For Zhu, an attraction to the communal aspects of Joseph Beuys (who, not unlike Mao, sought to erase the line between aesthetic and social movements) caused a shift to
social sculpture using common materials: stacked piles of rice paper, teapots, bicycles, and soy sauce bottles.
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Opening: Cosima von Bonin at Petzel Cosima von Bonin's conceptual
sculpture and installation work has long investigated
social relationships
using a touch of humor.
The artist's slumpies series of ergonomic
sculptures are designed for this contemporary moment in which physical posture, and thereby
social engagement, are ontologically inseparable from increased technology
use.
Working with artist Jenny Moore, participants
used Pascale Marthine Tayou's
sculptures as the starting point for a playful investigation of the
social life of objects.
Larry Rinder: You have
used Joseph Beuys» term «
social sculpture» to describe your work.
Of course, the rise of black - owned spaces has impact far beyond the market, and many prominent non-profit spaces, such as Rick Lowe's Houston - based Project Row Houses and artist Mark Bradford's Los Angeles - based Art + Practice, are positioned as «
social sculpture,» an expanded concept of art coined by the German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys, who sought to
use art to address societal issues.
Since the early 2000s the artist has explored the
social and cultural implications of political acts through painting,
sculpture, installation, and performance — both live and filmed —
using himself as protagonist, proxy, and test subject.
Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting,
sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in
social and cultural space —
using found objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colors.
Heidrun Holzfeind
uses photography, documentary video and
sculpture to explore individual and collective narratives that reveal the concept of identity as a
social construct dependent on cultural and socio - economical circumstances.
Establishing a virtuous circle between fine art and
social progress, Gates strips dilapidated buildings of their components, transforming those elements into
sculptures that act as bonds or investments, the proceeds of which are
used to finance the rehabilitation of entire city blocks.
Printing her images on cotton, Soleimani creates soft, weighted
sculptures based on bobo dolls
used in psychologist Albert Bandura's 1961 «Bobo Doll Experiment» on observational psychology and
social learning theories.
Known to
use video, installation, drawing and
sculpture to explore architecture, sexuality, gender and power, Bonvicini continually circles back to
social, political and economic questions.
Intrigued by the philosophy of «the impermanence of things,» she
uses video, installation and
sculpture to question
social systems, the meaning of civilisation and the decline of society.
EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / READINGS (* solo or two - person) Apparatus for a Utopian Image 2.0, Center and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Prague, 2018 CV, YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2017 * Artist's Rendering (DISTRESSED, RELAXED), AXENÉO7, Quebec, 2017 * You can tell that i'm alive and well because I weep continuously, Knockdown Center, New York, 2017 Apparatus for a Utopian Image, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2016 Self - Titled (Materials for a 21st Century Room — or SWAMPED, EXHAUSTED, HESITATING), 8 - 11, Toronto, 2016 * Self - Titled (w / Aryen Hoesktra & Shane Krepakevich), Modern Fuel, Ontario, 2016 Local Tide (curated by PARALLELOGRAMS and Francesca Capone), S1, Portland OR, 2016 Double Visions, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2015 From Line to Constellation, Granoff Center, Providence, 2015 Maximum Sideline: Postscript, Proxy, Providence, 2015
Use Values, SPRING / BREAK Art Show, New York, 2015 An Earthquake at the Race Tracks, Museo de la Cuidad, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, 2014 Classroom, NY Art Book Fair, PS1, New York, 2014 Almost Everything, Eric Arthur Gallery, Toronto, 2014 Milieu, Skol Centre des Arts Actuel, Montreal, 2013 * More Than Two (Let It Make Itself)[w / Josh Thorpe], The Power Plant, Toronto, 2013 Cultural Fluency, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, 2013 Sediment, G Gallery, Toronto, 2012 Survive.Resist, CAFKA Biennial, Kitchener - Waterloo, Canada, 2011 On Printed Matter, [w / Josh Thorpe], Printed Matter, New York, 2011 * Around YYZ [w / Josh Thorpe], YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2010 - 11 * House Broken, Flux Factory, NY 2010 Reading the Garden [w / Josh Thorpe], Toronto
