Sentences with phrase «tableaux from»

These excavations of trash include philosopher Barry Allen's tracing of the borderline where thought turns to trash, Susan Coolen's collection of paper airplanes found in the streets of Montreal, and the strange and obsessive project of artist Kristan Horton to recreate tableaux from the film Dr. Strangelove with bits of trash.
BOSTON JOHN O'REILLY HOWARD YEZERSKI GALLERY Miniaturist John O'Reilly has been constructing montages since the late»60s, creating photographic tableaux from pictures and props that he...
The unconventional shape of the image is the result of photographing these shadow tableaux from extreme angles and then restoring a frontal view after the fact.
He weaves together poetic tableaux from objects and images generally regarded as ephemeral, accidental, or discarded.

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«Implementing Corporate Strategy: From Tableaux de Bord to Balanced Scorecards.»
The twenty tableaux vivants are atrocious beyond my power to describe; they are all scenes from the Old Testament and Apocrypha, linked by dubious typology to incidents in the Passion of Christ.
The open, bright tableaux of Spain practically gives the audience a tan along with Winstone, a breathability in spatial configuration that perfectly mirrors Gal and company's emotional detachment from the past.
There's room for nuance aplenty in Lincoln, and Tony Kushner's screenplay manages to draw ambiguity from a number of situations (the Lincolns» marriage, Mary Todd's sanity, Lincoln's political tactics, the toll of the War in its last days), but Spielberg steamrolls opportunities for resonance in favour of ossified gallery tableaux meant to buff a story already polished to a blinding sheen.
She is the founder of the Verdi Club, a ladies» music appreciation society whose fundraising spectacles always feature Florence at the center of their final tableaux vivants, sometimes bedecked with wings, gingerly lowered from the rafters on wires.
Each is hatched from that particular litter of crowd - pleasing, tear - jerking, golden - hued nostalgia operas that endlessly recycle the same batch of story conveniences and stock characters in pursuit of frozen tableaux and over-scored, broadly - telegraphed climaxes.
Butch as outcast is the better statement between he and Will Munny on how time transforms our heroes into villains — and A Perfect World speaks of loss in a series of tableaux ripped from the covers of all those fraying, yellowing editions of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.
Even Selma is usually included in tableaux of spectators blind to Brooks's infidelity, the better to prohibit victimhood from localizing itself.
Lubezki's win from the latter body was shared with War Horse's Janusz Kamiński, who, despite being dissed by the American Society of Cinematographers (they shrewdly gave his spot to Hoyte van Hoytema for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), will likely see his throwback tableaux and battles royal compete in the big race.
Roger Deakins's cinematography is a marvel, with a number of tableaux (note the final rape inside a projection booth, for instance) lit so subtly and skillfully that it doesn't seem as if there's any light at all but for some mysterious glow emanating from the sides of the actors» faces.
Presented as a series of nearly static tableaux's, with stunning cinematography from Jerzy Palacz, Shirley: Visions of Reality is an experimental tour - de-force.
But such relatively commercial ventures were interspersed with the more personal work which increasingly occupied Akerman's attention, as in D'Est (From The East, 1993), an impressionist documentary of life in the former Soviet Union after the collapse of the Communist regime, composed in a series of static tableaux in Akerman's signature, contemplative style.
As the end credits roll on «Calvary» there is a series of images of the spaces from the film devoid of people — empty tables and open tableaux.
But the situation is more dire than that: from the washed - out blacks to the bland colours to the soft detail, this is such weak tea that it scarcely suggests HiDef; it's a thoroughly unexceptional image apart from a few beautifully - rendered sun - dappled tableaux.
By various intervals — always compact, but ranging from five minutes to a little over a half - hour — the author guides us through a single day, opening windows and doors to historic tableaux (both public and private) wherein human beings have demonstrated ingenuity and grace in giving substance to the flow of time, effectively killing time's passage by investing it with meaningful stuff.
