The museum invited Ai Weiwei to create a work for the summer exhibition Chinese Summer and the result was
a striking installation of the works Tyres (2016) and Odyssey (2017), which now belongs to the Astrup Fearnley Collection!
Not exact matches
The exhibit will include stunning hyper - realistic
work by Churchill - Johnson — stark political statement contrasted with delicate, minimalist abstraction by Uyesaka — deeply engaging abstract oils by Scorzelli — dynamic and powerful ceramic insights by Rosenberg - Dent — fanciful, abstract adventures by Lehrer — an unsettling mixed - media
installation with video by auto - expressionist, Metrov —
striking figurative vs abstract
works by Ferris — a lively «abolish blandness» painting by Lytle contrasted with fabulous yarn
work from the early 90's — and a pair
of McCracken's, always delightful, miniatures.
Exhibited for the first time as a seven - screen
work, PLAYTIME transforms the whole
of Victoria Miro's upstairs gallery into a
striking and immersive
installation, montaging the
work's protagonists and locations across multiple screens in reference to capital's potential to both facilitate global movement and to create its own barriers.
The ceaseless building
work in Dubai has
struck Amir on every visit and the series
of landscape paintings dotted across the
installation play «with themes
of constructing and deconstructing.
Working with sculpture, video,
installation and painting his recent move into geometric abstraction is a
striking revitalisation
of the discipline.
Photography, sculpture and
installation art are among the featured exhibits and even those people unfamiliar with Enrico David's
work will be immediately
struck by the variance
of the exhibition.
An outspoken critic
of Israeli government policy, Rosen's
work addresses some
of the ethical dilemmas underlying social reality in his native Israel and we are showing two seminal
works, an immersive
installation and a film, alongside a
striking large scale new artwork created especially to cover the entire window façade
of Rivington Place.
The highlight
of this exhibition, and the
work that best exemplifies Bender's famed notion
of «electronic theater,» is Total Recall, 1987 — a
striking eight - channel
installation in a black - box setting
of
PlayTime features three tactile interactive
works, including an immersive balloon room
installation by Turner Prize winner Martin Creed and participatory One Minute Sculptures by internationally renowned artist Erwin Wurm which invite visitors to become part
of the exhibition by
striking and holding unexpected poses with everyday objects.
Wichita architect Dean Bradley designed a
striking gallery
installation to further enhance and set off each
work of art.
Lee Bul presented a
striking body
of work for her recent show, which included an
installation, several individual sculptures, and India ink and acrylic paintings.
The contrast is
striking, not only in materials, production values and dazzling visual spectacle (in which the later
works revel), but also in Rhoades's embrace
of autobiography in his earlier
installations as an organising principle for their overwhelming material excess.
The «Myth» segment
of the exhibition will focus on conceptual artworks and visually
striking installation works by Chinese and international artists.
The contributions also consider such specific
works as Kelly's Interim (1984 — 1989), the subject
of a special issue
of October; Gloria Patri (1992), an
installation conceived in response to the first Gulf War; The Ballad
of Kastriot Rexhepi (2001), an extensive project including a 200 - foot narrative executed in the medium
of compressed lint and the performance
of a musical score by Michael Nyman; and two recent
works, Love Songs (2005 - 2007), which explores the role
of memory in feminist politics, and Mimus (2012), a triptych that parodies the House Un-American Activities Committee's 1962 investigation
of the pacifist group, Women
Strike for Peace.
Thanks to constantly evolving
work in which paint and paper come together to create chromatically
striking installations, he was invited to participate in the 2011 edition
of Pinta New York.
The 4th edition
of Bologna Art First, a
striking and original walk through the most prestigious sites in the city's historical centre, with
installations and
works of art presented by galleries exhibiting at the fair and selected by a specially appointed advisory board, will be offered from 23 January to the end
of February.
, a new body
of work created in direct response to the environment and architecture
of IMMA, and from IMMA's Collection a
striking red neon text
installation, Line Writing, 1994, by Laos born artist Vong Phaophanit.
With its nod to Soviet idealism, the neon
strikes a chord with Magdalena Jitrik's
installation Revolutionary Life (2012), a
work that evokes the idealism
of the Russian avant - garde with a series
of abstract paintings.