Painstaking reconstruction
of fragments of text has revealed the working draft of an ancient Jewish calendar and priestly duty schedule.
They glance at the cases, turn the pages quickly and have a hasty glimpse
of the fragments of lawyerly prose.
Based on sketches and photographs of places he visited, people he met, these records
of fragments of life mark a shift in the artist's practice known until now for its mark - making abstract canvases.
Now, following six years of archival research by Dada scholar Adrian Sudhalter, many
of those fragments of the never - realized whole have been assembled for the exhibition «Dadaglobe Reconstructed,» on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
It also coincided with Assemblage art - artwork made out
of fragments of «found» objects such as household debris, urban detritus - indeed any (usually recognizable) materials, large or small.
In 1953, Krasner began to destroy both Pollock's and her own work to generate small collages composed
of the fragments of sliced canvases.
The work consists
of fragments of visual material — at times unexpected and provocative — which draw from elements of Schneemann's personal environment.
The scenes which consist
of fragments of memories appear to become diluted, diffused.
Sergey Lotsmanov's works are an image of a virtual world constructed
of fragments of everyday experience.
Johnson's portraits are created from a collection
of fragments of found, collected and photographed images.
More unpredictably, Berlin's Aurel Scheibler has a sober green - pink Ad Reinhardt (1950) and Alice Neel's unusual depiction
of fragments of a brownstone façade, «Windows» (1965), complementing Michael Wutz's perversely ornamental etching of a dolls» - house interior of horror.
The canvases weave something entirely new out
of the fragments of perception and memory.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of exhibitions and programmes, adds: «The German art historian Erwin Panofsky said that we invent the future out
of fragments of the past, and that is exactly what is happening here.»
Björn Roth» revisits a major project shown previously in New York in 2004 at P.S. 1: «Solo Szenen (Solo Scenes)», created by Dieter Roth in his final year (1997 — 1998), is the artist's attempt at illustrating life as the accumulation of vast quantities
of fragments of data.
Sarah Crowner's latest pieces, for example, are composed
of fragments of painted canvas stitched together in the process of «figuring and unfiguring».
Here the use of a 2,100 metre long ribbon, made by tying together thousands
of fragments of ropes, shoelaces, electrical cables, corresponded to the length of the metal fences and barbed wire raised between Slovenia and Croatia on the 11th of November 2015; the first day Europe started raising barriers and closed its borders to the flow of migrants.
In this three - dimensional video animation of a two - dimensional photograph, Elvis's body has been digitally reconstructed in the round, built from hundreds
of fragments of original photographs of the star.
(1988) consists
of fragments of brightly colored broomsticks arranged in a loose, spiral configuration.
Her works have been exhibited widely in Utah and she is also the co-author, with Katharine Coles, of Stranger and Stranger, a bestiary composed
of fragments of her paintings and poems by Coles.
l don't like the idea
of fragments of Picasso's paintings appearing on cushions, for example, yet Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Alexander Calder and Nicholas de Stael all dared to design fabrics.
An epic eight - metre long sculpture made from thousands
of fragments of porcelain will go on display this winter at the Harley Gallery.
Overtly citing modernism, Distill (1988) consists
of fragments of brightly colored broomsticks arranged in a loose, spiral configuration.
These constructions, which are termed «cuciti a macchina», consist
of fragments of his own clothing or other dyed fabric, which were stretched over canvas or collaged into abstract compositions and occasionally enhanced with paint.
The pockmarked surface of Point (2009), consisting
of fragments of shattered eggshells, resembles the fossil of a prehistoric arrowhead.
Each painting operates on multiple levels, consisting
of fragments of information.
In the first room of the exhibition the audience meets an extensive floor work made
of fragments of Campau's characteristic painted acrylic sheets produced over the past decade.
Their room in the Turner prize exhibition contains a 45 - minute film made
of fragments of other films, a row of TV sets playing an obscure documentary about Ancient Greece, and a densely packed book.
