Sentences with phrase «upon everyday objects»

This group exhibition brings together three artists whose Conceptual practices are marked by ephemeral gestures enacted upon everyday objects and by interventions into overly familiar situations.

The artists draw upon everyday objects and extraordinary events to create light and impalpable images.

Not exact matches

There's a lot of unfortunate, understated horror in the curse put upon the household staff in Beauty and the Beast, dooming them to live out part of their lives not as humans, but everyday objects.

Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century pays tribute to this seminal work and traces the subsequent elaboration of neo-dada practices, with a particular focus upon everyday and vernacular contexts; the mysterious and libidinous potential of sculptural objects; institutional critique and nominal modes of artistic value; pop, minimalism and industrial manufacture.

Within Collis practice, everyday objects and surfaces are presented splattered and stained with the marks of wear and tear, and the viewer might, upon further investigation, realise that the timeworn flecks of paint that cover an old broom, are in fact delicate and precisely inlaid pearls, jasper, turquoise, garnets and black diamonds.

Yet upon further inspection, it is evident that their purposes run parallel; each piece — a stacked pyramid of crumpled rice paper, a pile of woven baskets, archival material and oiled canvases — seems to be the embodiment or reflection of what Zhu has maintained throughout his career, regardless if the media were everyday household items, objects of suburban life, or what the critic Li Tuo has deemed «thick paintings».

She has built up a collection of plain everyday objects upon which she bestows a bizarre, disconcerting life through an intense and risky interaction with her own body to challenge notions of sexuality, technology and the female body.

Upon returning to Europe in the mid-1960s, he began his artistic career exploring aestheticism, everyday objects, and media inspired by digital animations.

Conrad Bakker makes carved and painted sculptures of everyday objects and places them in consumer contexts and / or gallery exhibitions to reveal and critically comment upon the political economies and relational networks between persons and things.

Morton's work reflects upon historical painting and literature, whilst also considering notions of the everyday and alluding to the domestic through her use of found household objects.