Sentences with phrase «theatrical installation»

More recently, he produced the musical and theatrical installation Song of Roland: The Arabic Version (2017), for which the titular French verse epic is translated into classical Arabic and sung in the style of the 800 - year - old fidjeri tradition of the pearl divers of the Persian Gulf.

The second theatrical installation involves hooded puppeteers in childish clown - like costumes performing a play from a passage in the Bible where the Jews decide to have Barabbas released instead of Jesus.

Most of the work in the exhibition is digital or photographic, but the artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have created a theatrical installation based on Vice President Dick Cheney's hospitality requirements (as reported on the Web site The Smoking Gun).

Piotr Uklański had a solo show at the Whitney, in 2007, presenting his first film, Summer Love (a booze and blood - soaked revisionist Western); Uklański's work in 2010 is a theatrical installation involving textiles.

This year, Sebastian Duncan - Portuondo (Fiber» 18) and Angela Eastman (Sculpture» 18) collaborated with sound artist Maxime Robillard to create a theatrical installation at DLECTRICITY ™, the festival of art + light sculptures in Detroit.

They included Woo Jae Gil, whose theatrical installation Sound of the Day used music and soundbites from the Kwangju Massacre of 1980; Lee Wen who showed the installation and performance work Journey of a Yellow Man No. 5: Index to Freedom, and Toshihiro Kuno, who exhibited Untitled 1991 — August, made from sandbags, wood, rusted wire and lightbulbs.

An interactive, theatrical installation allows viewers to insert themselves into an open coffin.

Brilliant candy - like colors and nostalgic images overwhelm the senses in this theatrical installation, which offers imaginative new ways of seeing, hearing and participating with the world around us.

This mix of dread and absurdist humor provides an appropriate framework for viewing Alex Da Corte's immersive theatrical installation A Season in He'll at Art + Practice.

Rhoades took the various iconographies and key themes and adapted them to a modern day aesthetic in his theatrical installation, with the baptismal font of the painting becoming a Jacuzzi and the medium (oil paint) reconfigured through the use of motor oil in the work.

Mucha's meticulously constructed sculptures — he often works with industrial materials such as aluminum, float glass, felt, gloss paint, steel, or blockboard — look variously like showcases and display cabinets or like baroque theatrical installations.

The artist has also created numerous theatrical installations involving odd combinations of found objects which he transforms into awkward, puppet - like figures.

The culmination of Free Roses is the aforementioned Lightning — it is one of the most theatrical installations and one that depicts a natural and primordial scene within the arrangement of its elements.

The European Desktop is the third and final work in a series of theatrical installations that grew out of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's performance with architect Frank Gehry for the 1995 Venice Biennale, Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife).

Jonas uses drawings, close - circuit video projections and choreography, while Moran is an American jazz pianist and composer who works in theatrical installations and multimedia art.

After extensive research, the artist builds collections that unite aspects of visual art, literature, music, politics, history, and sociology, and crystallize in sprawling theatrical installations.

The portentous titles, the theatrical installations and the flashy gold costume would be O.K. if they were offered in a more humorous mood.

Internationally acclaimed Texas - based artist Trenton Doyle Hancock is best known for his ongoing narrative and theatrical installations that thrust the viewer literally and figuratively into his personal, idiosyncratic, and, at times, heretical weave of words and images.

A pioneering artist working with sound in South Africa, James Webb often crafts cinematic and theatrical installations and masterly subtle public interventions.

Anna Viebrock's theatrical installations serve as a immersive backdrop for Thomas Demand's photography and Alexander Kluge's films but at the same time anticipate and react to them.

Not exact matches

EDC pushes the boundaries of the imagination, with more than 500 theatrical performers, firework displays, and large - scale interactive art installations.

Sam's most cherished theatrical experience was her work with The Chicago Children's Theatre Company's installation for children with autism and their families titled The Red Kite Project.

At the Paris unveiling, a theatrical space composed of multiple rooms — a high school locker room installation here, a mirrored room featuring Nike's most iconic women's sneakers there — served to showcase the importance of the sportswear firm's women's business and the new concept.

An extensive selection of work from across the world is presented including the World Premieres of William English's HEATED GLOVES and THE HOST, in which director Miranda Pennell delves deeper into her past and her late parents» involvement with the Anglo Iranian Oil Company (BP); Ben Rivers» THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS, the feature element of Ben's current Artangel installation at BBC White City; EVENT FOR A STAGE by Tacita Dean, a filmed presentation of her live theatrical happening in collaboration with actor Stephen Dillane at the 2014 Sydney Biennial; the European Premiere of Omer Fast's REMAINDER, a London - set thriller adapted from Tom McCarthy's acclaimed novel of the same name; the European Premiere of INVENTION which highlights the possibilities of camera movement and the development of artistic apparatus and Kevin Jerome Everson's PARK LANES, set in an American bowling alley over the course of a day.

In the past I've thought a lot about the theatrical element that's needed to make an installation successful.

