Sentences with phrase «lightness of»

Despite their material density, these paintings are distinguished by a lightness of touch, in which interlacing colors dart and spiral in controlled bursts of retinal fireworks.

As writer Diana Pinck describes on Josef's biography: «With the lightness of a true master's hand, he combines classic academic and abstract elements, fusing these, literally letting them run into each other with dripping rivulets of riveting colours and light: by using his signature drip effect along the bottom.

MONIKA OLKO GALLERY - «The Lightness of Being» has an Opening Reception Saturday, May 27, 2017 from 6 to 9 p.m..

2006Anthills, XL Gallery, Moscow The Lightness of Being, Resort Pirogovo, Moscow Region, Russia Underwater Barber, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Recent exhibitions include Singing Stones, organized by the Palais de Tokyo at the Roundhouse at the DuSable Museum of African American History, Unthought Environments at the Renaissance Society, and Bearable Lightness of Being at GRIMM Gallery in Amsterdam, where he will present a solo exhibition this Spring at their New York space.

Five artists - cum - designers, whose works are known for their humour and lightness of touch, are brought together to deliver a simple message.

This was the first and only time Wachtel used a cinematic image from Philip Kaufman's The Unberable Lightness of Being (1988).

With works by over 50 artists spanning five continents — including Alisa Baremboym, Pamela Rosenkranz, Marlie Mul, and Timur Si - Qin — The Great Acceleration explores the properties of materials «informed» by human activity, seen through the videos of participating artists Ian Cheng, Rachel Rose and Camille Henrot, or through the transposition of lightness of pixels onto monumental objects by Neil Beloufa and David Douard.

It's details and whispers like these that give the show a unity and fluidity between the early and recent work, contextualizing the bold lightness of touch and sense of humour of these most recent pieces within Bustamante's artistic concerns and obsessions.

Her semi-abstract landscape is reminiscent of Klee's miniatures, although perhaps without his lightness of touch.

Installation view of Jose Dávila: The Lightness of Weight at Sean Kelly, New York October 24 - December 6, 2014 Photography: Jason Wyche, New York Courtesy: Sean Kelly, New York

In his 1988 essay «Lightness,» published in the compendium Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino likens the writer's creative act to an indirect gaze on the world; just as Perseus defeated Medusa by following her movement in the reflection of his shield, the strength of the literary imagination is in a writer's ability to wade through the opacity of our literal world through the transformation of fact into fiction; subverting what Calvino describes as the «petrification» or «the weight» of ideas through the lightness of mythology and its visionary language.

The lightness of the sound is sometimes followed by a dissonant shock — the rush of an F - 14's sonic boom — you can't see it but you feel it happen, and your body shifts accordingly.

Paintings of fighter planes and studies of military horses are treated with a lightness of colour and ease of brushstroke that sometimes transforms their subject matter into décor.

I had always written off the lightness of cardboard boxes from the 1960s and the seemingly endless late silkscreens to reliance on assistants, but maybe they represent a falling off in collaboration instead.

With subtle materials (twigs, leaves, mirrors, and wisps of metal) and a lightness of touch, Raetz creates anamorphic objects and images that play with perception, making his viewers question what they see and how they look at the world.

These works undermine the distinction between painting and drawing, having the lightness of touch and deceptive simplicity of his drawing.

The exhibition Fiat Lux at the gallery Ruzicska in Salzburg, Austria, gathers works that deal with light by Jenny Holzer («Four Corners: Truisms, Living» and «Torso»), Brigitte Kowanz («Ad infinitum», «Brightness», «Remoteness» and «Vision»), François Morellet («4 í 4 no. 3» and «Lunatique neonly — 16 quarts de cercle No. 6»), Maurizio Nannucci («Listen to your eyes»), Keith Sonnier («Ballroom Chandelier»), James Turrell («Squat, Red»), and Richard Long («Seeming lightness of light»).

If Key's «culinary poetics» display a wit and lightness of touch effecting immaculate fusings and pleasing miscegenations, whose apparently effortless syntheses hint at a liberal, multicultural idyll, it may also, unwittingly, play into neo-orientalist «poco - Chinese - lite» hands.

Based on the notion of «the lightness of being» the artwork of paper fondue heads was made from recycled cotton rag pulp, recycled office paper & hand rolled hibiscus string.

Rather, she is using thin lines to clear away the black, like Richard Tuttle or Agnes Martin, broadening into the lightness of the page.

