Sentences with phrase «with contemporary consumerism»

The installation juxtaposed the history of commerce in pre-colonial Africa with contemporary consumerism and features a colorfully printed garment, gilded shopping cart and editioned prints and wallpaper displayed in a glass vitrine made to look like a shop window.

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So much that is wrong with contemporary Western society — radical individualism, consumerism, the glorification of choice for its own sake — represents the debased enactment of originally rich religious images and philosophical ideas.

With humour and ultra-saturated colours, Martin Parr's images critique the contemporary culture of consumerism.

Presented in tandem with his monumental outdoor sculpture Playboy Marfa, which will be installed outside Dallas Contemporary, Phillips's first U.S. solo museum exhibition will feature both past and new works that emphasize his career - long exploration of political and social identity, consumerism, eroticized desire and social constructs.

Hye Rim has developed and evolved her animated character TOKI, which parodies the obsession with beauty created by phallic motivations in cyber culture and gaming, with the work referencing critical contributions from contemporary mythology, psychoanalysis, technology, cybernetics, aesthetics, plastic surgery, feminism, consumerism and eroticism.

Within the Azimuth group emerged a reflection on the relationships that tie information, consumerism and communication, which I find particularly relevant in understanding how many younger contemporary artists are dealing with the overload of information in the digital age.

Great chronicler and one of the most incisive commentators of the contemporary society and culture, Grayson Perry combines his subversive art with autobiographical references from his childhood and family to transvestite alter ego Claire, making distorted commentary on class, taste, consumerism, and art versus craft.

Through surreal pop - vocal performances, Vogds toys with contemporary notions of camp, trend, and queer consumerism.

Friedman's similarly brimming ode to consumerism and obesity — those soda cans are actually cardboard that Friedman has metallicized and screen - printed with her copies of famous logos — brings a contemporary ruin to mind.

The group's ideas echoed those of their American contemporaries Jasper Johns (b. 1930) and Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008), the early pioneers of Pop art, who were also experimenting with how to engage with the new consumerism.

Replacing classical icons with symbols of contemporary pop culture such as taco trucks, canned beans, and an alter ego named Spaztek, Ortiz's work maintains a tense relationship with consumerism and his heritage.

Her struggles with the mundane, the eclectic and the disposable, offer a unique perspective on the relationship between spirituality and consumerism in contemporary society.

Together with a group of young artists — including Robert Longo, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler — Sherman was critical about contemporary image culture and the rise of image consumerism that both drove emerging mass media like television and was celebrated in it.

The third floor takes Pop art as its focal point, with works from the 1960s installed within the context of a range of historical and contemporary developments, including those that address urbanism, consumerism, appropriation, and politics.

This concluding exhibition is the last of a series of interconnected shows spanning 2016, which has seen the Gallery take a nostalgic journey through some of its curatorial highlights from the past 50 years, presenting works from across this span of time and recontextualising them with contemporary works of art and the present day; highlighting everything from globalisation, temporality, consumerism, consciousness, the body, and cultural identity.

In the NY Sun, Stephen Maine reports that Dieter Roth's work possesses some of the neo-Dada characteristics of Pop art, but is «as enmeshed with dissolution and decay as his American contemporaries were smitten with antiseptic consumerism.

Presented in tandem with his monumental outdoor sculpture, Playboy Marfa, which will be installed outside Dallas Contemporary in March, Phillips» exhibition will feature both past and new works that emphasize his career - long exploration of political and social identity, consumerism, eroticized desire and social constructs.