Sentences with phrase «worked on monumental scale»

This metamorphosis done from series that overlapped in time, with contributions from Kitsch, from graffiti, with evocations from Pop and employing popular culture colours, led him to some sort of baroque from which he later escaped when he worked on monumental scale works, to which polished, rusted or burnt steel gave a much more austere aspect.
Considered «maquettes» - some for realised commissions, and others propositions for works on a monumental scale - this body of...
The artist, known for working on a monumental scale and utilizing a wide range of more industrial materials in his work, selected a more traditional medium for this diptych on view at the gallery's booth at The Armory Show.
Often working on a monumental scale, with light and temporary materials, some of her sculptures seem to represent an ordinary object (a raspberry, a pile of newspapers), whereas some represent «sculpture» itself (public monuments, an ancient goddess, Neolithic stones), and some represent the act of making (a swoop of the hand, a crush of the fist).
Art is twofold: it is a consummate challenge for artists to create outdoor work on a monumental scale, and it is a partnership between the Conservancy and the public,» said Keats Myer, Executive Director of Madison Square Park Conservancy.
A handful of artists have exhibitions at multiple venues in the city at the moment, notably Jeff Koons and Paul McCarthy, who both often work on a monumental scale.
Working on a monumental scale the artist Gordon Matta - Clark, from whose work the gallery takes its name, similarly redefined architecture in the 1970s, using massive slicings and excisions to suggest, among other things, the instability of the concept of property and the ephemerality of what we call real estate.
Frequently working on a monumental scale, with extreme horizontal paper or panel, Winn focuses attention to the breadth of the landscape.
The final stainless steel sculpture comprises three elements which resemble aircraft wings and proved Frömel's capacity to work on a monumental scale.
Now this same penchant for working on a monumental scale has made Mr. Kiefer the ideal artist to inaugurate an annual solo show — called, appropriately, Monumenta — that opened on Wednesday in the cavernous space of the Grand Palais in Paris.
The David Bloch Gallery is proud to present Unfolding, a group show by six members of the international art collective Agents of Change, renowned for creating environmental work on a monumental scale.
An outstanding creator of public art, Gilliam frequently works on a monumental scale and has received numerous major public commissions around the country.
Magdalena Abakanowicz also works on a monumental scale using rope and fiber in impressive geometric, circular shapes.

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The exhibition features 31 works including monumental and small - scale pieces installed throughout the sculpture park and museum, and is focused on a new commission that resurrects Deacon's 1993 work Never Mind, which has been re-fabricated in stainless steel.
Whether working on the scale of monumental sculpture or de-materialized gesture Martin's practice positions itself at the extreme brink of cognition — how knowledge and wisdom is gained at the close of experience or how life is recognized only at the edge of death.
He is renowned for being one of the first artists to make the radical gesture of taking the canvas off the stretcher and hanging it directly on the wall in works such as Purple Octagonal 1967, as well as making provocative sculptures such as Third Rope Piece 1974, the intimate scale of which directly responds to traditional ideas of monumental art.
The most monumental of Matta - Clark's work is saved for last, as the final room contains photos, diagrams and large - scale projections of both Conical Intersect and Day's End, presented back to back with emphasis on the connection between both projects.
Golub experimented with scale, and the works assembled for this exhibition range in size from the smaller works on paper to monumental, unstretched canvases that extended from floor to ceiling at the Serpentine Gallery.
Each artist has multiple, large - scale pieces on view; Kerstin Brätsch's monumental works on paper encased in glass lean against the gallery entryway like laid - back bouncers.
Following her monumental installation in MASS MoCA's largest gallery, Building 5, in 2007 — which marked her first indoor projection in the U.S. — Holzer returns with a campus - wide series of work that will include a large - scale outdoor projection on the River Street side of the factory's complex titled For North Adams, 21 of her celebrated carved stone benches located throughout MASS MoCA's sprawling campus, an installation of her Inflammatory Essays posters, and rotating exhibitions of her work spanning the breadth of her career.
Exhibiting at the gallery for the first time, DeLucia's work centers on images of domestic objects rendered in monumental scale through sculpture and relief.
Sculptors» Jewellery celebrates works on a miniature scale from artists more commonly found working in the monumental.
This major solo exhibition will feature several new ballpoint works including two very large - scale works on canvas and will be presented at the gallery's monumental project space in the Railyard District across from SITE Santa Fe.
Executed on a monumental scale this butterflies and household gloss on canvas work measures 268 cm in diameter (including the frame).
Designed specifically for Faena Art Center Catedral exhibition hall, the work consisted of hand - cut openwork textiles on a monumental scale.
This is the largest Gormley exhibition held in Germany to date, bringing together works on paper, large - scale installations, and indoor and monumental outdoor sculpture that span the artist's sculptural journey, from the early 1980s to site - specific works created this year.
The artwork of Edgar Heap of Birds includes multidisciplinary forms of public art messages, large - scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, works in glass, and monumental porcelain enamel on steel outdoor sculpture.
