Joe Bradley's
monochrome paintings and installations of several canvases seem to posit the existence of a mysterious tribe created from radically simplified units.
Not exact matches
It presents color - driven work in the form of
monochrome, hard - edge
and color field
painting, sculpture
and immersive
installations.
Other highlights of the exhibition include her Neverland series from 2002, where she photographed objects, either alone or in groups, on fields of color; Figure Drawings from 1988 - 2008, featuring an
installation of 40 framed images of the human figure; Objects of Desire from 1983 - 1989, where she made collages of found photographs
and rephotographed them against bright background of red, blue, green, yellow,
and black; Renaissance
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures and objects from disparate Renaissance paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
Paintings from 1991, featuring individual figures
and objects from disparate Renaissance
paintings isolated and re-photographed against monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career; and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text
paintings isolated
and re-photographed against
monochrome backgrounds; Doubleworld from 1995, where the artist transitioned from collaging
and re-photographing found images to creating stylized arrangements for the camera; Stills from 1980, where the artist compiled
and re-photographed over 70 clippings of press photos that capture people falling or jumping off tall buildings; Available Light from 2012, incorporating many of her techniques utilized over the course of her career;
and Modern History from 1979, in which she has re-photographed the front page of the newspaper with the text redacted.
This site - specific
installation by Olivier Mosset includes selected works from three integral series in the artist's oeuvre:
monochrome paintings, murals,
and custom motorcycles.
Phenomenology, for example, is there from the very beginning: those first geometric explorations of colour
and form reveal the same engagement with the viewer's sensorial experiences of space
and matter as the early «penetrables» — walk - in spaces constructed from
monochrome painted boards —
and the expanded participatory
installations, which Oiticica continued making until the very end of his life.
The current exhibition at Mazzoleni's London gallery, Colour in Contextual Play: An
Installation by Joseph Kosuth, is the latest of Kosuth's plays within plays, displaying
monochrome paintings by Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni
and Yves Klein alongside dictionary definitions from Kosuth's 1968 Art as Idea as Idea series.
With this in mind, the exhibition will feature a large - scale blue pigment
installation and a number of Klein's
Monochrome Paintings, the dazzling colours transforming the aesthetic experience of the opulent baroque surroundings of the Great Hall
and principal rooms.
The
installation organizes
and painstakingly classifies distinct geometries that flirt with plural interpretive possibilities, that evoke banners
and emblems, abandoned meanings
and reconfigured ideas, or that could simply serve to produce an infinite collection of
monochrome paintings and sculptures.
However, in contrast to the language - orientated works of conceptual artists of the 1960s
and 70s, Prina questions the exhibition
and classification conventions of art by museums, the market
and art history in
installations such as Exquisite Corpse: The Complete
Paintings of Manet (1988 - present)
and Monochrome Painting (1988 — 1989).
Josh Smith (closes on Saturday) This installment of a two - gallery exhibition features the artist as sardonic conceptual -
installation - painter with 19 slapdash
paintings that upend both the modernist
monochrome as devotedly hand - wrought fetish
and its post-modern successor, usually made from found material.
This room, entitled White model for a big still life, consisting of various sculptural
and architectural elements, blurs the lines between environment, architecture,
painting and installation by creating a
monochrome space that functions, in a sense, like the artist's own creative mindscape.
In his practice which includes
painting, photopainting
and installations, Thomas engages with the
monochrome in an at once speculative
and reflexive, reverential yet unorthodox way.
In his sculptures,
installations,
and canvases, he employs material such as cassette tape
and video equipment to create arrangements recalling Abstract Expressionist
paintings or Minimalist
monochromes.
The freedom that Dolla claimed in the 1970s came at a price: very few people knew what to do with this artist who could move from finger -
painted monochromes to land - art (large colored dots on beaches
and snow - capped mountains) to tiny fishing - lure sculptures, to large sulfurous
paintings made with smoking tapers, to hilarious combine
paintings that featured window shutters, to labyrinthine
installations created with yards of unrolled muslin fabric.