Body Building is a group exhibition that examines relationships between the human body and
the urban architectural environment.
Iglesias creates a choreographed simulation of a natural process, the artifice of
the urban architectural environment merges with the simulacra of naturally running water: a subverted fountain no longer maintaing a traditional aesthetic.
Not exact matches
Paolo Soleri has conceived of an alternative form of
urban life in which the
architectural ecology — arcology for short — would promote both justice and the
environment.
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Her
architectural collages, with their multiple layers of bright primary colours, challenge our spatial perceptions and conventional artistic depictions of interior and exterior
urban environments.
Gianna Commito, whose work references
architectural archetypes and
urban development patterns, continues an examination of the organic and unpredictable aspects of the built
environment.
Variations VII was intended to transform an
architectural space, The Armory in New York City, into a broadcast space, in which telecommunications technologies such as radio, television and open telephone lines would bring global media transmissions and the
urban environment of New York into a live performance.
Observations of quotidian,
urban architectural elements and sounds from her Parisian
environment provide the material scaffolding from which she constructs and delicately balances her saturated hues and rectilinear shapes.
Shaw's pieces play with the cyanotype process to create images that evoke
architectural blueprints, while McGhee's pieces collage images and textures from
urban environments.
All the artists share similar productive tensions within their practices: direct or hinted at autobiographical references synthesise with a distant, controlled aesthetic and emotional restraint; the obsolescence of the image is contrasted with the image as a source of hope, and even personal salvation; the apparent stability and naturalness of landscape is set against the
urban environment and modern
architectural practice and its accelerated entropy.
This was achieved by experimenting with size and scale that echo bodily stance and the
architectural proportions of the new
urban environment.