Does the scale and
relationship to the space reference any specific historical practice in painting?
Not exact matches
The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue
to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific
reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise
to a renewed interest in the
relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional
space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.
His most recent publication, Neomaterialism (2014 Sternberg Press), engages in an exploration of contemporary
relationships to material,
space and time especially in
reference to economy and exchange.
The move from studio
to exhibition
space offers up specific
relationships between object and environment, making
reference to minimalist values of action, site and material.
Explains Rogers,
referencing the threes that thread Brig Und Ladder, «The idea for the show came out of wanting
to talk about my
relationship to two other people, so I guess it is a
space for three people
to exist.»
«The Poetics of Place» is titled in
reference to Gaston Bachelard's book, The Poetics of
Space, which explores the phenomenology of architecture in
relationship to the lived experience.
The reconstructed
space surely provides a nice historical introduction at first glance, however, in actuality, the effect seems
to distance one's
relationship to the object due
to the reconstruction's opening up of a multitude of additional, and quite frankly unnecessary,
references: What exactly is on view?
It may start with just one other person, and with that
relationship as a
reference there is a lot of
space to build.