Made on a monumental scale, the paintings envelop the viewer from both their sheer size and the extensive expressive markings that make up the art work.
His method is often described as highly experimental: typically working on a large scale, Ruff has said that he likes the physical presence of a monumental work, making size just as much a part of the viewer's experience as what is depicted in the photograph itself.
Known for her dynamic, emotionally charged animal and human figures, the Art School's 2018 Visiting Ceramic Artist, Beth Cavener, will discuss her inspirations, body of work, and unusual method of working «solid» on a monumental scale.
Though working on a diminutive scale as compared to Rosenquist's monumental compositions, Steele draws on rigorous observations of the real world to create fragmented images that waver between recognizable form and nonobjective abstraction.
As his large scale works on canvas and on paper suggest at once the monumental and the fundamental dynamism of nature, these new prints convey scale and movement beyond the possibilities their modest formats suggest.
Depicting personally significant landscapes on a monumental scale, Douglas offers the viewer the opportunity to enter the works on their own terms and experience the highly charged potency that lies within the ordinary moment.
The current exhibition presents a selection of Riopelle's large - scale paintings from the early 1950s through the 1970s in addition to four monumental works on paper from the 1960s.
Along with more than two decades of both intimately scaled and monumental ceramic sculptures, Fired, Broken, Gathered, Heaped includes Rosen's works on paper, «which in many ways are studies for the sculptures but in other ways are very autonomous bodies of work,» Cassel Oliver said.
They could be on the scale of Andreas Gursky's or Thomas Ruff's work, but these photographs show that images don't have to be blown up to huge dimensions to be monumental...»
Sonic Acts: Vertical Cinema February 20 — 23, 2014 During four consecutive days, ten large - scale commissioned film works by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers and audiovisual artists will be presented on 35 mm celluloid and projected vertically with a custom - built projector in the monumental staircase of the Stedelijk.
Some fans of the artist Orly Genger may know her from the cult - favorite line of intimate sculptural bracelets she makes with the jeweler Jaclyn Meyer, but true core of her art will be revealed to a mass audience: she's actually a shaper of ambitious, monumental works, on the scale of an El Anatsui or Richard Serra.
«Black Block» Is Newest Brooklyn Buy — So taken is the Brooklyn Museum with their current exhibition of large - scale sculptures by Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, that the institution has decided to purchase «Black Block,» an unusually monochromatic wall hanging comprised of everyday materials, which is currently on display in the institutions's current show, «Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui» and will be traveling to museums in Des Moines, Miami Beach San Diego once the exhibition ends in August.
James Rosenquist has continued to work on a grand scale and in 2006 exhibited his monumental work Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Eleanor Roosevelt, 1998 in Art Basel's prestigious Unlimited sector in Switzerland.
Filled with light installations, monumental paintings, interactive graphic works and large scale public sculptures, Happy Station is designed to bring playfulness and delight to the day - to - day commute, making it the happiest train station on earth.
As well as his Elegy series, included are his famous summer collages as well as the black splatter lithograph Bathos, 1975 — a work on such a monumental scale, it has the impact of his most powerful canvases.
Sean Kelly Gallery is showing large - scale drawings of monumental archeological structures alongside a playful interpretation of the iconic Russian Embassy in Havana in Lego bricks by the Cuban collective Los Carpinteros and photo - based works by Marina Abramović that document the famous walk she made on the Great Wall of China in 1988 with Ulay, her partner at the time.
Especially in paintings from 1967 and ’68 titled «Rignalla» and «On the Ledge» from 1976, she lines up the vases on a high horizon, giving them a personable lean and monumental scale reminiscent of Philip Guston's late workOn the Ledge» from 1976, she lines up the vases on a high horizon, giving them a personable lean and monumental scale reminiscent of Philip Guston's late workon a high horizon, giving them a personable lean and monumental scale reminiscent of Philip Guston's late works.
Leading the evening sale on 12 December 2017 are two large scale works: Günther Förg's (1952 — 2013) monumental 300 x 200 cm painting Untitled (1999, estimate $ 200,000 — 300,000) from the artist's most distinctive series of paintings on lead.
A comprehensive survey of the work of the Guyana born British artist, Mappa Mundi covers five decades of Bowling's artistic achievement with a focus on his monumental and large - scale paintings.
Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape presents a spectrum of the artist's most recent and ambitious projects created between 2005 - 2009, including three recent large - scale sculptures, a series of eight wall works and a monumental drawing made on site.
In the post-war period New York had produced abstract painting of a certain scale and ambition, and this context, along with the size of Bowling's New York studio, allowed him to work on the larger, often monumental scale works on view at IMMA.
The three works now under consideration and on display are Sphinx, a sculpture by New York - based artist Rachel Harrison, a large - scale colour photograph by Berlin photographer Frank Thiel, and a monumental drawing on Mylar by Los Angeles - based artist Ingrid Calame.
Eleven contemporary artists comment on the environment, scale and pace of Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, Delhi and Seoul, in nearly 20 new monumental sculptures and installations, including works created on - site during the exhibition.
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