Through different mediums and processes, the artists create complex relationships between
elemental shapes and forms that draw inspiration from both painting and ceramics.
Not exact matches
Then there is a layer of cotton absorbency
forming the pocket,
and another thin layer inside the pocket (in a loop
shape, like you might see on an
Elemental).
After leaving Jepson in 1951, Hammersely recalled that he «bumped into hunch painting by accident,» inspired by the
shapes that he saw in the figure
and in still - life, reducing them to
elemental form.
Gradually, recognizable
forms begin to emerge from the midst of this
elemental drama: the unmistakable almond
shape of an eye, repeated in skewed alignment
and bisected by vertical cascading lines that suggest the bridge of a nose.
After leaving Jepson in 1951, Hammersely recalled that he «bumped into hunch painting by accident,» inspired by the
shapes that he saw in the figure
and in stilllife, reducing them to
elemental form.
PaceWildenstein is pleased to present a group exhibition that brings together works by some of the most significant artists of the twentieth
and twenty - first centuries, paying homage to the square, an
elemental form that has helped to define
and shape the practice of modern
and contemporary art.
Stephen Antonakos, Paul Chan, James Turrell
and Leo Villarreal focus light into
elemental geometric
shapes to give it physical presence
and sculptural
form.