None of the artists present objects or paintings, instead, photography, video installation, wall drawing, sound, 16 mm film, and computer terminals are employed.
Not exact matches
Almost
none of the
artists in the exhibition is
present in the book.
But although
none of these
artists are shrinking violets, in this setting, the spacey effect
of their individual works is reinforced by being
presented in what becomes the stunning total visual work
of art, the gallery site.
Others seek to keep up a program born out
of subjective endeavours and shared with a worldwide community: such as LIFE SPORT in Athens, which sells «critical wearables» — the LIFE SPORT joggers — as an attempt to generate alternative arts funding in a time and place where there is
none; Opening Times, which is an online - only exhibition platform; Peach, an exhibition space and home in Rotterdam; and I: project space, which fills a gap in the Beijing art scene by
presenting video art and supporting
artist exchange via residencies.
ALEX KATZ: «
PRESENT TENSE» THROUGH APRIL 22 In Richard Gray Gallery's stable
of living
artists, there are several with arguably larger international reputations than Alex Katz — Jaume Plensa, Jim Dine and Magdalena Abakanowicz — but
none who embodies the gallery's aesthetic as perfectly as Katz.
None of these
artists take on these contemporary issues directly or didactically, but rather make use
of unconventional materials to produce a particular experience
of the work's physical presence, or else to
present surfaces that evoke the polyvalent potential
of digital screens to display multiple, even conflicting, perceptual modes, both sequentially and simultaneously.
The 35 mm slide paintings, with their cut - canvas windows, through which the slides are illuminated from the back (the electronics were made by the
artist's father),
present images
of past performances, installations and paintings,
none of which exist today.
None of these early shaped canvases are on display here and the exhibition
presents Smith as an abstract rather than a pop
artist, although both terms need qualification in reference to a career formed by the circumventing
of dogmatic positions.