Looking at them, I sense the artist's enjoyment in imagining them, as well as in painting them, with the lightness of watercolour, the paint handling seems so congruent with these fluid geometries, precise enough, yet never uptight.

Many used the transparency and the lightness of the tones to capture the shifts of light occurring in nature, while others used the intensity of color to produce images which play with different tones, and values.

Opening: «Lightness of Being» at City Hall Park It's a good week for seeing multigenerational sculpture shows, apparently.

Andria Hickey is Curator at the Public Art Fund, where she has curated exhibitions throughout New York City with artists such as Danh Vō, Katharina Grosse, and Oscar Tuazon, as well as the group exhibitions Lightness of Being (2013), Configurations (2012 — 13), and A Promise Is a Cloud (2011 — 12).

The publication draws connections between recent works, including those on view at the SITElab exhibition, and earlier series including animated films The Simpson Verdict (2002) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2005), as well as his ongoing drawing series The History of Photography Remix.

GRIMM is proud to announce Bearable Lightness of Being, a tribute to the work and conceptual heritage of Ger van Elk (1941 - 2014).

These delicate works have drawn comparisons with the lightness of Alexander Calder's mobiles and the surreal sculptures of Alberto Giacometti.

The lightness of tone, though, matters less than the lightness or weight of materials.

The forms can read as representations of the immutable rock of mountains and simultaneously as the lightness itself of mythical floating forms.

Her lightness of touch makes the significant appear insouciant and the studied appear effortless.

But whereas Stella, in the 80's, would famously become ever more frenetic in his mixed - media approach, Smith stays with cooler and quite distinctively peculiar new colour combinations set off against each other with an altogether subtler energy and lightness of touch.

In other works, the same lightness of hand with paint, color and line, hints at the somber and dejected aspects of the domestic and quotidian - drooping flowers, in a vase or overcome by rain, and the view, from a distance, of the warmly lit interiors of people's homes through window panes.

Though each artist employs different media, the selected works share a lightness of being as well as a common thread in their rootedness in nature, whether literal or metaphorical.

It has all the lightness of a piano piece by Cage, whom I see as the conductor of this terrific example of curatorial chamber music.

Did you ever read The Unbearable Lightness of Being?

Sabine, now ninety - two years old, is not the nostalgic type — an insatiable curiosity and lightness of being have continuously driven her life and photographic work.

His gilded threads on paper have the lightness of leaves or lute strings.

Her lightness of touch has something of early Philip Guston — which, be it duly noted, already bordered on complacency, enough that Guston abandoned all - over painting soon enough for the cartoon angst that one remembers today.

While the title alludes to the well - known 1984 novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, this exhibition focuses on a literal lightness of materials and engages the tradition of abstraction.

A crack of synesthetic thunder sounded inside me as I felt the cold, hard marble through my shoes, grasped the lightness of the canvas by comparison, and came to terms with an artist bypassing Serra's fearsome weight and brawny power; finding essences between painting and sculpture, perception and experience, I crossed a delicate line between something I'd never seen before and something I already feared I'd never see again.

The lightness of being in his work, the range of forms, contours, edges, saturations and coloring — and the lightness of the spaces in between his network of slashes, swatches, and other painterly exchanges, is so navigable for the eye that the paintings are airy, permeable, and most significantly, written in a language that is all his own.

Their is a surety and lightness of touch with the paint handling... not too fussy and not too haphazard, that is very pleasing.

The lightness of an era has seen, even been touched by Minimalism, but without losing its faith.

The artist has then appropriated the image with a subversion and lightness of touch, with which Trockel often treats the «sitters» of her portraits.

Based in Paris, Léo invites us to rediscover and question our social environment with a lightness of touch, humour and sensitivity.

To uplift our spirits and take us into the lightness of spring, Greenwich Peninsula's NOW gallery welcomes its colourful new design exhibition for 2018 — Harmonics in Space by Fred Butler.

As we continue to battle the winter months, a new exhibition by Fred Butler at NOW Gallery will provide an uplifting relief from London's cold, dark streets, taking us gratefully into the lightness of spring.

Consistently, a lightness of touch is evident, contrasting sharply against explorations of deteriorating mental health and, thus, allowing these fantastically rendered yet absolutely relatable stories the room they need to breathe.

As for the build quality, the lightness of the headset doesn't quite make it feel like a premium, durable product.