He established parameters, but the sort of work that was emerging was uniquely its own, something separate from his independent work, which has consisted mainly of folk - art - inflected Neo - Surrealist tableaux.
By the time Untitled III was featured with three other paintings of the «Untitled series» (I, IV) in the 1981 Whitney Biennial, it was clear that Untitled III was among the most scintillating of the master's tableaux, a «landscape» from a catalytic moment in his by - then five - decade long career.
Born in Belfast in 1966, Wilkes trained at the Glasgow School of Art and began exhibiting in the 1990s with peers like Susan Philipsz, Richard Wright, and Martin Boyce, though her mannikin - filled tableaux are unlike anything else from that milieu.
Their tableaux of twentieth - century ruin take on everything from the fast - food industry to our culture's preoccupation with war and violence.
He pioneered a new technique, creating life - sized sculptures from plaster — using his family and friends as living molds — often setting figures in tableaux with found objects.
Using studio sets, collage, and re-photography, she produces intricate tableaux that draw from magazine advertisements, postcards, or catalogs.
With nearly 100 color reproductions of these works, this volume provides an overview of Drew's four - decade career, from the dramatic sculptures and installations of the 1980s and the enormous wall tableaux of the 1990s to the more fragile paper casts of the past decade.
This exhibition affords a fascinating look at the output of some of South Africa's major artists, and will also showcase from our Johannesburg spaces works not yet shown in Cape Town, including Kudzanai Chiurai's Revelations, a series of photographic tableaux exploring politics and power in Africa, new wood sculptures by Willem Boshoff, and a selection of drawings, linocut graphics and sculpture by William Kentridge.
This year's pilgrimage to Marfa on the occasion of Chinati's 25th Anniversary Weekend was well worth the effort, not only for the main events, but for the many other surprises, some in unconventional venues like Tableaux Parisiens, an exhibition of art from and about Paris in an old church called The Do Right Hall, Patrick Keesey at the Marfa Country Clinic, Valerie Arber at the Thunderbird Lodge, and Charles Mary Kubricht at The Marfa Book Company.
For more than a century, photographers have dealt with the spaces of their studios in strikingly diverse and inventive ways: from using composed theatrical tableaux (in photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron or Cindy Sherman) to putting their subjects against neutral backdrops (Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe); from the construction of architectural sets within the studio (Francis Bruguière, Thomas Demand) to chemical procedures conducted within the darkroom (Walead Beshty, Christian Marclay); and from precise recordings of motion (Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton) to playful, amateurish experimentation (Roman Signer, Peter Fischli and David Weiss).
Curated by Brussels - based collective Bunk Club, the installation consisted of four new figurative wall reliefs, cast from acrylic - modified gypsum and arranged in a narrative tableaux, reading across the gallery as a life - size frieze.
With an enduring «capacity for inspiring genuine delight as well as provoking disquiet,» 3 examples in Western cultures range from the satyrs in Greco - Roman mythology to early medieval church gargoyles to Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1490 — 1500), Peter Paul Rubens's two versions of The Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1611 — 1612 and c. 1638), William Blake's Nebuchadnezzar (c. 1795 — 1805), and Goya's The Disasters of War (1810 — 1820) and Black Paintings (1820 — 1823), in which strange creatures, disembodied heads, and diabolical tableaux meet masterful artistic skill and poignant existential resonance.
The artist has now shifted his focus from photography to making large digital tableaux in which swirling brushstrokes mix with and partially obscure images of contorted, fragmented bodies.
This exhibition brings together the large - scale tableaux of three American artists from different generations, each with a different perspective on black culture and its representation.
Once a Literature major, Cwynar ultimately chose images over words and today — through scanning, re-photographing, and collaging — she creates tableaux and sculptural photographs from materials ranging from deconstructed darkroom manuals to a reproduction of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907).
