Von Heyl's best paintings are at once
obdurate objects and elusive phantoms.
Physical reality, including the most
obdurate objects, is composed of wave patterns, vibrations, energy events, electronic happenings.
Not exact matches
What does it mean to craft these obsolete machine
objects by hand, to cobble them together in clay, to paint them colors the Princess designers never dreamed of, to render them
obdurate — and useless?
And yet, the works maintain an
obdurate sense of
object - ness, translated to schematic abstract forms: «There's a spatial or temporal proximity that induces the mind to perceive it in relation to its surroundings, while on the other hand [the work is seen] as a complete volumetric structure on the surface.»
Tuttle's diminutive solids proposed a kind of presence wholly unlike that of Minimalism's comparatively towering
objects, which were assertive and
obdurate and scaled to the full height of the body rather than to its grasp.