In addition to hundreds of drawings from throughout his career, this exhibition features never - before - exhibited
fragments of text from Pettibon's constantly growing collection of source material, offering rare insight into his artistic process and singular mind.
By silk - screening
fragments of text from an essay by the French thinker Maurice Blanchot directly onto the surface of the paintings, he integrates language with his iconic images.
Not exact matches
By providing only
fragments from biblical books (in this case part
of an oracle
from Isaiah, a reassurance
from Paul, a parable
from Jesus), they leave a suggestive opening, not only to other
texts...
This parallel has been obscured by the fact that the term «kerygma» can ambiguously refer both to
fragments of primitive Christian preaching embedded in the New Testament
text, and to the word
of God I encounter
from the pulpit or in my neighbour today.
They think also that in the late
fragment,
from a spiritual narrative
text, Jesus speaks
of Jerusalem, his spiritual Wife, obviously!
By providing only
fragments from biblical books (in this case part
of an oracle
from Isaiah, a reassurance
from Paul, a parable
from Jesus), they leave a suggestive opening, not only to other
texts but also to the even more
fragmented tissues
of our individual lives.
(If, as the Qumrân
fragment most recently published by Allegro seems to confirm, the «teacher
of righteousness»
of this sect really was put to death and his return was awaited, still what most decisively separates this sect
from the original Christian community [apart
from the other differences, for which see my article, «The Significance
of the Qumrân
Texts», J. B.L., 1955.
The latest discovery: The
fragment, which contains snippets
from the Coptic
text of the Gospel
of....
It was such a refreshing change
of pace
from the rarefied atmosphere
of the «
Fragments of Time and Space» temporary exhibition at the Hirshhorn and their too often BS - ridden
text panels.
Against the backdrop
of our
fragmented media landscape, Donald Trump is the first candidate not to come
from the side
of the traditional [
text - based] media conversation, but
from the media conversation that depends on television and the internet.
The BMA presents Front Room: Adam Pendleton, a dramatic installation
of new and recent work by the New - York based artist that examines the relationship between abstraction and representation through layered and
fragmented texts and images sourced
from the artist's personal library.
Like graffiti scrawls, her
fragmented texts also seem to justify the need for and the relevance
of platitudes, especially if they emanate
from a personal vision or
from issues that hit home too closely.
New Yorker Erica Baum photographs
fragments of images and
text from printed sources, while Canadian - born Moyra Davey creates photographs and videos that are simply about reading and writing.
As the
fragment of text suggests, the man holding the milking stool and pail is Calvin Coolidge, U.S. President
from 1923 - 29.
Exhibiting internationally since the early 1990s, Suzanne McClelland's practice includes both large - scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting
fragments of speech or
text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.
With illegible
fragments of text arranged over sculpted surfaces, Chun creates harmonious areas that fade
from light to dark in the manner
of a flock
of birds changing direction.
Her practice includes both large - scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting
fragments of speech or
text from various political and cultural sources and exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.
The drawings, which combine
fragments of text with images culled
from American popular and underground culture, dominated the exhibition, due in part to the sheer number
of them and in part to the appeal
of familiar images drawn in a simple graphic style.
In the nine - second video loop «Untitled (Touchscreen),» a still image
of a smiling young couple is split into overlapping blue and red versions that flicker
from place to place, alternating with moments
of black; the handsome print «Untitled (Coil Whine)» puts a large, black and white image
of fingers beside wavering green lines
of video distortion and under a block
of marbleized orange and a
fragment of sans - serif
text reading «UP YOUR DAY.»
Likewise,
texts collected
from the public domain and
fragments of news stories are promoted
from the quotidian to the iconic.
Riley uses a double tilted ellipse in various combinations that suggest the letter «O» seen
from different angles and cut - and - pasted the layout
of Reinhardt's
text -
fragments in rotated blocks throughout the eight page booklet.
This ambivalent discourse is composed through a series
of paintings that draw
text fragments from my Twitter archive between 2009 and the present as well as a series
of self - reflective You / I statements on paper.
This exhibition presents work
from three distinct series primarily focusing on the debut
of Stills; works revealing Baum's juxtapositions
of fragmented images and silhouettes
of text.
Her photographic practice flowered in the 1980s, becoming famous for its examination
of gender and race: her works juxtapose
text fragments with images
of African - American men and women, their faces often hidden
from the lens.
Some
of the works included in the exhibition explicitly engage with Eliot and his writing, such as Philip Guston's grim deathbed painting East Coker: T.S.E. (1979); David Jones's painted inscription Nam Sibyllam (1958), made as a gift for Eliot, which combines the
text from Petronius that is The Waste Land's epigraph with the opening lines
of the poem and other phrases connected to the Grail myth; Graham Sutherland's two Illustrations for T. S. Eliot (1973); and Vibeke Tandberg's The Waste Land (2007), which consists
of 36 collages in which the artist has cut out each
of the words
of the poem, and re-organised them alphabetically and in groups, at once
fragmenting Eliot's poem
of «broken images» even further and bringing its underlying verbal structure to light.
