On the ground floor of Parasol unit, the exhibition focuses on a notion of «Here» and includes paintings that address materiality and
bodily presence through three - dimensional object - paintings, pattern and colour.
Not exact matches
The scriptural witness of the prophecies should be enough as a basis for faith; Mary did not find the Lord
through her quest for his body, but only
through answering his personal call to her; she must not cling to his
bodily presence, for his life is now on another plane, with the Father who is the Father of all those who follow Jesus because he is his Father who has raised him from the dead; Thomas is offered sight and touch, as a gracious concession to his lack of faith; but he does not believe because of this, but because the risen Lord addresses him; and the happiness of those who have faith without sight is greater.
Alexandra Pirici (b. 1982, Bucharest, Romania) uses performance and choreography to address symbolic manifestations of history
through frameworks that define
bodily presence in both real and virtual space.
Creating a path
through the gallery, the sculptures are gathered together to encourage a feeling of
bodily presence within the spaces they shape.
Comparison with Bontecou, and the material experimentations, tactility, and
bodily allusions of Eva Hesse — an artist who likely became familiar with Burri
through his
presence in New York — demands revision of the emphasis on medical analogies which Burri himself disliked.
This same sculpture is made
through a process of appliqué — stitching together a skin - tight fabric over forms and giving them a very human /
bodily presence.