Sentences with phrase «with giant sculpture»

Mr. Serota branched out further into the regions, and into a former power station that became Tate Modern; opened its 260 million pounds ($ 337 million) extension, (now named after the billionaire donor Len Blavatnik) that drove total visitors to Tate Modern to a record 6.39 million; and helped popularize contemporary art with giant sculpture commissions inside Tate Modern's Turbine Hall and with the hotly debated Turner Prize competition.

Known for brilliantly manipulating scale with his giant sculptures of furniture and household objects, Therrien presents a new show (his first in a decade in New York) featuring three free - standing rooms.

Not exact matches

David Rogers» Big Bugs exhibit of giant sculptures has returned to the arboretum for the summer, along with bug programs designed just for kids.

With a history of towering turbines, massive crystalline sculptures, and even giant seahorses, we've become accustomed to the fact that designer Karl Lagerfeld's runway is never just an ordinary runway.

It is also filled with giant ponds, waterfalls, and sculptures that all add to the naturalistic beauty of the place.

As it turned out, we were treated to a wonderfully rich Socratic Seminar on the virtues of the space race, a culminating activity for the module that began six weeks ago with Galileo and, during the intervening weeks, had students read Brian Floca's Moonshot and Robert Burleigh's One Giant Leap (both award winners) while exploring a NASA video, mixed media fine art, sculpture, JFK speeches, and more.

Houston even has its own bit of quirk to compete with Austin, including the Art Car Parade and an outdoor sculpture exhibit featuring giant heads of U.S. presidents.

From June to September you can swim with giant Whale Sharks and anytime of the year is great to swim in the National Park that's filled with the MUSA Underwater Sculpture Museum's sculptures.

A magical aura runs through the property, with rare items â $ «from real barong costumes to life - size sculptures and giant Chinese vases â $ «adorning its lobby, gardens and dining outlets.To enhance the timeless quality of Hotel Tugu, black - and - white portraits of scenes from age - old Bali hang inside the rooms.Located in Canggu, far from the crowds on the outlying northern fringe of Kuta and Seminyak, the secluded coastal location adds mystery and appeal to the charming layout.Tugus open spaces are fitted with premium - quality teakwood furniture, and the wealth of antiques in its decor reflects the passion of its owner, an eminent art collector from Malang, East Java.

This eight - foot sculpture depicts a series of human forms, with different animal heads, clinging to the branches of a giant bonsai and looking at the moon.

It started with Louise Bourgeois's giant sculpture.

The sculpture is a giant hand in a thumbs - up gesture, and with a really long thumb at that, must mean that something, somewhere, is really good.

Aaron Curry is known for biomorphic sculptures in the hot, artificial colours of cartoons or sportswear, where references to modernist giants such as Miró and Picasso collide with the virtual worlds of computer games and movies.

This summer, the object - a phallus combined with a rough - hewn sword handle - was scaled - up to create a giant concrete sculpture which is currently on view upstairs at Whitechapel Gallery.

Charlie Clarke, Ron Mueck's long - time exhibition manager, is in conversation with the Modern's Senior Curator, Andrea Karnes as they discuss the work and career of Ron Mueck, from his first acclaimed sculpture, Dead Dad, to his most recent installation of 100 giant skulls, Mass, with a particular focus on the works in the Modern's exhibition Ron Mueck.

Titled Uraeus, the sculpture appears as a giant open book with eagle's wings that span 30 feet atop a stainless steel column.

At each location, The Collective invites people to sit inside The Truth Booth (a giant, inflatable sculpture in the shape of a cartoon speech bubble with the word «Truth» printed on the side) and complete the sentence, «The truth is...» while being videotaped.

Altmejd's diverse and varied oeuvre includes his familiar platform - like structures punctuated by mirrored reliquaries of crystals, flowers, birds, and werewolf bodies and body parts, an inventive assortment of singular werewolf heads, clear Plexiglas boxes filled with an intricate tracery of gold chains, his spectacular aviary filling the Canadian Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale, uncanny part - bird part - human sculptures, a sculptural clock representing the temporal process of its making, and most recently colossal giants.

