In 2014, Marten's work will be included in High Performance, an exhibition of time - based media art since 1996 from the Julia Stoschek Collection at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany and Superficial Hygiene at De Hallen Haarlem, the Netherlands; a group show of
young contemporary artists concerned with the shiny hyper - reality of contemporary imagery.
Not exact matches
In Jerry Saltz's recent New York Magazine piece, «Generation Blank,» he expresses some
concern about
young contemporary artists making «work stuck in a cul - de-sac of aesthetic regress, where everyone is deconstructing the same elements.»
Language, broadly speaking, has long been a central
concern for many black
contemporary artists — Glenn Ligon, Pope.L, Lorna Simpson and Carrie Mae Weems come to mind — but this
younger generation draws inspiration directly from literary sources: the poetry of Amiri Baraka, Tisa Bryant, Moten, Harryette Mullen, Claudia Rankine and others.
While an expressly national platform, «New
Contemporaries» also crystallises global processes and
concerns, and succinctly shows
young UK
artists to be pretty clued up about the world around them.
Future, Now
concerns the presence of science fiction in
contemporary art; focusing on the work of
young, international
artists, the exhibition...
Future, Now
concerns the presence of science fiction in
contemporary art; focusing on the work of
young, international
artists, the exhibition celebrates the future in its multiplicities.
Post-modern,
contemporary British art, particularly that of the
Young British
Artists, has been said to be «characterised by a fundamental
concern with material culture... perceived as a post-imperial cultural anxiety».
In light of the recent «material turn» in the work of
younger artists, but also in the humanities and cultural studies, Magor's art speaks forcefully to
contemporary concerns.
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue will examine an important new development in
contemporary photography, offering an opportunity to define the
concerns of a
younger generation of
artists and contextualize their work within the history of art and visual culture.