Today we bring you an article written by Andrew Tosiello on the kind of
evanescent art made by Klein and its kin.
Berger captures Cunningham's
evanescent art, constructing a new experience while at the same time preserving the original, thus operating very much within the aesthetic framework Cunningham himself proposed.
Not exact matches
«This body of work explores the idea of
art as a natural and
evanescent object, meant to represent a memory or reflect a specific moment in time.
The works are a way of mirroring a seemingly
evanescent present with a distinct patch of
art history that seems to share much in common with the current moment.
By its nature performance is momentary and
evanescent, which is part of the point of the medium as
art.
The exhibition presents approximately 110 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings from his early «metaphysical» works to his late
evanescent still lifes, culled mainly from Italian collections, including those formed with Morandi's help by his friends and by renowned scholars of his
art.
This figure, often fragmented, sometimes even completely abstracted, takes on various forms, from the human face, at once raw material and object of symbolic representation, as with Benglis's objectifying caresses, to the full body as place and tool of the trial and pleasure of repetition, as with Nauman's amateur choreography, bordering on the absurd, to the traces and physical prints left by the artist - creator (or the «
art worker» in his service), as with the irregular random geometry of LeWitt, to the peers (Donald Judd) and tutelary figures in the history of
art who inspire Flavin's
evanescent structures... Now a disenchanted statement «Double Eye Poke» offers a challenge to the being of perception and thought.
Tuttle's
art is not without political implications, but the way he blends humor into his simple means, and the way his work often seems
evanescent, gives it a different ultimate effect.
Calgary, CA (2015), An
evanescent fix, VITRINE, London, UK (2015)-- Future Station: Alberta Biennial (2015),
Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton CA
Art (2015), The Painting Project, GALERIE DE L'UQAM, Montreal Quebec, Canada, (2013), Broadcast and Tape Modern No. 25, Tape Club Berlin, Germany, (2012).
Group exhibitions include: `... in Dark Times», Castle eld Gallery, Manchester (2017); Bermuda Biennial, The Bermuda National Gallery, Bermuda (2012, 2014 and 2016); «Incunabula», Norwich Cathedral Library (2015); RCA / ECA Edinburgh Sculpture Court, Edinburgh, Scotland (2015); «An
evanescent x», VITRINE (2015); «Escape to a Sparkling Moment», Bloc Projects, Shefield UK (2015); «Bending Light», Home - Platform, Bristol, UK (2014); «END», Cactus, Liverpool, UK (2014); Royal College of
Art WIP Show, RCA, London, UK (2013) and Brussels, Belgium (2012).
He has been exhibited Internationally, recent group exhibitions include: «Identify your limitations, acknowledge your periphery», VITRINE, Basel (2017); `... in Dark Times», Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2017); Bermuda Biennial, The Bermuda National Gallery, Bermuda (2012, 2014 and 2016); «Incunabula», Norwich Cathedral Library (2015); RCA / ECA Edinburgh Sculpture Court, Edinburgh, Scotland (2015); «An
evanescent fix», VITRINE, London (2015); «Escape to a Sparkling Moment», Bloc Projects, Sheffield UK (2015); «Bending Light», Home - Platform, Bristol, UK (2014); «END», Cactus, Liverpool, UK (2014); Royal College of
Art WIP Show, RCA, London, UK (2013) and Brussels, Belgium (2012).
As Cunningham said to journalists at the time: «It's really a concern about how you preserve the elements of an
art which is really
evanescent, which is really like water.»
Her many installations and
evanescent sculptures have ended up not in the permanent collections of museums and
art connoisseurs but in the skip.
W Reviews Critical Eye By Aaron Gell
ART If art is an attempt to capture the evanescent beauty of the world around us, the better to package it for resale, it should come as no surprise that ANYA GALLACCIO lives in a council fiat and drives a 13 - year - old c
ART If
art is an attempt to capture the evanescent beauty of the world around us, the better to package it for resale, it should come as no surprise that ANYA GALLACCIO lives in a council fiat and drives a 13 - year - old c
art is an attempt to capture the
evanescent beauty of the world around us, the better to package it for resale, it should come as no surprise that ANYA GALLACCIO lives in a council fiat and drives a 13 - year - old car.
But this kind of realism which depends also a lot on illusionism, is, of course,
evanescent, frail and difficult to establish» (see exhibition catalogue, Howard Hodgkin: Forty Paintings: 1973 - 84, London, British Council, Whitechapel
Art Gallery, 1984, p. 97).
But Hammons» use of the
evanescent has a far broader agenda than similar attempts by earlier artists such as Marcel Duchamp and Richard Tuttle who utilised materials to challenge elitist conceptions of what constitutes a work of
art.