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 Jeff WallJeff Wall is considered one of the most acclaimed and influential artists of his generation.He uses state-of-the-art photographic and computer technologies to make pictures that evoke the composition, scale, and ambition of the grandest history paintings. This exhibition presents a comprehensive overview of Wall's nearly 30-year career. Wall uses state-of-the-art photographic and computer technology to make pictures that evoke the composition, scale, and ambition of the grandest history paintings. His often giant color transparencies are mounted on light boxes that combine the seductive glow of a cinema screen or public advertising with the physical presence of minimalist sculpture. Over the last three decades, Wall's intellectual rigor and critical accomplishment have aided significantly in placing photography at the very center of contemporary art discourse. His works often have the formal clarity of documentary photography or photojournalism, yet almost all of his photographs rely on, to varying degrees, staged or constructed artifices. Both the degree and nature of Wall's inventions vary significantly from picture to picture. In some works, the scene has been created through the conventional manipulation of objects or individuals in real time and real space. event (ended) current design events more Jeff Wall added by Levent OZLER |
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 MOCA Focus: Florian Maier-AichenThe Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) continues its MOCA Focus series, a major initiative to showcase the work of emerging artists in Southern California, with an exhibition featuring Los Angeles-based artist Florian Maier-Aichen.MOCA Focus: Florian Maier-Aichen will be on view at MOCA Pacific Design Center June 28 through September 30, 2007. Organized by MOCA Assistant Curator Rebecca Morse, MOCA Focus: Florian Maier-Aichen focuses on the artist's photographic portrayal of the natural, industrial, and cultural landscape. He creates expansive, haunting vistas-landscapes devoid of humans, but visibly touched by mankind-bathed in an ethereal, almost otherworldly light. Since its debut in 2005, the MOCA Focus series has featured challenging new works and diverse practices, including sculpture, installation, photography, painting, new media, and experimental video. In addition to being the first solo museum exhibition for the artist, each exhibition will be documented by the artist's first monographic catalogue, including images of the artist's works and a major scholarly essay by the exhibition curator. event (ended) current design events more MOCA Focus: Florian Maier-Aichen design directory MOCA > Art Museums added by Levent OZLER |
 Mike Stilkey at Rice Gallery: When the Animals RebelLos Angeles artist Mike Stilkey looks to his imagination to create whimsical, yet poignant, portraits of animals and people.For his installation When the Animals Rebel, Stilkey arranged thousands of old books against a massive 16 X 44 foot wall built behind Rice Gallery's glass façade. Using pen and ink and acrylics, Stilkey has painted the books' spines to depict a scene where wild and domestic animals are, as he puts it, "taking back their land," while humans with detached expressions continue their daily routines, seemingly oblivious to the animal's presence. When the Animals Rebel is the fifth installation in Rice Gallery's Summer Window series. This series features installations that can be viewed through the gallery's front glass while the gallery is closed for the summer. more Mike Stilkey at Rice Gallery: When the Animals Rebel design directory Mike Stilkey > Artists added by Levent OZLER |
 Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon at 100Pablo Picasso began making sketches and preparatory studies for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in the winter of 1906-07, producing hundreds over the ensuing months before arriving at the final composition by the fall.In celebration of the one-hundredth anniversary of the creation of this epoch-making painting, this installation is dedicated to the work and its complex, fascinating genesis. The exhibition reunites Les Demoiselles with a group of preparatory studies for the overall composition and for the individual figures, and also includes selected works created immediately before and after the iconic painting that highlight its generative role in the artist's oeuvre. Discoveries from recent conservation and archival materials tracing Les Demoiselles's journey to MoMA are also on view in the gallery and in the mezzanine of The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building. more www.mom... (224) design directory The Museum of Modern Art > Art Museums added by Levent OZLER |
 Rumi Under the Dome of Hagia SophiaThe year 2007 has been declared by UNESCO to be "The Year of Mevlana".Celebrating the 800th anniversary of his birth, an exhibition titled "Being a Soul in the House of Love - Heritage of Humanity: Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi" opened at Istanbul's Hagia Sophia Museum. The architectural project of the exhibition has been created by Ahmet Ozguner. 3D application and construction has been realized by Luna Creative; the production department of Ay Ajans Co. The exhibition area consists of 9 sections, symbolizing the number that has a very important place in the Mevlevi Order. These sections include categories such as "Mevlana; His Life and Thoughts," "800 Years of the Mevlevi Order," "Music and the Sema Ritual of the Whirling Dervishes" and "Symbolism in Calligraphy, Literature and the Mevlevi Order." 190 original works, gathered from several museums of Turkey are exhibited in these sections. The exhibition will remain open till August 12th, 2007. more Rumi Under the Dome of Hagia Sophia added by Levent OZLER |
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