Stand - outs at the highly successful and well - attended 7th edition of abc included: Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's immersive aluminum chain sculpture presented by Esther Schipper; Douglas Coupland's installation of painted globes entitled Optimism vs. Pessimism, which the artist showed with Daniel Faria Gallery; Beijing - based artist Guan Xiao's electrifying three - channel video installation Kraupa - Tuskany Zeidler and Antenna Space's shared booth drew droves of onlookers who often stayed for multiple rotations of the video loop; and at Johann König, Camille Henrot presented her video Coupe / Decalé alongside Desktop Series, a series of small bronze sculptures that reflect on the tension
between immateriality and the universal creative space provided by the computer desktop.
Not exact matches
By interacting with the photographed shadows in the image, the real cast shadows of the salient frame create a coalescence of figurative and real spaces, activating the symbolic tension
between materiality and
immateriality.
From chaos to
immateriality, passing through a curious and absurd dialectics
between opposites.
Their work, in common, explores boundaries
between personal and cosmic dimensions,
between physicality and
immateriality, the man - made and the natural, and
between tradition and modernity.
While for example Minimal Art focused on the specific characteristics of the used material, today's phenomena of digitization bring about a new tension
between materiality and
immateriality that is reflected in contemporary art practices.
In search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, Marina Abramovic travels through Brazil experiencing sacred rituals and exploring limits
between art,
immateriality and consciousness.
The slippage
between the tactile world and the virtual one, conjures a picture caught
between thingness and
immateriality — a quotidian gauntlet.
In 1972 he turned to words and their
immateriality to explore the relationship
between abstract categories of thought, such as general and particular, finite and infinite, culture and nature, the passing of historical time and the hypothesis of the eternity of universal physical laws, the routine of experience and the abstraction of philosophical principles.