Through an intuitive approach, which he compares to the rhythms of music, Costa
composes shapes and textures that are often subtle, yet full of narrative possibility.
Adriano Costa
composes shapes and textures in the middle room to explore the distinction between the «throwaway and the precious» in solo exhibition «From My Body Comes, Through Your Body Goes», on view through 10th August at Zabludowicz Collection.
Not exact matches
Students also discuss the main characteristics of the artist
and how they have used their line, colour,
shape,
texture and how the artist has
composed the picture (that is, put it together).
It will be
composed of many fabric elements including knitting
and crochet, fine silks
and cotton velvets (referred to as Manchester cloth across much of the world), recycled clothes
and industrially produced textiles, embellished with Portuguese tassels, crystals
and beads in a riotous patchwork of patterns,
shapes and textures, hanging in striking contrast to the straight, clean lines of the glass atrium.
In Collective Conversation, four works spanning 50 years explore architecture, geometry, solid form,
and fleeting gesture, such as Dan Flavin's work
composed almost entirely of light; Keith Sonnier's juxtaposition of solid
shapes and fragile neon; Dorothea Rockburne's wall installation combining folded canvas
and drawing;
and Mel Kendrick's experimentation with structure
and texture through the medium of pulp paper.
Rosemary Collard is an Australian artist who has spent 45 years researching ways to
compose pictures with the basic visual elements of art — colour, form, line,
shape, space,
texture and value.
The breadth of the exhibition — chronologically
and stylistically — is illustrated when comparing a work such as Greene's # 10 (1935),
composed of densely layered papers on a small scale in a variety of
textures,
shapes,
and palette of muted hues, to Vicente's Untitled (1980), the expansive picture plane dominated by emphatic vertical
and horizontal linear forms in deep greens, purples,
and reds.
It focuses on the experimental transformation of
shapes and surfaces that make up the urban landscape, from which the three artists draw their inspiration from; Fabio Petani with his refined balance between organic forms
and geometry, Nelio through a dense
texture of colour fields that he uses to
compose his name,
and Heiko Zahlmann, with a long
and vaunted past as a graffiti writer, evolves his style in three - dimensional works, in which painting, drawing
and architecture interact with one another.
Pamela Jorden's paintings are
composed of fragments, accumulations of
shape, line,
texture,
and pattern which form varying optical densities.