A selection of works from the past two years goes on view in Zurich, including the first photograph from her 1995 four - part Five Revolutionary Seconds, in which interiors shot with a 360 - degree panoramic lens serve as the backdrop for tableaux fraught with psychological and sexual tension.
The additive and subtractive process of painting allows me to invent characters to perform distilled tableaux on themes ranging from gender identity, power, sexuality, and relationships.
Casebere gained renown as a pioneer of a type of constructed photographic tableaux, which derive exclusively from meticulously planned architectural models that he conceives, fabricates, and photographs in his studio.
The SCAD Museum of Art presents Jane Alexander: Surveys (from the Cape of Good Hope), the first major North American survey exhibition of site - specific tableaux, sculptures and photomontages by South African artist Jane Alexander.
The works in the exhibition range from paintings marked by «water stains» resembling the patina of vintage photographs to Foulkes» tableaux paintings, which are constructed on a massive scale, exhaustingly carved into with a sandblaster, collaged with plaster, paint, and found objects (such as two Coke cans, an American flag, and a tree branch in «Lost Horizon,» 1991).
Anthony Goicolea continues to push his fantastic photographic tableaux, maneuvering from the wildly complex multiple self - portraits that he perfected in the previous decade to conceptual territories of displacement and alienation in unpopulated hybrid landscapes.
Bob and Roberta Smith creates brightly coloured text - based paintings with powerful social messages; Yinka Shonibare clads figures in colourful batik to create politically loaded sculptural or photographic tableaux; Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's leading designers, whose Olympic Cauldron fired the imagination of viewers in the opening ceremony in 2012; Rebecca Warren fuses everything from the ideas of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys to the cartoons of Robert Crumb, creating vitrines and lumpy sculptural figures; Conrad Shawcross brings engineering and sculpture into collisions of mechanics, sound, light and space; and Louisa Hutton, of architects Sauerbruch Hutton, designs buildings with a flair for colour and material richness.
The show will explore the entire scope of the artist's career, including early cartoons and drawings; his macabre, emotionally - charged paintings of the early 1960s; his epic rock and postcard paintings of the late 1960s and early 1970s; his «bloody head» series of mutilated figures from the late 1970s through the present; and his social commentary paintings targeting corporate America, which include his narrative tableaux that combine painting with woodworking, found materials, and thick mounds of modeling paste, seamlessly blended into the painted surface to create a remarkable illusion of depth.
I would like to use my time at the Penumbra Foundation to build and photograph a series of tableaux using material from the surrounding area and experimenting with a variety of approaches to image construction.
Akomfrah's period tableaux — men and women in Victorian garb, posed stiffly in leaky Southern Gothic interiors — seem culled from Bolden's disturbed subconscious.
Image: Live From the Inside: Tableaux Vivant TV at QUAY restaurant, Biennale of Sydney Director David Elliot, artist Christian Jankowski, and COFA Dean Professor Ian Howard
The exhibition begins with a number of photographs from the series with which Bustamante made his name: Tableaux.
Transforming these unintentional tableaux, Gallery references the masterful paintings from American abstract expressionism and French décollage art of the 1960's Nouveau Réalisme movement.
With her cut - out tableaux of funny, engaging figures, the liveliness of her line and her social commentaries, Himid has made two exceptionally popular UK shows in recent months, as well as in a major exhibition of radical black art from the 1980s at Nottingham Contemporary.
Patrick Lakey's flatly lit blend of still life and (nude) self - portraiture, from a series in which he plays dozens of characters from the Marquis de Sade's writings, caught hold of me at The Happy Lion's booth; at Madrid's Travesia Cuatro, Gonzalo Lebrija's intimate communion between himself, wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, and the lone red canvas in a selection of On Kawara «Date Paintings» brought out the latent melancholy in any notation of time; and at Cherry and Martin, Elad Lassry's small - scale conceptual tableaux possessed at once a fierce confidence and an estranging oddness.
Tableaux Pictures Photographs — Works from 1996 - 2013.
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