Anderson's work indicatively occupies the low floor, making giants of the viewer; her sculptures (like stage sets viewed from the «gods») combine arcane folk narratives, playful characterizations and linear structures sourced from video and arcade games, combined with reflections of contemporary urban malaise.

Giant sculptures of tulips, a pumpkin, dogs and a doll are located in the gallery's canal - side garden and ground floor exhibition space, along with new paintings, creating a surreal inside - out...

At the end, the group will combine all the forms into one giant sculpture that is inflated with a simple fan.

Giant sculptures of tulips, a pumpkin, dogs and a doll are located in the gallery's canal - side garden and ground floor exhibition space, along with new paintings, creating a surreal inside - out landscape of nature and artifice.

There were large photos of things I had made, including Leisure Centre, and some very silly sculptures: a child - sized coffin with a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles relief on it, a giant hurdle called The First Hurdle, and a giant walnut whip that had a little door in it.

The show encompasses work from his famous Passstücke (or «Adaptives», from the 1970s — bizarre shapes and objects made from plaster and metal which invite the audience to pick them up and interact), through his beguiling Das Geraune («Murmuring», 1988), a collection of three giant papier - mâché forms with holes for mouths, to the enormous outdoor sculptures in aluminium and epoxy resin he conceived from 1996.

Guests were treated to a special performance of his Ada robot with Mira Calix and a giant tetrahedral cake in the shape of one of Shawcross» sculptures.

Another key work is Luciano Fabro's striking sculpture Piede (Foot), with its startling contrast between a giant, claw - like polished bronze foot and its thin, light, towering column of radiant blue silk reaching to the ceiling (illustrated right, estimate: # 800,000 - 1,200,000).

Bernhardt explains, «When constructing the show, I envisioned a giant fish bowl tank, with giant Jurassic objects, paintings, and soft sculptures.

Leckey's interests might have shifted throughout the last decade — from an obsession with pop culture, subculture and the figure of the dandy in earlier films such as Parade (2003), and in his band collaboration DonAteller, with fellow artists Ed Laliq, Enrico David and Bonnie Camplin; to the high / low culture face - off of his BigBoxStatueAction performances (2003 — 11), in which Leckey's giant speaker stack confronts icons of modernist British sculpture, such as Jacob Epstein's Jacob and the Angel (1940 — 1); to his later multimedia performance lectures, the Internet - driven epiphany of dematerialisation In the Long Tail (2009) and its antithesis Cinema - in - the - Round (2006 — 8), with its more reflective inquiry into the physicality of images via, among others, Philip Guston, Felix the Cat, Gilbert & George, Homer Simpson and Titanic (1997).

Childhood and suburbia have remained insistent themes, infused with clear memories the artist has «carried with him,» and remade into sculpture, whether washing peaches in the giant, basin - like sink in the basement of his childhood home or going to the beach as a child and splashing in the water.

In addition to paintings, Applebroog has also created sculptures; artist's books; several films (including a collaboration with her daughter, the artist Beth B); and animated shorts that appeared on the side of a moving truck and on a giant screen in Times Square.

Tribe uses constructed steel to make sculptures that have a feeling of totemic obsession and pre-industrial roughness, from tiny amulets formed of bolts and other metal scraps to a giant bent phallus with two heads.

Fellow Glaswegian Karla Black's giant, scrunched - up balls of chalked - over sugarpaper also proved popular, with Halifax - born Hilary Lloyd's sculpture - cum - film work the outside chance.

It will range from very early drawings from his days as a studio assistant to another giant of British sculpture, Henry Moore — some with scribbled corrections by Moore himself — to jewellery - sized wearable pieces and giant sculptures big enough for visitors to walk into, such as his 1983 wooden sculpture Child's Tower Room.

Across town, in a fascinating group show at White Cube in Hoxton, featuring work inspired by Edgar Allen Poe, Kiefer has created two signature pieces: a giant vitrine in which a grey, ash - encrusted landscape is overlain with branches; and an installation in the bowels of Shoreditch town hall featuring his sculptures of what look like hospital beds rescued from a nuclear disaster.

