Sentences with phrase «utopian modernism»

Though art school has certainly evolved from there (with a relationship to painting in general that is worthy of debate in its own right) much of its structure and divisions are based on ideas put forth by individuals religiously committed to the highest ideals of utopian modernism.

Lee Bul's ongoing engagement with utopian modernism pairs perfectly with the democratic aspirations of the Hayward's own adventurous architecture.

A sparse aesthetic vocabulary belies conceptual complexity in the work of Liam Gillick (British, born 1964), in which distilled elements of utopian modernism, power ideology, social interaction, and corporate production make up a constellation of open - ended proposals.

An emerging figure in contemporary art in Vancouver, Allison Tweedie is known for her meticulously constructed collages that make reference to surrealism, utopian modernism and the narratives implicit in photographs.

At the same time, Gillick's design decisions are frequently informed by progressive art movements from earlier eras (De Stijl, the Bauhaus): varieties of functional, utopian modernism that promised a transformed world.

A set of low, sprawling boxes in glass, brick and light wood, it exemplified utopian Modernism and the aspirations of American Jewish communities after the war.

A sparse aesthetic vocabulary belies conceptual complexity in the work of Liam Gillick, in which distilled elements of utopian modernism, power ideology, social interaction, and corporate production comprise a constellation of open - ended proposals.

In its meeting of utopian Modernism, defunct municipal architecture and natural landscape it is also deeply melancholic.

Originally planned as a non-functional airport terminal, the project has evolved into something far less defined, cribbing ideas from playground design, utopian modernism, and psychotherapy.

The exhibition begins with a selection of photographs that were taken in Serbia during the 1990s and explore the failure of utopian modernism under Communism while posing questions about the veneer of normalcy maintained during the civil war and allied bombardment.

Not exact matches

The second cycle of the museum's millennial trilogy focuses on the years between 1920 and 1960, reconsidering utopian visions, the art of social protest, and the backlash against Modernism.

He typically finds the sources for his work within the materials, advertising, and packaging produced by technology and media companies, and often deploys graphic interfaces borrowed from commercial display to highlight connections between the utopian goals of the new media economy and those of historical modernism.

If architecture had long created both humble dwellings and vast urban spaces, Modernism gave its demanding or utopian standards new force.

Probably nothing could detach MoMA from Modernism or Modernism from utopian visions.

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The show plumbs the formal skepticism of late modernism, including works by Dan Graham, Gordon Matta - Clark, and Isa Genzken, drawn from the Generali's own signature collection, and its purview extends to encompass a subsequent generation of artists interested in mining the failed utopian models of the twentieth century for recuperative possibilities: Giuseppe Gabellone, Cyprien Gaillard, Florian Pumhösl, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, and Rob Voerman.

In 1966 he became a founding member of the Archizoom Associati, a group of designers who embraced the fall of modernism to uncover the reality hiding behind an urban utopian dream.

His imagery presents a playful odyssey that references the meta - narratives of art history and is contingent on the juxtaposition of utopian ideals of modernism with the aesthetics of surrealism and conceptual art.

«Abstraction in the visual arts has often been misunderstood through the lens of the historical avant - garde and high modernism, whose utopian ideals of universality and humanism were intertwined with the totalizing ambitions of the social and political projects of Western modernity,» said curator Acevedo - Yates.

Winstanley has long been interested in a particular moment in English post-War architecture: a generic modernism that displays a somewhat dreary interpretation of a utopian vision.

Born in 1982, de Andrade belongs to the generation that challenged the utopian vision of Tropicalismo modernism.

The artist has been exploring the relationship between Modernism and its manifestations in the contemporary via two new bodies of work; Coventry questions Modernism's «utopian promise», deconstructing its power via juxtapositions with post-modern contexts.

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