«Although our display may seem to put many different
kinds of objects together in a haphazard fashion, it actually restores them to their proper historical context.
Not exact matches
Because gyroscopes move in three dimensions, if you connect them with springs and spin them with motors, you can observe all
kinds of things about the rules that govern how
objects move
together.
If I'm trying to describe a certain
kind of game, one where you wander, examine
objects, and use them to mentally piece
together a story, 2013's Gone Home is the first example I reach for.
«It was formed out
of wood or plastics, materials that could be put
together permanently in some way and certainly ending up as some
kind of object.
As the title
of the exhibition suggests, lapses in Thinking By the person I Am, one is confronted with not only typographical fragmentation, but also disconcertion for placing the work
together with the train in some
kind of logical context; by using the story
of her body and
objects that she interacts with, Pryde literally derails the misconceived notion that we are what we own.
It consists
of four
kinds of objects: your paper weavings, which you display on horizontal pedestals; inkjet print
of textile patterns; enamel paintings, and — smack in the middle
of the exhibition — an installation
of your Oyster # 9 (2014)-- a giant, round painting mounted on what look like several dustbin lids welded
together.
Already present are hallmarks
of his mature style — the use
of shadow and color coming
together in the outline
of objects — and the
kind of formal investigation that consistently set him apart from the Pop artists.
Inviting endless ways
of bringing
together different
kinds of art, it generates new readings and experiences
of particular
objects and creates «inter-work» relationships, which may even reveal hidden and mysterious coalitions and affiliations.
The stools, designed to be assembled
together from flat forms without any hardware, conflict the nature
of the sculpture as a whole, asking the audience to identify and consider all parts
of the art
object and its close relationship to design
of all
kinds.
In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book «the finest work
of Surrealist fiction,» noting that de Chirico «invented for the occasion a new style and a new
kind of novel... his long run - on sentences, stitched
together with semi-colons, allow a cinematic freedom
of narration... his language, like his painting, is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing
objects that are more real than reality.»
The exhibition is a
kind of scientific autobiography that reviews fundamental chapters in its history starting from the exhibition «Superarchitettura» (1966), in which
together with Archizoom, the group proposed for the first time a radical rethinking
of architecture and design, replacing the traditional domestic images with a world
of alienating
objects and visions.
As he sees his work as part painting, part sculpture, Sinsel brings these different
kinds of found
objects together in tight, simple, yet detailed compositions by means
of craft - based practices such as metalworking, ceramics, weaving and sewing.
Collected
together in this book they constitute a
kind of self - portrait through
objects.
I was absolutely fascinated to hear from Messina, the young man who invented the Twitter #hashtag (before heading to Google) as a
kind of virtual «portkey» (those enchanted
objects in the Harry Potter saga that allowed a group to travel
together).
Together with the novel Echo Look and Echo Show, they demonstrate how Amazon is willing to push the envelope on the
kinds of objects Alexa can inhabit.