Sentences with phrase «ziggurat form»

The Estate of General Idea (1969 - 1994) had their first exhibition with the Mitchell - Innes & Nash Gallery on view in Chelsea through January 13, featuring several «ziggurat» paintings from the late 1960s, alongside works on paper, photographs and ephemera that highlight the central importance of the ziggurat form in the rich practice of General Idea.

«Ziggurat: General Idea 1968 - 1994» serves to illustrate the pervasion of the signature ziggurat form in their body of work.

The Ziggurat paintings are fully illustrated in color alongside images of drawings, installation, sculptures, and other works that incorporate the ziggurat form and is accompanied by a foreword written by Bronson and an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The exhibition will be on view in our Chelsea gallery from November 30, 2017 through January 13, 2018 and will feature approximately seven ziggurat paintings alongside works on paper, photographs and ephemera that expand upon the significance of the ziggurat form in the oeuvre of General Idea.

Several architectural drawings on view in the exhibition situate the ziggurat form within imagined space.

In an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, AA Bronson explains the group's initial fascination with the ziggurat form;

The book serves to illustrate the pervasion of the signature ziggurat form in their body of work.

Not exact matches

Ziggurat releases in physical form on February 19th for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

«The six sculptures in [2,3] take their cue from a range of geometric forms — the pyramid, sphere, ziggurat, octagonal bipyramid (gem), arc, and möbius - strip.

The black triangular geometry can be read as a dark ziggurat, a monolithic form covered by smoke and fire.

His installations utilize elemental forms such as cones and ziggurats.

The bands of paint appear as though they are stacked on top of each other, and narrow incrementally in width from bottom to top so as to form a ziggurat shape.

The exhibition highlights their use of the ziggurat motif, an architectural form common to both the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica and to modern skyscrapers.

This exhibition will focus on the group's tamer but still visually grabbing Ziggurat Paintings, which were made between 1968 — 86 and play with the ancient Mesopotamian form.

Known for their unique approach to things and their meaning, General Idea appropriated the ziggurat as the icon of power and theism, utilizing its form as a framing device to examine questions of architecture, branding and spatial politics.

From the 1980s this often took the form of spatial components such as steps, doors, tunnels or shapes which resembled ziggurats, the ancient temple towers built up in successive stages.

Aiding their semi-fictional «1984 Miss General Idea Pageant,» the ziggurat was a representation of progress, power, and success, repeated, coupled, and combined to express control through a basic form.

In addition to the planks, the artist also creates wall pieces and free - standing sculptures in varying geometrical shapes and sizes, ranging from smaller forms on pedestals to large - scale, outdoor structures in the shape of pyramids, ziggurats, tetrahedrons and occasionally crystals.

Working with perishable organic materials (pollen, milk, wood, and rice) as well as durable ones that include granite, marble, and brass, he grounds his work by his choice of forms — squares, ziggurats, and ships, among others.

Aiding their semi-fictional «1984 Miss General Idea Pageant,» the ziggurat was a representation of progress, power, and success and repeated, coupled, and combined to express control through a basic form.

In a perspectival shift, this assembly hangs atop acrylic - backed custom laminates of tourist graffiti carved in sandstone cliffs, forming wall - mounted ziggurats.