By placing each fragment against
opposite walls of the gallery so that the front half appears from one wall, while the back disappears into another, Paolini not only destroys the object quality of the sculpture but in doing so creates an installation which calls attention to the architecture of the particular exhibition space.
The latter is seen on
opposite walls of a gallery space.
Not exact matches
The next room
of the
gallery presents works from a few series, most notably Blake's Wrestlers and Tattooed People, which line
opposite walls.
In the first room
of Marian Goodman's new
gallery, adjacent pairs
of vast grey painted - glass panels are retwinned on
opposite walls, so that the space contracts a little around a huge central sculpture, 7 Panes
of Glass (House
of Cards)(2013), that drolly invokes both Richard Serra's cliffs
of leaning steel and Caspar David Friedrich's The Sea
of Ice (1824).
Displayed at different
gallery branches, Man Fung Yi's brass replicas
of personal garments and William Tsang's rather straightforward installation, in which anonymous photographers in a mixed - media relief are spying on a nude woman, depicted in charcoal on paper on an
opposite wall, contemplate voyeurism and the boundary between self and other.
On a nearby
wall, a series
of photographs show a lone figure amidst a deserted urban waterfront using these very flags to send quasi-cryptic signals towards the «sea» on the
gallery's
opposite wall.
A triangular piece
of the same structure rested against a
gallery wall, while a third part, a flying wedge erected high on steel scaffolding anchored by absurdly puny black sandbags, stood
opposite.
At
opposite ends
of the main
gallery, but not necessarily
of the art world, Alex Brewer (HENSE)'s enormous geometric
wall painting and Michi Meko's wood - assemblage
wall piece both illustrate the journey from gritty vernacular experience to elegantly shaped contemporary art.
Stapled to the left
wall in a discernible oval grid, the individual threads disperse as they stretch to the
opposite side
of the
gallery, optically mixing the original hues and varying their saturation.
Melodrama, Act 1 @ Luxembourg & Dayan A fun and surreal exhibition with Maurizio Cattelan's headless horse hanging from one
wall and a whale's tail coming out
of the
opposite side
of the
gallery.
Entering Room 1
of the South
Gallery you spot Marcel Duchamp's hand - coloured collotype
of his painting Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912, a large Patrick Caulfield and a Gillian Carnegie still life sharing the
opposite wall, underscoring Schwabsky's point that «detached from the model, painting can proceed from image to image».
Depending on how you draw distinctions, there are six objects on display in the
gallery space
of Fort Worth Contemporary Arts: three identical houses constructed from everyday items — reclaimed wood, video cassettes, Tupperware — and three paintings on an
opposite wall.
Sky Tent, created by girls working with Kate in Learning Labs, grows from the
wall and window at the
opposite end
of the
gallery.
There is an implied scale beyond the actual size
of these small pictures in acrylic on aluminum, Her current show presents two series, both from 2013, hung at the same height on
opposite walls of this long, rectangular
gallery space.