Tag: Contexts

Against the Way Things Go at Gasser Grunnert

NEW YORK, NY.- Everyday, functional objects have been known to transcend utility and enter into heightened subjective relationships with their possessors. Passionate gestures of devotion have ensued with a woman recently marrying the Eiffel Tower and a…

Against the Way Things Go at Gasser Grunnert

NEW YORK, NY.- Everyday, functional objects have been known to transcend utility and enter into heightened subjective relationships with their possessors. Passionate gestures of devotion have ensued with a woman recently marrying the Eiffel Tower and a…

Work by Snorre Ytterstad on View at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo

OSLO.- Snorre Ytterstad’s work often starts off with something inconspicuous from everyday life, like a piece of reinforcement rod from the back yard, a pen, a drawing pin or a coin. By placing these familiar objects in unusual contexts, where they are…

Christian Marclay’s The Clock Winner of Golden Lion Prize at 2011 Venice Biennale

NEW YORK, NY.- The Paula Cooper Gallery announced that Christian Marclay’s groundbreaking new 24-hour video work The Clock has been awarded the Golden Lion for best artwork in the 54th Venice Biennale. Called “an abundant, magnificent work” (The Finan…

Exhibition of Works with Lens-Based Mediaphotography, Video and Film by Berni Searle

METZ.- Berni Searle works with lens-based media—photography, video, and film —to stage narratives connected to history, memory, and place. While her work is intertwined with South African history that has emerged from a “life apart”…

Edward Cella Art + Architecture Shows a Solo Exhibition by Contemporary Artist Brad Miller

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Edward Cella Art + Architecture is presenting a solo exhibition of a trilogy of new works by contemporary artist and sculptor Brad Miller. Using the elements of clay, wood and fire, Miller creates three interconnected yet discrete bod…

Secession Presents the Work of American Artist, Musician, and Composer Stephen Prina

VIENNA.- The work of American artist, musician, and composer Stephen Prina is characterized by his appropriation of works by other artists, which he then places in new contexts. This is also the approach taken in his new project As He Remembered It, de…

Secession Presents the Work of American Artist, Musician, and Composer Stephen Prina

VIENNA.- The work of American artist, musician, and composer Stephen Prina is characterized by his appropriation of works by other artists, which he then places in new contexts. This is also the approach taken in his new project As He Remembered It, de…

The Hugo Boss Prize 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann on View at the Guggenheim Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of the work of German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann (b. 1941, Düsseldorf), winner of the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010, is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 20–November 2, 2011. Feldmann is the eighth artist to win…

The Hugo Boss Prize 2010: Hans-Peter Feldmann on View at the Guggenheim Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- An exhibition of the work of German artist Hans-Peter Feldmann (b. 1941, Düsseldorf), winner of the HUGO BOSS PRIZE 2010, is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, May 20–November 2, 2011. Feldmann is the eighth artist to win…

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