Not exact matches
Kalm notes: «This presentation focuses on a select group of
figurative artists who
formed connections both personally and aesthetically
between post war Paris and New York.
In the next decade, dark and ominous
forms crowded his painting,
forming a visual language somewhere
between abstract and
figurative.
Featuring more than 100 works spanning from the early 1980s to the present, including a number of new and never - before - seen pieces, the exhibition juxtaposes graphic patterns with abstracted,
figurative paintings, creating a fully immersive environment that underscores the artist's systematic dismantling of the hierarchy
between design and fine art, and
between three - dimensional
form and two - dimensional representation.
Ignoring the traditional distinction
between naturalistically depicted and abstracted figures, the sensuous color and bold, sinuous contours of these elusive and lyrical paintings play on the tension
between figurative references and abstract
forms.
His work oscillates
between figurative and abstract elements, and embodies his lifelong research about the interactions
between form, content and critical thought.
Allowing the work to flow through her and onto the canvas, the series floats
between figurative and abstract works but tend to be dominated by familiar dots that
form eyes and portraits of women — some laughing, some weeping.
The works incorporate both the language of abstraction, and that of
figurative painting to
form a relationship
between the two; these are amalgams of both painting and video possessing the quality of both
forms.
As you spend more time looking at his full range of shapes and
forms, you'll soon begin to recognize clear connections
between his
figurative and abstract sculptures.
It is worth pointing out that if it hadn't been for teaching, the tight circle of friendships
between Park, Diebenkorn and Bischoff that led to the Bay Area
Figurative style would have never been
formed.
Szymczyk's Documenta has been constructed according to the same idea that motivated, for example, Massimiliano Gioni, the artistic director of the 2013 Venice Biennale: to create an exhibition, one with numerous sites for viewing the art, that «blurs the line
between professional artists and amateurs, insiders and outsiders, reuniting artworks with other
forms of
figurative expression — both to release art from the prison of its supposed autonomy, and to remind us of its capacity to express a vision of the world.»
Already, we see the young artist negotiating
between the abstract and
figurative, reducing organic
forms into geometric configurations and using the branches of trees as a way to frame or delineate space.
By breaking boundaries
between classic
forms and contours, he creates
figurative and abstract landscape images using symbolic and geo shapes.
These large, vibrant,
figurative paintings explore the relationship
between subject and environment, ultimately the variables that
form us as individuals.