Sculpture Garden, Toronto, 2010 * Titles, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2009 On Convenience [w / Josh Thorpe], Convenience Gallery, Toronto, 2009 * Vehicle [organized by WayUpWayDown curatorial collective], Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2008 ERI 3: Eyelevel Re-Shelving Initiative, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2008 AT WORK, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, 2007 Rip Current, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2007 Tales from the Cyclop's Library, Third Space Gallery, Saint John, 2007 Unsurprising Geographies [w / Andrea Williamson], Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2006 Alectric 3, Alectric Audio [online exhibition] 2006 a / s / l, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, 2006 * RESIDENCIES Interrupt 3, Brown University, Rhode Island 2015 SHIFT, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2014 - 15 Artist - in - Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2013 - 14 Visiting Scholar, NYU Advanced Media Studio, 2013 - 14 The Decapitated Museum, The Banff Centre, 2012 Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, The Banff Centre, 2008 AWARDS Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation, 2018 - 19 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — The Decapitated Museum, 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2009 University of Toronto, Graduate Fellowship, 2007 - 09
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2007 - 08 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, 2008 University of Toronto, David Buller Memorial Scholarship, 2007 NSCAD University, Simon Chang and Phyllis Levine Foundation Scholarship, 2006 New Brunswick Arts Board, Arts Scholarship, 2005 WRITING «Panorama of Our,» Plot, Claudia Weber, ed., 2015 «Anodyne: or X of Demarcation,» Rearviews II, Xenia Benivolski & Danielle St - Amour, eds., 2014 «On Printed Matter» Artefact:, C Magazine C122, 2014 «Lana Turner Has Collapsed!
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (born 1961 and 1969, Denmark and Norway): «Any structure can be altered, exchanged or interchanged»: since their series of installations and
sculptures called powerless structures the two artists had been working with space and its multiple meanings: mental,
social, architectural, public, etc, questioning notions of power that lay behind any
use of space.
Philip Aguirre y Otegui makes
sculptures, paintings, drawings, collages, prints and installations
using traditional materials to engage with contemporary politics and the
social condition, often reflecting a profound sense of human tragedy.
Investigating the two artists» paintings and
sculpture of this significant decade, the presentation examines their formal and material experimentations, and their
use of abstraction to convey artistic,
social, and political commentary.
[4] Inspired by the concept / model of Joseph Beuys
social sculpture, that have the potential to transform society, ART / MEDIA was an extended artwork that included human interactions, creating structures and systems within society
using language, thought, objects, events and actions.
Dad displays recent work by Danish artist Jakob S. Boeskov, who
uses filmmaking, drawing,
sculpture, and performance to expose complex
social issues such as male behavior, war, politics, biotechnology, and globalization.
Why: Colombian born, Los Angeles - based artist Rodney McMillian creates
sculptures, paintings, room - sized constructions, videos and performances that explore class, economic status, culture, race, gender and history in the U.S, sometimes
using sci - fi imagery to mine the unraveling of
social justice in our country.
Largely drawing on themes that are present in Joseph Beuys work, and to be more specific his pioneering concept of
social sculpture, money and universal basic income, we will
use his figure to discuss the future of art and the future of art / artist / author / performer, post-capitalism.
She creates ethereal
sculptures using throwaway materials — such as toilet paper and newspapers — to explore the frailty of identity, position and
social standing.
Having roots in the
social sculpture of Joseph Beuys, Bajo
uses actual human beings as her material such as found objects, sourced through friends of friends, as part of a «found human» organic process.
He
uses photography,
sculpture, video and installation to address
social issues.
Drawing on the Grand Unification Theory in quantum physics, techniques
used in biodynamic agriculture and permaculture, Joseph Beuys» concept of «
Social Sculpture,» the WWII maxim «Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, or Do Without,» and Buckminster Fuller's idea that «To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete,» Santoro proposes a hybrid approach to current social and environmental challenges that invites participation and collaboration from her audi
Social Sculpture,» the WWII maxim «
Use It Up, Wear It Out, Make It Do, or Do Without,» and Buckminster Fuller's idea that «To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete,» Santoro proposes a hybrid approach to current
social and environmental challenges that invites participation and collaboration from her audi
social and environmental challenges that invites participation and collaboration from her audiences.