«Through the dissecting and re-arranging
of mass produced information based material, such as newspapers, brochures, comics and packaging, the artists
fragment our visual and cognitive understanding
of images and
text, and force us to reconsider the familiar
from a completely new perspective.»
For Come and Go, Steiner has provided a 20 plus year photo archive on a variety
of sensitive topics that range
from state - sanctioned exploitation and violence to planetary implosion; for
Fragments from Expeditions: Destitution, Deterioration, and Devastation, Burdin has included his new satirical,
text - based paintings along with video documentation
of live performances.
Working with
texts, video
fragments and choreographies, either composed himself or strategically plundered
from elsewhere, these works propose a historiographic model that acknowledges doubt, subjectivity and reduction as inevitable factors when making sense
of past events.
For this project, Finley gathered selections
from her art and writing on the subject
of HIV / AIDS, including performance
texts, poetry, letters, and other
fragments.
Juxtaposing geometric shapes,
fragments of painted and mechanically reproduced
text, pictures
of masks, book pages, and historical photographs, Pendleton simultaneously indexes and conflates his sources, critically examining the resonance
of ideas
from varied aesthetic and theoretical perspectives.
The
text — whose title is drawn
from Amir Baraka's 1964 poem «Black Dada Nihilismus» — is an assimilation
of fragments from sources ranging
from Hugo Ball's 1916 Dada manifesto to Ron Sillman's poetry to Pendleton's own writing.
, Arp Museum, Remagen, DE The Concept Sublime 35 Years, Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, DE Carolina Collects: 150 years
of Modern and Contemporary Art
from Alumni Collections, Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina, US In Deed Certificate
of Authenticity in Art, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL Farbe im Fluss, Weserberg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, DE Multiples Uniques Noués, Galerie Georges Verney - Carron, Lyon, FR An Autobiography
of our Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, CA
Fragment, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, FR Arte Povera International, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, IT Afterall Benefit Auction and Dinner, 45 Millbank, London, UK The Bidoun Auction, Christie's, London, UK
TEXT, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, DE Art & Project Bulletins 1 - 156 / September 1968 - November 1989, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK; Christophe Daviet - Thery, Paris, FR Children's Museum
of the Arts Art Auction 2011, 82 Mercer, New York, US Many Small Paintings Some Objects Three Videos, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, US Museum
of Affects, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, SI Niemandslicht, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany Peter Noever In Pursuit
of Curation: Art and Architecture, Ace Museum and Southern California Institute
of Architecture, Los Angeles, US The View
from a Volcano - The Kitchen's Soho Years, 1971 — 85, The Kitchen, New York, US Érudition Concéte 4, FRAC - Île - de-France Le Plateau, Paris, FR Le Château, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, FR
Exhibiting internationally since the early 1990s, Suzanne McClelland's practice includes both large - scale paintings and works on paper, often extracting
fragments of speech or
text from various political and cultural sources, exploring the symbolic and material possibilities that reside within language.
Fragments of elusive
text and imagery begin to reveal themselves upon closer consideration —
from a looming large black skull, an American flag, and snippets
of words such as «CANDY» or «KING» — only to coalesce into abstraction when seen
from afar.
In this series the artist combined her love
of decoration — in this instance, Islamic ornament — with her longstanding passion for cartography, so that interspersed throughout the works are maps
of the Gaza strip, the Pale
of Settlement (the territory within Imperial Russia restricted for Jews
from 1835 - 1917, to which Kozloff traces her ancestry), as well as
text references to the Tasman Sea, among other word
fragments.
Fragments from American society have been distilled into key images, which often incorporate
texts of varying length,
from one word to several paragraphs.
They depict body parts — backs
of heads, an ear, hands in action, etc. presented in counterpoint to descriptive
text fragments gleaned
from party games, proverbs, bits and pieces
of conversation, and cliches.
In addition to her growing archive
of 8 mm and 16 mm found footage, the artist draws
from official documents, newspaper clippings and personalized accounts
of history, to project a multiplicity
of voices through combined
fragments of text, image and music.
For the Sharjah Biennial 11 in 2013, he staged a performance
of a South Asian qawwali ballad — the lyrics
of which were taken
from fragments of curatorial
texts translated into Urdu — in the streets
of Sharjah, tying together issues
of contemporary art and migrant labor.
These include e-mail filtering; automatic parsing
of text segments in large data blocks, such as those recovered through an «undelete» process,
from unallocated computer space, or
from partially recovered file
fragments; language recognition algorithms for detecting
text in a variety
of languages; a filtering algorithm for scanning recovered data blocks using multiple
text encoding detection methods; and automatic recovery
of text from corrupt forensically - recovered documents.