The viewer senses the artist's hand and, in turn,
the objecthood of the prints.
Placing great importance on the physicality and
objecthood of recorded history, he argues the potential loss of future histories in the age of prolific digital documentation.
Beginning with the mute
objecthood of the commercial fabricator's cuboid boxes, Havel gently nudges their contents to produce small ripples and curls.
Because, for me, that show seemed to take the work in a more sculptural direction, one that emphasized materiality; whereas the earlier ones, such as those shown a couple of years ago at Office Baroque, had tempered the inherent
objecthood of the tarps with the painterly aspects of your choices related to color and, as you just mentioned, composition and cropping.
With an extreme close - up that introduces the materiality of paper, hand - drawn scribbles, and individual ink dots, it becomes not about things that are represented but about
the objecthood of images.
One simply enters the field as if form and space had no division, as if the subjecthood of the viewer and
the objecthood of the work were inseparable.
Mary Maclean's work in photography explores the intersections of spatial thought and the flux of things that are always on the move, even if captured in the apparently implacable, static,
objecthood of the image.
Image Tech: Making Pictures in a Post-Digital Age examines
the objecthood of the image, mark making and technology in the contemporary studio.
The development of Scully's oeuvre could be read as an increasing emphasis on the physicality and
objecthood of painting.
Three - dimensionality in sculpture in the way we are now thinking about it and attempting to achieve it is new, unexplored territory in the history of art; and I repeat the point that it has no connection with the appropriation of literal three - dimensions by painters, collagers and assemblers, or indeed the frontal pictorialism of Picasso, Smith or Caro, or
the objecthood of Minimalism..
Smith explored
the objecthood of painting, but rather than merely reiterating a deadening literalism or an empty formalism symptomatic of the 70's, he found a peculiar new kind of lyricism that still might have ramifications for the future of abstract painting.
Caesar's process brings a careful attention to
the objecthood of the many materials that go into his work.
While its iterated cuts conjure a dynamism that has an undeniable debt to Italian Futurist painting, the elongated, serial composition and slick
objecthood of Concetto spaziale, Attese can also be seen in relation to such Minimalist formats as the boxes and «stacks» created by Donald Judd, whose groundbreaking text «Specific Objects» had been published in 1965.
Not exact matches
Once a person is reduced to the status
of objecthood, violence against that object becomes intrinsically permitted.
But if the artist in question happens to be a woman, 1,000 years
of guilt, self - doubt and
objecthood have been added to the undeniable difficulties
of being an artist in the modern world.
The level to which the artist works her materials presents a level
of craft as excessive as her
objecthood.
What is begun with figurative photographs, his abstractions distill, bringing the malleability
of photographic
objecthood to the forefront
of every piece.
More importantly, however, Humphrey neither confined his understanding
of the «frame» paintings to Clement Greenberg's view
of flatness and the retinal nor aligned himself with Michael Fried's definition
of objecthood.
I keep a copy
of his 1967 essay, «Art and
Objecthood,» in my desk drawer.
This allowed Artschwager's unique objects to explore our own material culture and conceptually play with a sense
of the uncanny within our perception
of objecthood.
Como «s artistic practice is, as he describes it, «an engagement with and investigation into black... this includes but is not limited to: black as proprietary color / pigment — the mark used for description or obfuscation, black as darkness — the phenomena or event
of light's absence, and black as matter — the physical manifestation
of objecthood, including black holes and universal dark matter.»
Reflecting upon his works» intense sense
of objecthood, Burri explained that «I have no need for words when I try to express my ideas about my painting.
In the seminal 1967 essay «Art and
Objecthood,» critic Michael Fried argued that good art itself was at odds with much
of this new Minimalist work.
ASSISTED creates a kind
of visual community
of artists invested in a particular way
of investigating form and
objecthood.
Parallel narratives are therefore set in motion, both with the material concerns
of Quarry, and the potentially infinite circular conversations around the themes
of objecthood and desire explored within Fetish.
Although the legacy
of Abstract Expressionism still loomed large in the ethos
of Western art during these years, the aesthetic quality
of the series is more aligned with the contemporaneous prevalence
of Minimalism — brought to Richter's attention through Palermo — with its embrace
of industrial materials, supersession
of artistic temperament, and emphasis on
objecthood.
They gesture towards Abstract Expressionism, Post-Minimalist contestations
of objecthood, and allusions to the human body.
They look not unlike Ken Noland stripped
of all that talk
of objecthood.
Based on her recent installation at MOCA North Miami last year, it's clear that Henke likes making works that are in proximity to, but don't quite fit, standard notions
of objecthood.
