Sentences with phrase «between abjection»

Not exact matches

From being greeted by Katharina Fritsch's disturbingly hip, pony - tailed Händler (Dealer)(2001), with his one cloven - hoof, to Richard Prince's appropriated Marlboro Man photograph Cowboys, to David Hammons's arcing circle of glued together liquor bottles Untitled, to a huge room - full of Jim Shaw's profoundly weird collection of Thrift Store Paintings (1970 - ongoing), Unexchangeable does the remarkable task of restating the problem of art's paradoxical position between exclusivity and ordinary life, poised between rarity and abjection.

By exploring the dichotomies of abjection / beauty, abandonment / care, and destruction / creation, each painting gives the viewer a sense that these peculiar objects were found in their decayed but colorful state rather than made, allowing them to fluctuate anachronistically between the historical and the contemporary.

Bradford's paintings invoke Romanticism in their large scale and in the fluctuation between passages of beauty and abjection, disgust, or horror.

Abjection, preservation and the link between violence and representation are central themes in this exhibition.