To gain purchase
on the atemporality of the current moment, this exhibition of nearly fifty photographs, videos, installations, and sculptures from the past six years highlights eleven artists who reevaluate historical events and notions of progress.
Using William Gibson's writings
on atemporality as a point of departure, Hoptman culled canvases registering traces of earlier styles and times — from Kazimir Malevich's utopian abstraction to Barnett Newman's heroic zips to the title of a Lucio Fontana painting — in sometimes overt, sometimes clandestine ways.
Not exact matches
Its thesis hinges
on the word atemporal, inspired by «
atemporality,» which was coined by the science fiction writer William Gibson in 2003.