Untitled adopts a very
different pictorial space from her earlier work, in what some critics have seen as a dramatic and powerful shift.
Part of the 2000 Words series, conceived and commissioned by Massimiliano Gioni, and published by the Deste Foundation, 2000 Words: Josh Smith presents the entirety of the American artist's works in the Dakis Joannou Collection and includes an essay by Anne Pontegnie that examines how the artist explicitly seeks to open up
a different pictorial space.
In the mural - size Shaking Out the Bed, figures, seen perhaps from the side, maybe lying down, reaching to the painting's right side to the dials there to adjust perspectival vantage point, appear from above, slip into
different pictorial spaces, or try to get outside the frame.
Not exact matches
A showcase for her extensive arsenal of techniques and ideas, her ambitious large - scale canvases create patchworks out of
different manners of mark - making and toy inventively with questions of frame dynamics and figure / ground illusions, often within a remarkably shallow
pictorial space.
You bring together culturally
different perspectives on the
pictorial space.
Their complex topography, their nooks and crannies, their structural depth and intricacy suggest an entirely
different reading of
space that isn't
pictorial nor is it truly sculptural.
All three artists, in quite
different ways, wrestle with spatial issues inherent in painting — indeed that is the strength of their paintings ---- there's tension between opening up deep
pictorial space and reasserting the flat picture plane, in conversation with painting's materialism and objectness.
The title of the exhibition is taken from the collected essays of Hans Hoffman, who in his essays challenged painting to describe depth in
different ways, outside of points and lines, to create
pictorial space.
Her paintings evoke what she calls «color desire,» as the fluidity of the forms engage us in seeking color resolutions across the
pictorial field, while drawing us to the
different spaces that the colors occupy and the ways they attract and repel each other.
The Fauves chose an entirely original artistic path: redefining the relationship between art and nature in their paintings, they allowed the
pictorial space to unfold through the powerful interaction of
different colours.
These
pictorial ideas are the basis of her artistic work, which investigates material and performative qualities of
spaces in
different contexts.
Joanne Mattera utilises a diagonally skewed grid as a structuring mechanism in her Chromatic Geometry series of paintings, enabling her to realise a set of diamonds intrinsically linked to the edges of the support, truncated by coloured triangles and held in a
pictorial space by the addition of a central horizon line that divides the painting into two
different coloured grounds before which the triangles appear to float.
In seemingly otherworldly
pictorial spaces, with their
different painterly styles, they relocate subjects in an atmosphere of isolation and absence.