This is Isa Genzken’s first public artwork in the United States. A crucial figure in postwar contemporary art, Genzken is a sculptor whose work reimagines architecture, assemblage, and installation, giving form to new plastic environments and precarious structures. The artist represented Germany at the 2007 Venice Biennale and has shown her work in leading museums across Europe. She was among a group of prominent international artists featured in the exhibition “Unmonumental,” the survey that inaugurated
culture, and language1 The architecture of the Twentieth century has been shaped by powerful social, economic and political forces. This has stemmed from influence of war, diverse political regimes, national and international architectural movements and technological development. Along with this architects and ideas has been able to travel around the world more than ever before and from this designs have become apparent that sought to break with the past. Architecture that was once specific and
to become recognized for his sculptures and installations while he began to use materials such as stone, aluminum and resin. Kapoor was honored with the Turner Prize for contemporary art in 1990 after being represented by Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. (6) The 21st century was the beginning of Kapoor’s large in scale career and his unique use of form, space, and materials. 2004 marked the year where Chicago gained a new piece of art that changed people’s view of the city and was Kapoor’s first
embrace the freedom of the outdoor space to create large pieces. As an example, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei constructed a sizeable installation of interconnecting bicycle frames, located inside the courtyard of Palazzo Franchetti, during the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014. The use of scale is something which can be fully appreciated when work is placed outside in the open space in comparison to the compact feeling it may inhibit inside a gallery
Architects as Managers of Change in Croatia Transition in a social sense is a change from one system into another. Globally, the modernist paradigm changed to the post-modern with the disappearance of central authorities, universal dogmas and foundational ethics. The post-modern world introduced fragmentation, instability, indeterminacy and insecurity. Architectural responses to these conditions occurred as a 'semantic nightmare' of the post-modern discourse and/or the attempted completion of