Sentences with phrase «material presence»

But the persistent material presence of traditional sculptures is lacking here.

Since 2007 he has also been working with photographic transparencies mounted in light boxes, drawing on the medium's elusive material presence as a means to explore representation.

Rachel Whiteread's sculptures solidify space; these particular casts have a strongly material presence.

Mark Titchner's major installation When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever (2006) includes sound, moving image, light, sculpture and printed fabric in an installation with an imposing material presence.

Though relatively modest in scale, her works have considerable material presence by way of nuanced, layered brushwork and often playful compositions.

Dan Coombs responds to the exhibition Matter at APT Gallery, London, a show of artists whose works «display abstract qualities, have a strong material presence and use their own materiality as subject.»

Roger Hiorns» sculptures have a seemingly straightforward, functional material presence, but this is always combined with an element which provides a sense of the imaginary, the poetic, or the esoteric.

On the surface this results in a layered application of manipulated photographs and thickness of paint that engage the viewer in a new yet strangely familiar visual languageas one recognizes the representationwithin the visuals and understand material presence of the paint.

Yet the popular cultural fear of the spider reinforced in films such Arachnophobia (1990) sets up a duality inherent in a work structured on contradictions: it is both repellent as a cultural memory and attractive as a glistening material presence.

An admirer of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Leblon creates environmental installations and powerful and enigmatic sculptures, which have strong and seductive material presence.

Was Mr. Simon's «collecting bug» not a manifestation of a belief in nothing beyond one's own material presence?

«While Doig's current work reflects his recent relocation to Trinidad and the unaccustomed imagery this has inspired, the paintings lack material presence.

Kiefer's monumental archive of human memory gives overt material presence to a broad range of cultural myths and metaphors — from the Old and New Testaments, the Kabbalah, and ancient Roman history to the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan.

Townsend's sculpture is characterized by a solemn tension, a dramatic sparseness and a striking material presence.

Seventeen pieces from the last several years represented two primary impulses pursued by Turrell across his distinguished career - long engagement with light: deploying it, on the one hand, as a paradoxically material presence designed to draw our perceptual attention outward, toward the spectral volumetric «objects» it creates, and, on the other, as a dematerialized emanation designed

By interfacing light with stationary and moving mirrors, «Double Motion» seeks to destabilize the viewer by imbuing light rays with an almost material presence.

Sear's photographic and video works explore the image as sculptural form whereby the artist integrates different speeds of looking, contrasting physical scale, colour and vivid material presence.

The same EEG data finds material presence in a large light sculpture on the adjacent wall.

Compressing and collapsing pictorial space and material presence into one surface, Nesbit's Manifold paintings comprise a suite of dense, haptic images that promotes multiplicitous ways of viewing.

Seen at close range, as they necessarily are in this compact gallery, their transcendent luminosity is thrillingly at odds with their straightforward material presence.

Rachel Whiteread's sculptures solidify space; these particular casts have a strongly material presence, as Fiona Bradley suggests, «they hold and occupy space, speaking to the viewer and to each other of the domestic landmarks of human experience» (F. Bradley, Rachel Whiteread Shedding Life, exh.

The difference between his material presence and his divine presence is this.

One thing is particularly evident: anti-Kurdish politics and violence will persist as long as the political Kurdish identity is viewed as a threat and not a framework through which Kurds can claim the right to exist and have a normative political and material presence in the Middle East.

Rather than giving entrepreneurial authors no option except to take a booth like anyone else or have no material presence at BEA, the show this year is generating the dedicated author - services locus that's been missing in the Javits Center until now.

Paul's self - portraits open up a painterly and conceptual dialogue between the dual role of subject and artist — caught between self - possession and self - scrutiny — as well as offering an extended consideration of the essential dualities of the medium — its ability to capture qualities of form, light and atmosphere, and its material presence.

Painting has taken on color, weight, and material presence.

Finally, Guerzoni's recent paintings are imposing for their material presence and are «almost monochromes,» surfaces where wounds, lacerations and rays emerge from underlying layers onto a monochrome surface.

They are open and fluid, at once adhering to spatial illusion and falling back to material presence.

To insist that much more on the material presence of the work, he suspends some paintings apart from the walls, between wires from floor to ceiling, sometimes with the back exposed and sometimes back to back.

Artworks in their material presence can lay out new ways of relating and perceiving.

Through his rigorous physical approach to the material presence of painting, Bradford has addressed powerful issues of our time, including the AIDS epidemic, the misrepresentation and fear of queer identity, and systemic racism in America.

In Louis» work specifically, there is a sense of both material presence and immaterial affect through the urgency of color, which to this day feels fresh and generative to me.

The sense that the surface continues beyond its material presence was essential to expressing the infinite space into which human desire might reach.

The result being the revitalizing of found materials — or, as Rancière suggests, «the image as raw, material presence.»

Like Clement Greenberg, artists and critics have often spoken of the material presence of a work.

In contrast to most of her contemporaries - the many de Kooning «disciples» or «satellites» of the early 1950s - Frankenthaler made unmodulated color, rather than gesture or the material presence of paint, the principal carrier of emotion and associations in her work.

For the past 5 years, James Welling has explored the phenomena of color: its material presence as layers of dyes on a sheet of photo paper; its perceptual existence in the eyes of the viewer; and its symbolic place in both personal and historical contexts.

Ensuring that for the first time a work of art was not required to have material presence for it to be labelled art.

PICA's offices and gallery were located in the Wieden + Kennedy building, a historic cold - storage facility that Cloepfil renovated with extraordinary attention to material presence (reclaimed fir beams, bamboo, concrete, stainless - steel mesh) and natural light.

Around this site of physical decay, featured artists have considered the Hellfire history, its non-conformist allusions to the society of the 1700s, and its material presence as a crumbling ruin in the middle of a small Irish countryside town.

The material presence of a painting, its fragility and yet density — its sense of layered time which benefits from a long slow look in order to unfold — is in contrast to the slipperiness of the sanitised, disembodied image on a screen hastily scrolled through.

With its straightforward, rectilinear form and foregrounding of its color and its physical, material presence, Untitled 1972 is a perfect example of a minimalist object.

This material presence also emphasizes the fabrication process: the physical work of making art as well as related utilitarian commodities like tires, toilets, and teapots.

Moreover, artists associated with the Light and Space movement, such as Robert Irwin, responded to the phenomenological aspects of Morandi's works, particularly the spatial and temporal ambiguities produced through the play of color and light, the blurring of object and background, and the uncertain state of material presence and absence.

The artists in SURFACE SUPPORT are joined not by their aesthetic sensibilities, but by their mutual interest in creating artworks that marry their virtual presence to their material presence; a persistent thing and an evanescent stream of images.