - induced haze of 1960s counterculture.
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From Many, One, From Anyone, is a site - specific project for We the People, which references utopian and contradictory American ideals, pedagogy, socialization, and protest.
This year's shortlist consists of Knut Henriksen, whose dominating sculptures reference modernist architecture, utopian ideals and pragmatic solutions with dazzling visceral results; Vibeke Tandberg who has filled a room with among other things, 119 plaster casts of freezer doors as a comment on recycling; Lars Lauman who has crammed a room with ephemera from an era that seemed chemically obsessed, including E.T dolls and archival science material on acid attacks; while Mattias Härenstam has set up a pulley that drags a birch tree branch around the exterior of a room, blocking people from entering or exiting the doorway.
His imagery presents a playful odyssey that references the meta - narratives of art history and is contingent on the juxtaposition of utopian ideals of modernism with the aesthetics of surrealism and conceptual art.