Sentences with phrase «tableaux whose»

In her ground breaking series Construct, developed in the late 70s and early 80s and taken with a Polaroid camera, Kasten transformed building materials into tableaux whose composition, style and manipulation of space display a true painterly sensibility.

Working with materials commonly seen as poor, such as plywood, cardboard, paper, tiles, etc., Pernice creates «Gebilde» (formations), assemblages, and sculptural tableaux whose seemingly unstable, enigmatic forms possess a casual charm and evoke a brittle domesticity, as such questioning ideas of permanence and impermanence.

The ceramic work serves as a repository for an elaborate sculptural tableaux whose assembled detritus creates a string of hieroglyphs, a kind of archaeological anagram: encrypted sequences present short bursts of personality and internal logic.

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But it's doubtful that any of this matters much to Kapur, whose primary attention is sweeping overhead shots, massive CGI tableaux, and the distinctive warp and weave of Lizzy's wigs for all occasions.

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.

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.

These uneasy suburban tableaux tell stories whose endings we don't know and probably don't want to know.

Jake and Dinos Chapman are also likely candidates for their concentration camp tableaux for the Apocalypse show at the Royal Academy, and Jeremy Deller, Tacita Dean and Sarah Lucas - whose stuffed - underpants dummies having sex on Sigmund Freud's dining table was the highlight of many critics» year - may also be in the reckoning, although Lucas has turned down at least one nomination in the past.

He was the most politically conscious and satirical of the American artists, a splenetic and grotesque scenarist whose tableaux revile the American dream, mocking postwar affluence with dark echoes of the Depression and an atmosphere of fetid decay.

Mann is also showing mixed - media works mounted on board, including «Figures de mémoire» («Memory Figures,» 2013); several grid - format, multi-component tableaux; and larger - format works in whose expansive compositions her lines and abstract forms loosen up and spread out in what appear to be topographic maps from other worlds.

This is the formidable work of Jessie Brugger, whose sculptures, tableaux, and stop - motion animation bowled me over on Friday night.

Trenton Doyle Hancock works in a baroque grotesque, from portraits whose emetic intricacy recalls George Grosz to centerless, Boschian tableaux.

After Etel Adnan and Carmen Herrera, the latest nonagenarian superstars are Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian — whose Guggenheim retrospective featured impressive geometric drawings and mirrored sculptures — and the polymath Rosalyn Drexler (only 88, to be fair), whose pop tableaux featuring fields of solid colour were paired with more recent Technicolor compositions at Garth Greenan.