Sentences with phrase «with mobile sculpture»

Famous abstract sculptors associated with Constructivism include Vladimir Tatlin, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Alexander Calder, whose name is synonymous with mobile sculpture.

Not exact matches

Poulain convinced BMW to let him commission the late American pop artist Alexander Calder — best known for his whimsical «mobile» kinetic sculptures — to paint a race - prepped BMW 3.0 CSL with 480 horsepower in the artist's signature palette of primary colors.
Sculptured Entertainment's first collaboration is with Wicked Witch Software, who are most well known for their mobile game, Catapult King, which has been downloaded over 30 million times and reached # 1 in over 80 countries.
The inaugural exhibition in 1992 took place at Hauser & Wirth's first gallery, located in the first - floor apartment of an Art Deco villa in the heart of Zurich; it united mobiles and gouaches by Alexander Calder with sculptures and paintings by Joan Miró.
Nancy Jackson's latest exhibition, her sixth with Rosamund Felsen Gallery, was a lighthearted tour de force consisting of seven paper mobiles, at once intricate and majestic, nine works on paper and 12 sculptures.
Naum Gabo was also the first artist to lay foundations for a kinetic sculpture, but Alexander Calder took this idea to another level with his «mobiles».
Won by the terrific Helen Marten, who split the winnings with her fellow contenders, the Hepworth sculpture prize exhibition (ends 19 February) ranges from Phyllida Barlow's rough - and - tumble slanted stage, with its cavernous undercroft, to David Medalla's delicate foam fountains, from Steven Claydon's mobile phone masts disguised as trees and rafts of fabricated tribal artifacts, to Marten's complex syntax games with objects and images.
These observations led me to develop a mobile app, called FDM: In the Garden, that will combine information about the sculptures and sculptors in the garden with creative and restorative activities, by presenting users with a daily challenge meant to educate, motivate, and rejuvenate.
These delicate works have drawn comparisons with the lightness of Alexander Calder's mobiles and the surreal sculptures of Alberto Giacometti.
George Peters has a thirty year history of working with aerial forms from gallery works to installation sculpture, kites, mobiles and banner works.
Alexander Calder also employed aluminum, often in combination with other metals such as steel, to create his celebrated mobile sculptures.
In the end of its evolution, Calder's mobile could be defined as a kinetic sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended components which move in response to motor power or air currents.
He's an incredibly inventive artist and one of the things the exhibition is trying to do is look at, with his invention of the mobile, how that revolutionised sculpture as a practice.
To have Hepworth, who is so focused on the fixing of an image within the material, and to have Calder concerned with making sculpture mobile and giving it a kinetic shape, shows different ways in which art was being completely rethought in the middle of the 20th century.
The exhibit also includes a wall installation with multiple individual fragments, a very large 3 - panel abstract painting on canvas with fabric, paint, and collaged newspaper clippings about UFO sightings, a ceiling — hung mobile and a stabile (sculpture) on a pedestal made with wood, string and found metal.
A mobile is a type of kinetic (moving) sculpture made with rods and weighted objects that hang from the rods and balance each other.
The county also reconfigured the 28 - by -28-foot sculpture by adding weights to hoist up a portion of the mobile that it deemed as hanging too low and then attached a motor because, with the added weight, the mobile would no longer rotate on its own.
Sound Sculpture, a three - piece sound installation (with instruments such as cowbells on drum petals and an xylophone) played manually, by singing into a mobile phone or by downloading drum - machine software (Location: corner of Stephanie and John streets, south of Grange Park)
Alexander Calder largely stood apart from other modernist sculptors with his brightly colored mobiles and stabiles, which have since been widely influential, as in the large, brightly colored sculpture of Albert Paley.
Featured works include an almost 12» tall sculpture of a leaning fork with a meatball and spaghetti by Oldenburg, a metal Calder mobile c. 1948, a new neon light work from Sonnier, and an Incomplete Open Cube by LeWitt from 1974.
All those problems have been swept away, starting with clearing out all the sculpture and replacing it with Alexander Calder's soaring, monumental International Mobile (1949), the room's indisputable masterpiece.
Calder's mechanized works gave way to his mobiles and stabiles, sculptures whose disparate metal elements — made from bent wire and flat sheet metal cut - outs — were constructed with such masterful equipoise that their movements occurred naturally and unpredictably in response to the energy of the surrounding atmosphere.
The exhibition seamlessly weaved Calder's light wire mobiles with Lygia Clark's bichos, Hélio Oiticica's dancing geometries, and Abraham Palatnik's moving sculptures.
Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) is known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture made with delicate balances or suspended elements moving in response to motor power or wind.
Thea Djordjadze (b. 1971, Georgia) will populate unexpected spaces within Frieze London with a new series of mobile sculptures, incorporating the Monstera Deliciosa plants that inspired Henri Matisse's «cut - outs».
The exhibition filled YBCA with everything his astronauts need to successfully complete their voyage — including the Mobile Quarantine Facility, Mission Control, the Apollo - era Landing Excursion Module (LEM), and special equipment for conducting scientific experiments — immersing the audience in a universe of sculpture occupying the entire downstairs galleries in addition to YBCA's public spaces.
I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.
Pryor, an abstract painter, has been curating the unique shows at the gallery for two years, creating shows such as «Fashioned: One Becomes Another,» in 2011, which saw him collaborate with Project Runway designer Christopher Straub to turn his abstract images into fashion pieces that were like mobile three - dimensional sculptures.
Elsewhere, cocking a snook at the idea of art as commodity, Matthew Darbyshire has redesigned the fair's ticket office in lurid pink (inspired, apparently, by the interior of a certain mobile - phone store) and Gabriel Kuri has replaced the ashtrays with sculptures.
A collaboration with fashion designer Osman Yousefzada on a swivel - mobile made from mirror - polished stainless steel, which hung above the catwalk entrance for his A / W 2009 show, is currently on display at the Cass Sculpture Foundation in Goodwood, and he's involved in an ongoing project to transform the Pavilion café in London's Victoria Park.
During this period Chadwick was increasingly concerned with the ground supports of the stabiles which were more sculptural, and eventually these became the sculptures without any mobile elements.
, a large - scale kinetic sculpture installation composed of double - sided glass panel mirrors, with an excerpt of text cut out of each mobile panels.
Other modern sculptors like Jean Arp (1886 - 1966) as well as Henry Moore (1898 - 1986) and Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 75)- leaders of modern British sculpture - were experimenting with new forms of biomorphic / organic abstraction, while the American Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) was pioneering mobile sculpture and kinetic art, and David Smith (1906 - 65) was developing abstract metal sculpture.
On Tuesday (Sept. 17), Santa Monica Museum of Art presents The Mobile Homestead Project: A Conversation with Mary Clare Stevens, Jim Shaw and Cary Loren, a discussion of the public sculpture Mobile Homestead, created...
That same year, Calder started to construct «mobiles» - abstract sculpture with moving parts.
There were strange sculptures being erected everywhere — blow - up ones filled with waving seaweed stuff, amusement - park - style ones with old toilets for seats, seagull mobiles flapping in the sky... A concert was due to start at 10 pm, but hungry bellies were aching, so we headed to a bar across from the train station and ordered food alongside our fellow travelers and their suitcases — a plate of Manchego cheese, olives, meatballs and fried calamari.
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