Sentences with phrase «photographs flatten space»

The photographs flatten space, and the holes he made become glimpses of the exterior world framed by the interior space.

Not exact matches

Using space as his raw material, Rousse converts abandoned locations into almost spiritual visions of color and shape, translating his intuitive, instinctual readings of space into masterful images of several «realities»: that of the actual space, abandoned or soon - to - be demolished; the artist's imagined mise - en - scène; and the final photograph, or the reality flattened.

In other pieces in the show, everyday objects such as books are transformed by applying to them the geometry of paper ornaments and minimalist sculpture (Minimal Bibliography), and photographed window fences with geometric designs are isolated from their functional environment by cutting the prints and flattening the illusionistic space of the photograph, thus relating those specific daily life situations with the idealistic language of modernist geometric abstraction (Popular Geometry).

Beginning with a dramatic, portrait - like photograph of two hands forming the shape of a duck — which interestingly does not include the cast shadow silhouette — the artist, over a series of works, gradually empties out any perceived conceptual or symbolic content from the image to create a fluidic but flattened abstract space.