Peters»
sculptural language draws from diverse iconographic influences which include Assyrian antiquities, Greco - Roman tragedy masks, Egyptian funerary figures and Cypriotic portraits, as well as the work of Elie Nadelman, early American folk art, Constantin Brâncusi, and early modernist figuration.
Not exact matches
Whilst some artists, such as Kosuth or Emin, are more concerned with text and
language others, including Eddie Peake, Mai - Thu Perret or David Batchelor, use neon as an extension of the
drawn line, or for its three - dimensional
sculptural or colourful qualities.
Using a pared down
sculptural language, Colclough's meticulously built structures both suspend and frame hand -
drawn images.
His repeated minimal palette correlates to his obsessive interest in line and form,
drawing, and monochromatic and tonal values, while developing a complex
language of pictorial and
sculptural signs.
In a
sculptural intervention to encourage the viewers» physical interaction, Vega
draws ideas from the tropes of motivational
language (i.e. «the sky's the limit»), creating puns with the nature imagery embedded within the
language.
The exhibition will encompass a wide range of ways in which artists have experimented with light designed to be seen rather than illuminate; whether through text and
language, the
drawn line or an investigation into its physical and
sculptural qualities.
Drawing on the visual
language of architecture and functional design, Djordjadze creates
sculptural environments that foreground the lasting legacy of Modernism while evoking the vernacular and folk traditions native to the Caucasus region in the Republic of Georgia.