Ulla von Brandenburg's installations create a theatrical encounter with the viewer, using film, staging, and architecture

For this new installation, Violette continues to mine a rich art historical terrain in which the materials and forms associated with Minimal and Conceptual Art become reactivated as theatrical platforms of performative decay.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition, her performers continuously enact a form of live installation in the gallery and the museum's outdoor spaces, bridging the conceptual and physical divide between performer and object, bystander and viewer, while addressing the ways in which dance and the spectacle of performance are presented in theatrical and exhibition contexts.

Thayer's installations are highly theatrical sight - sound environments featuring handmade backdrops, puppet - like figures, stop - motion collage animations, and vintage audio and image - making equipment.

Works central to this exhibition include the theatrical setting A Fashionable Marriage, through which visitors can walk; 40 small paintings comprising Inside the Invisible, seen for the first time in the UK; and The Feast Wagons, an installation of handcarts.

And although they are geniuses of theatrical mise - en - scene, there are only four large - scale installations here and none of the Kabakov's magnificent films.

Celebrated for his endurance - based performances and video installations, Ragnar Kjartansson incorporates all of the arts — musical, theatrical, literary, filmic, and plastic — into his opulent, ironic, and deeply human works.

The installation concludes with The Tenderness of Maggots, a theatrical adaptation of Comte de Lautréamont's (1846 - 1870) brutal, proto - Surrealist novel Les Chants de Maldoror, re-edited and re-configured for the stage by Studio for Propositional Cinema.

Featuring his multimedia, cinematic installations, with playful animation and tricksy, theatrical filming evocative of early cinema, Kentridge's work tackles themes ranging from revolution and colonialism to loneliness and comic tragedy.

The result is a hybrid installation consisting of the authentic residue of work, and the theatrical amplification of many of these same artifacts.

Meta - narratives, pop and subculture artifacts, religious iconography and a wide breadth of literary references are all present in his multifaceted installations, as well as allusions to art historical antecedents ranging from Basquiat's urban poetry to Sir Howard Hodgkin's abstract paintings as sculptural objects to Jonathan Meese's theatrical symbolism.

Slovenian artist Jasmina Cibic works in performance, installation, and film, employing a range of activity, media, and theatrical tactics to redefine or reconsider the currency and formats of national representation.

In addition to an ongoing program of concerts and theatrical production open to the general public, the Walter Phillips Gallery offers an extensive yearly cycle of stimulating world - class art exhibits and installations.

Like Iglesias's more recent large - scale installations, this early work conjures a theatrical environment, a dream - like fictional world within an existing space.

In his first solo show since the stunning three - hour theatrical work The Humans (2014), Singh offers «The School for Objects Criticized,» a witty light - and - sound installation in which a slinky, an abstract sculpture, and a bottle of bleach are among seven protagonists that critique the artist's latest exhibition; the work takes cues from Molière's The School for Wives Criticized (1663).

It includes a site specific video sculptural installation, SCENES which addresses the spatial quality and atmosphere of a theatrical set - up.

The book accompanies the reader through an imaginary and real itinerary, between history and trickeries, from the installation and performance Hiding the Elephant — referring to the people who «mysteriously» disappeared, who were exiled or persecuted during the Cold War — to the last works of the series Untitled Views — digital prints on mirror in which the artists experiment the theatrical effects of colored smoke bombs.

While the Assembly Instructions take the form of wall installations, they are exemplary of Singh's practice, which includes performances that often take the form of wildly expansive lectures blending fact and fiction or his sculptural installation The School of Objects Criticized, 2010 comprised of mundane objects on pedestals performing a theatrical play.

The spectator is similarly active in Contemplator enim (1992) where a stage set of Plexiglas translucent scenery flats, complete with 18th - century theatrical valets presenting square holes, incorporates visitors into the installation.

Inspired by enigmatic stories about Dan Flavin's 1978 site - specific installation at BAMPFA, Will Brown's MATRIX exhibition includes installations outside BAMPFA's Bancroft Way building, an artist book displayed in UC Berkeley's Morrison Library, and a one - night theatrical production written by poet and playwright Kevin Killian.

Beyond the theatrical appeal, Sze's installations possess a strong pictoriality.

Anthea Hamilton is a UK - based artist who creates multi-media installations that resemble theatrical stages or film sets and incorporate arrangements of prop - like objects, references to modernist paintings, and appropriated images of pop culture icons such as blow - ups of John Travolta in John Travolta, Bust - like, 2012.

The accompanying installation — a surrealistic combination of photographer's studio, casting room, interrogation cell and Beirut beach — is as theatrical as it is sinister.

Adapted by Felix Rothenhäusler and set in a room designed by Jonas von Ostrowski with a light installation by Matthias Singer, The Re'Seach is the first theatrical staging of a text by Ryan Trecartin.

Drawing inspiration from the Earthworks movement, which saw artists such as Walter De Maria, Michael Heizer, and Robert Smithson making site - specific works from the natural landscape, Art on the Beach provided a temporary public venue for site - specific installations that were sculptural, architectural, and theatrical.