These formally abstract compositions engage with
the cyclical nature of life, point to our essence of being and in turn become a celebration and reflection on the transient nature of existence.
Plunging headfirst into the 21st century, group exhibition The Luminous Interval at The Guggenheim Bilbao takes The Saviours of God as a starting point to address the myriad and often uncontrollable dualities that surround
the cyclical nature of life, from the conception of a foetus or an artwork to the birth of a nation, and the subsequent demise of both.
It takes the viewer through four seasons in one tree's life — repeated endlessly to simultaneously evoke
the cyclical nature of life and the ideal of infinite existence.
The cyclical nature of life — decay and resurrection — plays a central recurring role throughout Leonardo Drew's elaborate and enthralling installations and multilayered sculptures, which are often composed of found objects, wood, and fabrics.
The work explores
the cyclical nature of life and memory.
And yet,
the cyclical nature of life, death and rebirth is the foundational theme of this series; your character revives after death, and may return to the point of his or her demise to collect what was dropped.
Her films also embrace the spiritual and physical landscape of her leafy hometown of Nara, using the incandescence of nature as a commentary on the ruthless and
cyclical nature of life that her characters struggle to reconcile with.
But the allotment and its currency in the film becomes a metaphor for nurturing, and in that sense for
the cyclical nature of life, obviously.
Not exact matches
Floral dresses are the main piece
of the warm season, celebrating the return to
life of nature,
cyclical and color.
The
cyclical nature of these relationships, though true to
life, can, unfortunately, make the book feel repetitive at times; it can be a struggle to keep track
of all the different men drifting in and out
of the author's
life.
In context, it serves to drive home many
of the game's overarching themes: the
cyclical nature of conflict, the conflation
of life with one's memory and how the world Jin inhabits is simply cruel.
This ritual reflects a common tradition among cultures that practice sand painting — allowing for new drawings to be made while also speaking to the impermanence
of life and the
cyclical nature of the universe.
Zittel's work highlights the complicated idea that we need to find meaning and structure in our
lives; our desire to imbue use objects with intentionality; and the
cyclical nature of our particular ideologies or utopias.
Attending to the
cyclical nature of the artist's work, the project examines the transformations in Braque's creative process as he moved from painting small, intimate interiors in the late 1920s, to depicting bold, large - scale, tactile Cubist spaces in the 1930s, to creating personal renderings
of daily
life in the 1940s.
The techniques, ideas and themes addressed in this exhibition include long - term engagements versus chance encounters with various land and waterscapes, the capacity
of the camera to document slow, subtle changes, and the infinitely
cyclical qualities
of life and
nature.
From large scale multimedia installation to paper collages, Hodges explores notions
of cyclical loss and the ephemeral
nature of life.
This series uses digital technology to create a dynamic painting depicting vivid images
of animals in countless flowers that constantly bloom and wither, at once expanding the expressive forms
of color and making a metaphor for the connected,
cyclical nature of natural
life.
They have underestimated the basically
cyclical structure
of nature, so why should people model their short, brutish
lives against long - term effects?