The sculpture, called How It Is, is by Miroslaw Balka and is the tenth work in Tate Modern's annual series of Unilever commissions, which began with Louise Bourgeois» giant spider in 2000 and has since included an enormous sun, thousands of boxes and a giant crack in the floor.

In late May, the architect Daniel Libeskind spoke at the New York Gallery Luxembourg & Dayan where he collaborated with Daniella Luxembourg to curate an exhibition of thirteen small sculptural works by some of the giants of early twentieth century sculpture: Alberto Giacometti, Julio González Henri Laurens, Jacques Lipchitz, Henri Matisse, Jean Tinguely, and the less well - known German artist Rudolf Belling.

Some of the best sculptures include the giant white poodle emblazoned with the black Chanel logo, the Louis Vuitton Doberman, and the adorable bulldog in the trademark Burberry check.

She forces the station's ambassador (Dodge as Peter the cameraman) to look at her sculptures, which she keeps in the trunk of her car: a ball jammed into a giant peach and covered with packing tape, a candle stuffed into a plastic bag.

The curator's task, with an exhibition like Dreamscapes, is to balance the existing permanent installations (like Ellsworth Kelly's giant aluminum panel painting and the Aristide Maillol sculpture) with artworks that lend a fresh experience to repeat visits.

Marina Abramovic's former lover and partner ULAY will perform in New York for the first time since 1986, Martin Creed's giant neon sculpture will illuminate Brooklyn Bridge Park for the Public Art Fund, and Duke Riley will entice Creative Time fans with a flock of LED equipped pigeons that will fly over the East River in a special performance.

The Primordial Molder, is a continuation of her large - scale ceramic sculpture series that ruminates on the creation myth from Taoist tradition: in the primordial world, Nüwa the Snake Goddess marked the beginning of humanity by patching a giant hole in heaven with five - colored stones, using the legs of a great turtle as pillars to support the collapsed sky from the earth.

Think of the building - to - sculpture playfulness of something like Claes Oldenburg's and Coojse van Bruggen's work, Shuttlecocks, at The Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, where the giant birdies are in dialogue with the museum building as the museum itself becomes the net.

This clean, well - installed exhibition included her wildly patinated bronzes, from small figures to giant heads, with references ranging from painted classical sculpture to Donatello (especially his Mary Magdalen), from the Art Deco designer Erté to Jean - Léon Gérôme.

In Stage and Twist a child drinks a mixture of Pepsi and Coca - Cola, a giant puzzle is played by two half - naked young men, an iconic work by Yves Klein is re-enacted with the artist leaping into the void and hitting the pavement below and a group of workers assemble a monumental sculpture out of scaffolding in an empty field.

With its framed comic, tinned ham sculpture, television, tape recorder and a bodybuilder clutching a giant lolly labelled POP, Hamilton's ideal home was the manifesto of pop art.

Performance Art with Sculpture from the 2016 Turner Prize nominee with her giant bottom, Tate Britain

As part of Conjuring for Beginners the Space Upstairs will become a giant gallery filled with sculpture on an enormous scale, by one of Ireland's most promising young artists Sam Keogh.

Performance Art with Sculpture from the 2016 Turner Prize nominee with her giant bottom, Tate Britain; Charles II: Art & Power, Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace.

With À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds, 2005), a site - specific work created for the Louvre's glass pyramid — the first time a contemporary artist had exhibited in the institution — Tunga used one of the building's columns as a pivot on which various symbolically charged objects were balanced: gold and black skulls and a giant walking stick intertwined with braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the otWith À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds, 2005), a site - specific work created for the Louvre's glass pyramid — the first time a contemporary artist had exhibited in the institution — Tunga used one of the building's columns as a pivot on which various symbolically charged objects were balanced: gold and black skulls and a giant walking stick intertwined with braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the otwith braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the otwith golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the other.

Medium: Sculpture, wax painting Style: Material in motion Superpower: In 1974, Benglis posed naked for an ad in Artforum with a giant dildo and sunglasses, challenging the misogynistic tradition of cover girls.