Sentences with phrase «insistent presence»

Displayed in a gallery, they retain their connection with the world outside at several removes, exerting an oddly insistent presence.

These animals are photographed in incongruous settings — an executive office, a café — and the insistent presence of these witnesses of the universe internalizes the relationship of existence, making it unfamiliar and opening an unexpected door, the self - portrait.

Those messy sculptures made from unglamorous materials that are such an insistent presence in the show — see also Helen Marten, winner of this year's Turner prize — are a reflection of art's current preference for authenticity.

Saccoccio has been a quiet but insistent presence on the American painting scene since the mid 1990s.

Not exact matches

The single most important characteristic of his art is its pure physicality; the presence of his work, either because of materials or the site, is always insistent and, at times, unsettling.

«Above all, the painting itself is insistent in its three - dimensional presence as a thing.»