One starts to notice how the shape of a square is used throughout the room in architectural features, most notably on the gridded window frames on the opposite side of the room, where the rounded edges of the sculpture are echoed by thin sheets of linen translucently softening the sharp angels on
the repeated square grids.
Not exact matches
But she also began developing her highly influential signature style: pale,
square - format
grids of
repeating lines.
In the case of 100 Copper
Square the piece is an intervention in that it occupies formerly empty floor space while also highlighting the dimensions of the space by virtue of the
repeated, orderly
grid that maps the existing space and serving, as Carl Andre intended, to create an ongoing discussion between the work and its place.
In this chilly space, increasingly austere geometric abstractions — regimented spots,
squares and triangles in nocturnal palettes — slowly resolved themselves into the
repeating pattern of the
grid.
I had always considered her classic, proto - Minimalist pictures from the Sixties — characterised by subtle, ghostly colours and the use of minute elements
repeated within a
grid often drawn onto a
square canvas with a pencil — as ascetic and restrained: the epitome of cerebral self - control.
The works are comprised of regular lines,
grids or
squares repeated in near - perfect regularity.
Here you'll find Dara Birnbaum's 1979 video «Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry,» which frantically
repeats the
grid of «Hollywood
Squares» with the fake gestures and expressions of the contest show's guests.