Rondinone reactivates
the alloverness of this project in a room covered in Giorno's poem paintings, where viewers can use six telephones to dial up and listen to the poet's funny, kinky, and subversive compositions.
The close valued color shifts, luminosity, paint quality, brushwork, texture, and
alloverness of drawing anticipate Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, the arrival of Morris Louis, Larry Poons and much of what was to come in the best abstract painting from the 1940's to the present day.
Not exact matches
Perhaps most significantly, Schapiro's compositions are not allover abstractions, and that not
alloverness — the fact that each presents a figure on a ground — is the one element that could be interpreted as a subtle critique
of the Greenbergian imperative to deemphasize figure and privilege the totality and immediacy
of ground.
The virtual absence
of white in Mr. Whitney's work creates a great visual heat and internal pressure — an
alloverness that reflects his careful study
of Pollock — but,
of course, it also has symbolic overtones.