Two years after mesmerizing Canadian audiences with an intensive exhibition at DHC/ART, as well as a C4I presentation during the previous BIAN digital arts biennial, Ikeda returns to Montreal on October 11 to present the North American premiere of Superposition at the Maisonneuve Theater.
In style, Mr. Chagoya's show is the very opposite of the concept-intensive exhibitions at Exit Art.
When Mr. Crimp published a revised version of his theory-intensive exhibition essay in October, the hot academic journal of the day, the "Pictures" phenomenon was born.
Like many styles that thought of themselves as modern, it was simultaneously seductive and off-putting, and that's the impression that comes across in "Art Nouveau: 1890-1914," thextravagantnt, mood-intensive exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
The organization's founder, artist and intuitive Eliza Swann, has modeled it after the Garden of Eden, only with tarot-framed artist intensives, lectures, exhibitions, and performances designed to reunite creativity with spirituality.
He is one of three artists whose work is highly imaginative and appealing, but so labor-intensive that their current exhibition is titled "Obsession".
It also reflects the continuing hegemony of late-late Conceptualism — now extravagantly materialized and labor-intensive — over the international exhibition circuit.
The intensive study is laid out in a fascinating, clearly explained exhibition.
Bringing together arts and sciences, it hosts an intensive 12-day programme of debates each May, as well as special events, exhibitions, books, business events and academic projects at other times.
In the middle of an intensely materialist decade, when theory-intensive "commodity art" reigned, it produced an exhibition titled "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985".
One of the most labour-intensive aspects of assembling the exhibition was the "inspiration room", a set of colour-coded mood boards pinned with fabric samples, old photographs, illustrations and hundreds of other scraps of ephemera from Dinnigan's creative process.
