Although I could see the attraction in terms of how to deal with architectural space and sweeping gestures that would bring
fragmentary objects together as one coherent pictorial unity, I'm curious what other impulse is behind it?
However, rather than offering abstracted,
fragmentary objects that intervene within the space as in his past exhibitions, Sibony appears to be aiming for more of a theatrical cohesiveness here, where grasping at a sense of unity becomes easier through staged encounters.
Many of the works are composed of multiple,
fragmentary objects made of plain canvas or lead wrapped around stretchers, which build up to loopy, engaging, figurative abstractions.
Not exact matches
The visual system has an obsessive desire to make whole
objects from
fragmentary evidence — such as a lion largely obscured by leaves and shadows.
In seventeenth - century «still lifes of display,» the damask cloth introduced unity into a
fragmentary depiction of displayed foodstuffs and
objects.
His figures - friends, colleagues, acquaintances, lovers - are mostly
fragmentary or disassembled, partial
objects, tangled up in their settings, sometimes almost unrecognisably.
He then photographs this
object through a crystal or prism, capturing the various patterns and
fragmentary images created by the ever - changing light refractions.
After her large - scale sculpture, sound and light installation at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, 2014), at Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art (Israel, 2014) and currently at Petach Tikva Museum of Art (Israel, 2015), the last episode at Grimmuseum remains more abstract and
fragmentary, dealing with the relatively domestic nature of the exhibition space, which allows Rodeh to shift from her monolithic large - scale works into more detailed
object - based techniques and elements.
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.
After the major survey exhibition held at Schaulager in 2007, the new show presents
objects, installations, drawings, and replicas of
objects from the domestic sphere such as washbasins, fireplaces, and drains, as well as
fragmentary body parts bearing psychological, political, and religious connotations.