Not exact matches
Where Gore Verbinski («The Ring») at least knew how to set a disconcerting, sickly mood, Gutiérrez can't unnerve you with a location or a situation; he overdoses on close - ups
of his actors without indicating he cares about them as characters, to the detriment
of any
spatial coherence or framing
tension.
Herrera creates striking
spatial tension by the precise placement
of a thick graphic L - shaped black line that dissects a bold field
of saturated green in Untitled (1976).
A master
of crisp lines and contrasting chromatic planes, Herrera creates symmetry, asymmetry and an infinite variety
of movement, rhythm and
spatial tension across the canvas with the most unobtrusive application
of paint.
Her rich, carefully layered compositions and deliberate use
of color create
spatial tensions resulting in a sense
of robust sculptural form.
Curator Branka Benčić elaborates further: «Artistic positions engage with issues
of (re) presentation, structure and construction
of the work
of art, or the act
of «exhibiting» itself, pointing to
tensions between the observer and the observed, exploring
spatial relationships and interactions between objects.»
In this context, the contrast
of drawing and object is seen as a dialogue in which the
tension between
spatial presentation and actual experience is ventilated.
This formal
tension between colour and form results in an ambiguous field
of spatial depth and illusion, as seen in Sin Título (Untitled), 1955.
Carmen Herrera is able to simultaneously create harmony, asymmetry and an endless diversity
of movements, rhythms and
spatial tensions across her canvases by using nothing more than the most inconspicuous application
of paint.
All three artists, in quite different ways, wrestle with
spatial issues inherent in painting — indeed that is the strength
of their paintings ---- there's
tension between opening up deep pictorial space and reasserting the flat picture plane, in conversation with painting's materialism and objectness.
At its best, this psychological and
spatial tension provides creative fodder for some
of contemporary art's most compelling works.
The work
of Arnout Killian alludes to an equally mysterious
spatial realm, often bordering on the eerie with an underlying psychological
tension.
The impromptu distinguishes the practice
of Kvas, whose works are organisms made up
of tensions of matter, stratification; chromatic relationships,
spatial evocative and expressive.
The combined result
of this collaboration conceived by Huang is a dream - like
spatial experience that is rich, charged and full
of palpable
tension.
Centered on a screenplay for an unrealized film, which restages the process and exchanges
of the original proposal, Surface
Tension Supplement No. 5 also includes texts and projects by leading theorists, artists and academics who debate the roles
of spatial practice and politics today.
Attia's
spatial installations, videos and photographs draw their potential from the
tension between sensually experiential forms and content which examine our constructions
of realities.
Spatial tensions rise through shifts in chromatic temperature, and with stencils, folds, and other tools she allows for new patterns to emerge, forming visual records
of her decisions, thoughts, and actions.
In visual experience, it is the intuitive faculty to sense qualities
of formal and
spatial relations or
tensions, and to discover the plastic and psychological quality
of form and color.»
The selection
of these objects, their colour,
spatial relationship and juxtaposition is what provides the
tension and narrative within his work.
His works not only consider the nuances
of light,
spatial tension, and materiality but they also display an abrupt, visceral engagement with color and gesture.
The works are neither purely pictorial nor truly sculptural, and the
tension between the expectation and actuality
of presentation, between their simultaneous flatness and three - dimensionality, serves to defamiliarize the white cube setting, demanding from the viewer a constant navigation
of his own
spatial experience.
What I'm much less sure about, as I have written elsewhere, is whether in abstract painting there is enough real
spatial content in the first instance to set up any kind
of meaningful
tension to such a resolution.
The two elements, I felt, while enhancing the
spatial tension, also created this greater feeling
of mystery.
Political capacity to respond to the causes and impacts
of global warming coalesces in a complex cultural and economic environment that encompasses a suite
of tensions on all temporal and
spatial scales.