Founded by Yoshihara Jirō in 1954 near Osaka, its name translates as «concrete,» a reflection of the artists» desire to push beyond the abstract painting of the day with experiments
in pure materiality.
Not exact matches
In the first case, we advance toward a duration more and more scattered, whose palpitations, more rapid than ours, dividing our simple sensation, dilute its quality into quantity: at the limit would be the homogeneous, the
pure repetition by which we shall define
materiality.
The curatorial construction of image and space will draw attention to the semantics of dimensions, materialized movements, and semiotic layering
in line with
pure materiality.
In a group show, Reconfiguring Abstraction, at the Manitoba School of Art Gallery last year, Dunlop's work was notable for its focus on
pure materiality.
The precisely ordered composition of his work, as
in «The Magic Triangle» — one of the highlights of the show -, constructs a juxtaposition with the chaos that reigns all around it, creating a perfectly controlled but unreal space,
in which the
pure materiality of it's components vanishes
in the halo of an ideal world and dreaming environment: an artist studio where creativity is stimulated and fantasy is unleashed.
Whether a supplement for your studies, or just out of
pure interest, this book explores texts, transcripts and essays that will discuss the fundamental debates around
materiality in contemporary art.
In an art world that seems at times to relish over-intellectualization, this exhibition shows the
pure enjoyment
materiality can give us through intuitive explorations of tactility and sensory decadence.
Often quite «formless», especially compared to her earlier geometric paintings, Denyer's recent paintings are like gaseous non-substances, diaphanous veils,
pure illusion, immaterial yet at the same time exulting
in materiality.