The complex, abitrary layering of
fragmentary images and texts in the work of these affichistes has come to seem increasingly prescient of the information overload as we enter the new century.
He then photographs this object through a crystal or prism, capturing the various patterns and
fragmentary images created by the ever - changing light refractions.
Like a dissection of contemporary life, this fantasy of desire captures the kind of
fragmentary images our eyes catch when we hurriedly cross a city street.
Ramsay's principal strength as a storyteller is her epitomising of the «show, don't tell» philosophy whereby she refuses to spoon - feed her audience with overly expository dialogue and eloquent speechifying, preferring to utilise a mosaic - effect of
fragmentary images in her films and editing sequences in flashes that skirt around any sort of definitive reveal.
Boasting a labyrinthine, impressionistic plot that you can either get hung up on the details of or allow wash over you in a haze of
fragmentary images and evocative soundtrack details (we're more for the latter course, but both work out just fine), it's a prime example of a film that many will find frustrating in its opacity, but that brings a tenfold return on investment for those willing to let themselves be borne along by its currents.
This frequently takes the form of a single
fragmentary image — a monster face, a collapsing ceiling, or engulfing flames.
Not exact matches
But what is most striking about this
image is again its similarity to Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, where a religious order like the Benedictines is what keeps at least a
fragmentary knowledge of science alive after a nuclear catastrophe.
In a word that
fragmentary hoodlum is me, or is an
image I stole for literary purposes but which corresponds to my own insomnia.5
Resnaisian editing brings us into their relationship without preamble, and the
images drop us into the spaces between them, seeing each with the other, creating
fragmentary sequences of formal and emotional weight.
«Vanishing Points» explores traditional perspectival space,
fragmentary spatial depictions, and a desktop - publishing aesthetic of leveling in the age of digital -
image capture and analysis in works executed in a variety of media.
For many artists in the exhibition, the radical language of modernist painting developed during the early twentieth century - of collapsing and expanding picture planes responding to the frenetic pace and
fragmentary encounters of modern life - continues to evolve as distortions and mutations of the
image take on new permutations with each technological advance.
Uniting aesthetic and metaphysical questions, Khan has often employed techniques of layering and repetition to realise
fragmentary experience or disparate ideas as a single
image or solid form.
In the sardonic, Rauschenbergian «Crawling to Richard Pryor's House,» from 1994, a froglike, brown stuffed animal, sandwiched by paint and wood glue on a board, also bears a
fragmentary, appropriated
image of a child.
The winning
images seemed to be the ones that were more neutral, more
fragmentary, more blurred.»
In these works from the 1990s, he used the technically difficult dye - transfer method to apply
fragmentary photographic
images onto plaster and polylaminate panels to create ghostly effects.
For many artists in the exhibition, the radical language of modernist painting developed during the early twentieth century — of collapsing and expanding picture planes responding to the frenetic pace and
fragmentary encounters of modern life — continues to evolve as distortions and mutations of the
image take on new permutations with each technological advance.
Images that the public were never meant to see — of women disappeared by the Iranian regime — find fresh life in Soleimani's vivid,
fragmentary arrangements.
His analytical approach to form, lines and color often led him to create his
images from
fragmentary brushstrokes that will be further exploited by Cubists.
Heather Phillipson works with sculpture, moving
image, text and sound, creating video installations and «talking pictures» (video with live voice) that weave the viewer through a collage of
fragmentary and evolving ideas and narratives in multi-sensory environments.
Heather Phillipson works with sculpture, moving
image, text and sound, creating video installations and «talking pictures» (video with live voice) that weave the viewer through a collage of
fragmentary and...
Screen Memory however focuses on the lateral and idiosyncratic aspects of quotation and recollection; from the flat effect of simulation and the disquieting effects of
fragmentary reminiscence, to the absurd and humorous distortions and ruptures as familiar
images intertwine with flights of imagination.
Cool Memories takes its title and approach to a «
fragmentary and messy» structure from philosopher Jean Baudrillard's essay series, creating a space «where consciousness loses its ability to distinguish reality from its simulation» and promising «an assembly line for
images, for shots swallowed by the present that they're desperately trying to hold back.»
Serial projects made by individual
images often have a
fragmentary nature, so that the series is dependent on being read in its entirety to be understood.
Through casual and direct discussions Broken Screen offers a detailed navigation through the ideas behind the important yet under - documented visual language of nonlinear narratives, split screens and
fragmentary visual planes that define the most progressive moving
images today.
American conceptual artist Lutz Bacher (b. USA) will transform Frieze London's entrance corridor, sending arriving visitors through a monumental installation that brings together the artist's collection of found objects from B - movie film sets with
fragmentary references to the
images and rituals of political and popular culture.
It records and documents, operating like an eye; watching, following, committing
fragmentary items of interest to a vast bank of
images.