Not exact matches
Other artists create abstract
landscapes that bring a
different and necessary vocabulary
in an exhibition that tries to address such a wide and contradictory array of topics and
perspectives, from personal desires and dreams to historical processes.
The photos — all black & white — play with
different perspectives and textures
in order to display the most complete picture of Atlantic City's
landscape.
This results
in a diagrammatic structure
in which
different perspective axes, with the added vectors of distance and proximity, are applied to the equation of
landscape and laboratory, representing both pictorial and abstract elements as contemporaneous and equivalent.»
Titled «
Perspective on Land, Sea and Sky,» the show mixes almost harsh sketchbook drawings
in ink by Porter (1907 - 1975) with saturated paintings by Dash (1931 - 2013) and
landscapes by Freilicher (1924 - 2014) and Wilson (1924 - 2015) that play up their
different approaches to
landscape.
The five international artists: Marlene Dumas (Netherlands), Carrie Moyer (USA), Aida Muluneh (Ethiopia), Eria «SANE» Nsubuga (Uganda), and Diane Victor (South Africa), lend
different global
perspectives to the ongoing history of portraiture
in this ever - developing technological and political
landscape.
A
different approach is offered by Donovan Wylie, who photographed the borderland watchtowers
in Northern Ireland, creating a systematic survey of the towers, their positions and
perspectives within the
landscape.
With this
in mind, he hopes to give us the opportunity to evaluate the
landscape from a
different perspective.
Several artists navigate directly the main thematic map of the exhibition; others chose a more personal approach, looking at the presence of domestic workers
in households, the public sphere, and the artists» lives, while another group of artists create abstract and poetic
landscapes that bring a
different and necessary vocabulary
in an exhibition that tries to address such a wide and contradictory array of topics and
perspectives, from personal desires and dreams, to historical processes.
Depending upon ones
perspective, the
landscapes were interrupted
in one of two
different ways.
(A map is simpler than the terrain it depicts, too — but you can't put the
landscape in your pocket, or quickly view it from
different perspectives, or conveniently use it to calculate route distances, all of which the simpler map enables.)