Resembling a full stop or black hole, Divola's spray painted circles, almost as lesions upon the interior walls of
a derelict abandoned space, add both a lethal mark to a sinister image of utter abandonment, as well as accentuate the significance and weight of a single material gesture enacted by the artist upon a chosen ground.
Not exact matches
On the edge of Terran
space lies Halcyon 6, a
derelict starbase
abandoned by a mysterious precursor race.
Srdjan Keca's (Serbia) Museum of the Revolution (2014) records the
derelict state of the Belgrade museum built as a symbol of socialist Yugoslavia and its
abandoned underground
spaces which are now home to an alternative community.
Portland based artist Stephanie Buer explores
derelict and
abandoned urban
spaces in her meticulously detailed oil paintings and charcoal drawings.
Using photography in conjunction with urban exploration, School 2 Pripyat looks at
abandoned and
derelict metropolitan
spaces.
Focusing primarily on solo presentations of artists, as in one artist per
space, the show is well - curated with more than one canny juxtaposition (two personal favorites were Leigh Ledare's 16 mm film Vokzal [2016] of the public around three Moscow train stations with John Divola's elegant «
Abandoned Paintings» [2007 — 8] photos, which feature recuperated discarded student paintings in
derelict domestic settings, and Henry Taylor's big brushy paintings of black communities next to Deana Lawson's elaborately staged, intimate portraits of black subjects).