Sentences with word «wunderkammer»

Installation view at Wunderkammer Olbricht / / Photo by Bernd Borchardt, courtesy of me Collectors Room

Medieval art; Wunderkammer objects, especially ivory carvings, nautilus cups, and decorative tankards and boxes; postwar and contemporary art

Mark Dion's immersive Wunderkammer at Whitechapel Gallery is a collection examining our fraught relationship with nature

In a sort of contemporary Wunderkammer, viewers can admire amongst others a still - life by Pablo Picasso, a Takashi Murakami painting, 17th - and 18th - century vanitas paintings, as well as reinterpretations of the same theme by contemporary artists such as Peter Blake, Sarah Lucas and Vik Muniz.

It traces the evolution of the collections from Athanasius Kircher's 17th - century Wunderkammer to modern museums, and points the way for projects yet to come.

I have a solo show entitled Wunderkammer up this winter at Kasia Kay Art Projects.

SFAC Main Gallery «Innards and Upwards, a San Francisco Wunderkammer.»

Open from March 21st through May 1st, 2013, Republic Worldwide deconstructs and reimagines the traditional Wunderkammer through works by over a dozen New York based contemporary artists that will stoke your sense of wonder and odd delight.

He has written for First Things, The Other Journal, and Wunderkammer Magazine.

This mise - en - scene is pure wunderkammer — so fixated on cramming every inch of the frame with knickknacks, piles of papers, obsolete technologies (production designer Maria Djurkovic must've been given one hell of a typewriter budget), and accumulated dust that the characters themselves begin to resemble rare, preserved specimens.

Exhibitions to see across Venice: «Philip Guston at the Accademia is a must, and also the last of Axel Vervoordt's wunderkammer extravaganzas, Intuition, in Palazzo Fortuny — it has intuition, dreams, telepathy and Surrealism as its themes.»

Collaborations are on message for Frieze Masters, following Kunstkammer Georg Laue and Peter Freeman's shared stand in 2014, which mixed the former's works of art, such as a 17th - century nautilus shell, with the latter's modern and contemporary art, creating a modern - day Wunderkammer.

Perhaps the most enchanting room in New York now is at the Michael Werner gallery: «Polke — Bernstein — Amber,» an update of the Renaissance - era Wunderkammer (cabinet of curiosities) by the quicksilvery German artist Sigmar Polke.

The artist Mark Dion creates large - scale installations and fantastical cabinets — modeled after Wunderkammer of the sixteenth century — that question established archaeological, museum, and scientific methods and practices in contemporary society.

Losq's installation Wunderkammer was acquired by the Saatchi Collection, and will be included in the forthcoming exhibition The Power of Paper at the Saatchi Gallery.

Like little Wunderkammer — cabinets of curiosities — the paintings manage to collect people and the objects that surround them (phones, shoes, luggage, food, furniture, art supplies) like a modern - day personal art diary version of Where's Waldo.

«A walk - in Wunderkammer whose curiosities include electrified costumes and glow - in - the - dark props as well as film footage, photographs, and ephemera.»

«Art Moves» showcases a series of dance installations inspired by renowned artists like Georgia O'Keeffe, Wassily Kandinsky and contemporary modern artist Jeff Koons, with contemporary art gallery Wunderkammer Company serving as the backdrop.

With his still ongoing solo exhibition, Kristalline Wunderkammer at the Ingo Maurer's showroom in Munich, glass artist and craftsman Simone Crestani is going to be making an official appearance to the design industry insiders and enthusiasts... [more]

Mr. Hirst's sculptures are Pop wunderkammers, brimming with brand - name pharmaceuticals in glossy packaging.

In 2011, her work was featured as part of NeoHooDoo: Art for A Forgotten Faith, and in 2013, she recontextualized objects from the collections of the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles in New World Wunderkammer.

Alongside their work, Wunderkammer also incorporates objects chosen by the artists in the show including well thumbed books of reference, the objects they collect, and pieces of furniture from their studios.

Organized in cooperation with Kunstkammer Georg Laue Munich, this special exhibition pairs new paintings by Sigmar Polke with exquisite Renaissance and Baroque amber objects to transform the gallery into a modern Wunderkammer.

The earliest wunderkammer, or cabinets of curiosity,...

This month he's going to make a homecoming to his birthplace of Miami with an adventurous show called «A Queer and Curious Cabinet» at the Bass Museum — that's right, Bas at the Bass — that will forgo his signature paintings in favor of displaying artifacts from his own wunderkammer - like collection alongside a selection of pieces from the institution's permanent collection.

Currently on view in England are several shows featuring wunderkammer displays of objects and artworks from disparate times and places that provide insight into «the world we live in»: Brian Dillon's Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing at Turner Contemporary; Ralph Rugoff's Alternative Guide to the Universe at the Hayward Gallery; and Mark Leckey's The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things at Nottingham Contemporary (see my first travelogue entry).

Reminiscent of a Renaissance Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, McGuire's studio objects reflect an esoteric interest in natural history such as the glass - cased and mounted specimens of taxidermied birds, shells, a sheep's skull, a mummified cat.

With a full house of starry artists and wunderkammer appeal, this exhibition has all the building blocks of a sure - fire summer hit.

The British Museum has reopened the Waddesdon Bequest Wunderkammer, sponsored by Lord Rothschild.

This giant Wunderkammer is the subject of an article in Wired Magazine, which treats us to half a dozen great big photos of, well, of what some library afficianados might want for Christmas — on the Big Rock Candy Mountain.

ME COLLECTORS ROOM Group Show: «Wunderkammer Olbricht» Exhibition: Permanent Collection Auguststrasse 68, 10117 Berlin, click here for map

Niedernhall, Germany; Salzburg, Austria Industry (hardware) Medieval art; Wunderkammer objects, especially ivory carvings, nautilus cups, and decorative tankards and boxes; postwar and contemporary art Top 200 appearance: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Hirst's continued fascination with death is evident throughout and, using Picasso's Nature morte au crane et au pot as a starting point, part of the exhibition will present a contemporary wunderkammer — a series of memento mori reflecting a theme that recurs throughout the Murderme collection.

Though they incorporate modern objects, Cornaro's cast monolithic blocks resemble sixteenth - century wunderkammer or artifacts from ancient cultures preserved in a time capsule.

Recent projects include the Unofficial Department of Handshakes in collaboration with Hannah Ireland, City Hall Jan — Feb 2018, and an interactive installation, Innards and Upwards, A San Francisco Wunderkammer, built at a 2016 RecologySF Residency, currently on view at The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery.

Made in collaboration with in collaboration with The Invisible Collection, The Wunderkammer, and The Green Gallery, you can actually purchase this amazing piece for inside and out in multiple colors.

Fortunately there is so much to see in the Nine Streets, that they were not very far yet.Below: as we turned a corner, we saw that there was a pop - up store of The Wunderkammer.

Whether it be a secret compartment, a window, a lever, or a knob, his creations are ensconced in the covetousness and intimacy of reliquaries and wunderkammer.

The display integrates works by contemporary artists (including Christian Marclay and Richard Tuttle) into a Wunderkammer.

Article by Alison Hugill, Photos by Alexander Coggin in Berlin / / Jun. 16, 2015 Anne Duk Hee Jordan's studio is a cross between a metal workshop and a wunderkammer, neatly divided down the middle.

The works are filled with child - like wonder, and recall the sand - toys and penny arcades of the Victorian era, or the «wunderkammer» of the same period — great halls where the aristocracy of the day would display rare treasures: shells, fossils, taxidermy, fine china, numismatics and other curiosities.