As Michael Fried said in Art and
Objecthood in 1967 of Stella's work, «It aspires, not to defeat or suspend its own objecthood, but on the contrary to discover and project objecthood as su
Objecthood in 1967
of Stella's work, «It aspires, not to defeat or suspend its own
objecthood, but on the contrary to discover and project objecthood as su
objecthood, but on the contrary to discover and project
objecthood as su
objecthood as such.»
This suggestion
of imagery is balanced with concepts
of objecthood as expressed through constructions
of commonplace materials and shaped canvases.
Much
of the work is influenced by painting yet emphasizes its
objecthood by using methods
of presentation that reduce its spatial and pictorial implications.
In Beyond
Objecthood, James Voorhies traces a genealogy
of spectatorship through the rise
of the exhibition as a critical form — and artistic medium.
The unpainted area
of aluminium or perspex becomes the edit point but also exposes the semi-reflective fabric
of the work which helps lend the paintings a certain
objecthood.
Jessica Silverman Gallery is pleased to host the San Francisco launch
of James Voorhies's Beyond
Objecthood: The Exhibition as a Critical Form since 1968 (MIT Press, 2017).
In this show, Daignault seems to be emptying out her own bag: Trump, Freud, California landscape, gender, sex, psychology, capitalism,
objecthood, still life, vaginas, and painting in the era
of post-Obama traumatic stress.
In 1968, Robert Smithson reacted to Michael Fried's influential essay «Art and
Objecthood» with a series
of works called non-sites.
Beyond
Objecthood focuses on innovative figures, artworks, and institutions that pioneered the exhibition as a critical form, tracing its evolution through the activities
of curator Harald Szeemann, relational art, and New Institutionalism.
Mohammed's gold and silver nameplates commemorate those black men and women who were killed by police in 2016, and his penchant for using votive candles in his photographs takes aim at this loss
of innocence; however, here perhaps he is looking at
objecthood, and even that
of a photograph, as a means to tell stories
of resistance and hope.
Trisha Holt (Photography» 12) is part
of the group exhibition, In Pieces: Presence and
Objecthood in the Aftermath
of Technology that will be open to the public at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery from January 20 through March 24, 2017.
She works with both traditional and non-traditional materials in a contemplative painting and drawing practice that explores the surface,
objecthood, color, language, spatial relationships, and the spirit
of materiality.
Citing inspiration from the post-minimal style
of Richard Tuttle, the arte povera movement and Robert Rauschenberg's combine paintings, the artist's unique pieces incorporate ready - mades, and conceptual
objecthood, testing the traditional boundaries
of form and physicality.
Thomson's sculpture is a constellation image taken from a book encased in resin, preserving its
objecthood, alongside a drawing made
of simple star images in photo - luminescent ink which become illuminated in darkness, much like our experience
of the cosmos viewed from Earth.
One
of Minimalism's main chroniclers, the art historian (and Greenberg protegé) Michael Fried, explained the movement's conceptual concerns in his seminal 1967 essay «Art and
Objecthood» by saying that its practitioners saw painting as «an art on the verge
of exhaustion, one in which the range
of acceptable solutions to a basic problem — how to organize the surface
of the picture — is severely restricted....
He truly is dealing with Fried's ideal
of «
objecthood,» and the script is an object's process
of making and unmaking.
In the hands
of the four canonical artists associated with the movement — Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, and Robert Morris — the work typically consisted
of sculptural, bluntly geometrical works created from industrial materials (wood cubes, metal floor tiles, neon lights, thick felt drapes, etc.) that confronted viewers with their sheer, implacable
objecthood, revealing nothing but their relation to the viewer's own physicality.
Stucchi's research is devoted to the exploration
of the «materiality»
of artwork following an interest in the strategies
of vision that allows to it subvert its
objecthood.
The artists in this exhibition produce works that explore the multi-faceted characteristics
of the word «hood» in some fashion: a slang term for a Black neighborhood; a suffix in cultural theory concepts like «
objecthood,» «personhood,» «negrohood;» and Trayvon Martin's hoodie, which, along with his being an objectified young Black male, served as a signifier in an act
of radical injustice.
Annelie McGavin is a curator and the director
of Studio10: upcoming exhibition Image and
Objecthood: Santiago Mostyn, Peter Sutherland, Jai Lennard, Sept 7 - 30, 2012.
Even as arguments against modernism's supposed transcendence
of daily life were issued by a host
of global players — Hélio Oiticica and the tropicália movement in Brazil, Guy Debord and the Situationist International in France, the Art Workers» Coalition and early land art in the us — many influential curators and critics doubled down, most notably Michael Fried in his 1967 essay «Art and
Objecthood», a defence
of medium specificity and the priority
of immediacy and opticality.