Rejecting the traditional passive way of viewing art, West creates pieces as
social experiences, as in his «Adaptives,» started in the 1970s, small
sculptures meant to be picked up and carried around, and chairs, lamps, and tables that can be moved and
used.
Jessica Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting,
sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in
social and cultural space -
using found objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colours.
Influenced by German artist Joseph Beuy's concept of «
social sculpture» and «the enlarged conception of art,» Lowe
uses community and locale as key components of his artistic practice.
In recognizing the tension between both the allure and threat of new technologies — from
social media to affective computing — the artists in this exhibition address the morphing body by way of the body,
using performance, video, painting, and
sculpture to investigate its physical and cognitive adaptations.
Since the mid-1990s, the Danish - born, Berlin - based artist Henrik Olesen has
used collage,
sculpture, and spatial intervention to investigate the
social construction of identity and its historiography.
Some apply Joseph Beuys» concept of the «
social sculpture,» to their work by
using the creative activity of non-artists as Roman Ondák does in Passage, (2004).
She works in the liminal region between
sculpture and glassmaking to explore the possibility of creating multi-layered messages and metaphors through the
use of material, drawing on her doctoral research on the legacy of Joseph Beuys and his ideas on
social sculpture.
Andre Komatsu is a Brazilian artist based in Sao Paulo, known for his
sculptures and installations that
use architectural and design forms to critique prevalent
social orders.
London - based Argentine artist Amalia Pica
uses sculpture, performance art, photography, installation, slide projections, and drawing to create works that explore forms of communication, metaphor, and
social engagement, with a particular interest in moments of failure, slippage, and mistranslation.
«Matthew wanted to have more pictorial things that weren't necessarily just for cats, so the show got very aesthetic, but it's really more of a
social sculpture that
uses art as a conduit for rescue.»
Manglano - Ovalle's technologically sophisticated
sculptures and video installations
use natural forms such as clouds, icebergs, and DNA as metaphors for understanding
social issues such as immigration, gun violence, and human cloning.
Tufiño's photographic compositions, prints, videos, installations and
sculptures, give a new meaning to post-studio practices and the
use of
social debris in our time.
Using social media, public art in the form of a
sculpture, and video documentation, the project is Roescheisen's first to transfer art and digital media into a peace dialogue on the global stage.
Her practice encompasses the
use of a wide range of media, from
sculpture to painting and textiles; in particular, she explores elements of chance, nature, memory, language, geography and
social interactions.
Kazuo Shiraga, for example, painted massive canvases
using only his feet, while Atsuko Tanaka
used household or found technologies for her blend of performance,
sculpture, and
social commentary, as she did with Electric Dress.
Abraham Cruzvillegas (b. 1968, Mexico City) is an artist and writer who works predominantly in
sculpture,
using found materials to explore specific local areas in a
social and economic context.
Comprised of three monumental bronze figures, the
sculptures synthesize Ernst's iconic
use of language and sharp witticism that in turn transcend personal significance and make pointed commentary on the modern
social and political climate.
Reveling in the suburban panic punctuated by an hysterical self - help culture, compulsion toward decoration, and docudramatic tragedy, Josh Faught's current work
uses elements of textiles, collage,
sculpture, and painting to triangulate between a space that negotiates the history of textiles, a
social / political history, and personal history.
Occupying both
social and solitary spaces, these ghost - like
sculptures sit at mute attention, implying the
use of bodies and pointing to the crafted labor of their fabrication.
The exhibition centres on the artist's assemblages made from
used jerry cans, a part of his extensive work that includes performance, photography, painting,
sculpture and
social practice.
An outspoken human rights activist, Ai Weiwei infuses his
sculptures, photographs, and public artworks with political conviction and personal poetry, often making
use of recognizable and historic Chinese art forms in critical examinations of a host of contemporary Chinese political and
social issues.
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