In his recent works, these collages consist
of fragments of hard - core pornography as well as sensual details - such as a bit of drapery or a glimpse of skin - cut out from art book reproductions of Renaissance paintings.
Solo Szenen, the culmination of a series of written, film, and video diaries that Roth began in the early 1980s, is his attempt at illustrating life as the accumulation of vast quantities
of fragments of data.
Exhibitions include «Illuminations d'eau» (directed and choreographed by Robert Castle, with a creative reconstruction
of fragments of the (now lost) original score by Willy Merz) at the Fondazione Mario Merz, Turin (2008); «The solitary body», Riccardo Costantini Gallery, Turin (2013); «Glasstress 2011», 54th Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venice Bienale, on display at the Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti and the Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass on Murano.
About the works in that show, Ed McCormack in Gallery & Studio said «For Gilbert, the continued exploration
of the fragments of reality particularly via the computer & creating strategies to provoke accidents... inspire the search for & evolution of the next image.»
Likewise, L.A. artist Frances Stark is known for creating abstracted patterns out
of fragments of text.
His artistic process involves collecting the forms
of fragments of the city today and the found objects that create the assemblage of what is currently giving Athens its character or what has at times defined or altered it.
Accompanied by drawings and photographs
of these fragments of Earth, which overall look more like a shrine to a beloved one that has passed away, this piece is part of a body of work entitled, Star Dust.
Appel's new series of paintings begin as primary arrangements: cut - out paper forms referencing the portholes of Jean Prouvé's Maison Tropicale are combined with Appel's own photographs
of fragments of his previous works, landscapes, and images of Paolo Soleri's Arcosanti.
Oscar Tuazon: Live, the second major publication on the American artist (born 1975), concentrates on an exhibition of new sculptural works at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, including a full - scale reproduction
of fragments of the artist's house in Los Angeles.
Finally, our fifth contributor Rob Pitt joined the website starting with his touching review
of Fragments of Him.
This spirit is in search
of the fragments of the Seasons and needs an envoy to meet the Guardians of the Seasons, large ancestral creatures who embody the essence of the Season they are protecting.
The dog is injected with a small, but weakened dose
of fragments of the the actual disease, that it is going to prevent.
That we are able to discern so much about a character from about 25 minutes of exposition, composed simply
of fragments of daily life — no high drama, no overt statements of purpose or desire — has to do with the meticulous attention paid by the director and his leading actress to rhythms, textures, and small details of behavior.
Several layers
of fragments of food in the stain form wreck the texture of your tooth.
Myriads
of fragments of this rare semi-precious stone are blended into the fabric to enrich the color and redefine the concept of quality.
They were surprised to find that the samples contained a small number
of fragments of variola virus — the genetic remains of infection with the virus that causes smallpox.
Researchers have developed a blood test that detects the presence
of fragments of mutated genes that are present in colon cancer cells.
According to her, the research included four of the five functionally distinct carbon pools whose study is recommended by the United Nations (UN) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC): aboveground biomass (live plants), dead organic matter, leaf litter (layer that contains a combination
of fragments of leaves, branches and other decomposing organic matter) and soil (up to 30 centimeters (cm) in depth).
The Bristol group has now revealed how the administration
of fragments of the proteins that are normally the target for attack leads to correction of the autoimmune response.
This will give way to the development of a drug to be used in gene therapy against neurodegenerative diseases based on small molecules which enhance the expression of the gene and / or the use
of fragments of the Klotho protein itself.
Hundreds
of fragments of pottery have been found since the 1960s in Xianrendong cave in south - east China
To expedite the cutting - and - pasting
of fragments of DNA, the pioneers of the method inserted a human growth hormone gene alongside other modified DNA.
This has led me to the central Amazon, where I've been investigating how the isolation
of fragments of rain forest by logging and cattle ranching influences the growth of plants found in the forest understory.