Each wall corresponds to an element and there's a timeline of sorts that
sees objects arranged along a constructed metal grid.
Not exact matches
He pivots here to a feminine perspective but only abstractly: This is a film about objectification that mainly
sees its characters as
objects, to be dressed and undressed, plastered in glitter and gore, and
arranged like furniture against vast expanses of negative space.
Says Jones: «I had wanted for a long time to stop thinking about making art as a way of displaying things, but to think about it as a way of
arranging objects almost like ruins and to
see how they lie and how the relationships that they set up in the world can create a kind of alchemy.»
While the move is less radical than routine (by now we've all
seen paintings brought in to function as artifacts,
arranged in concert with other art or art - like
objects), it effectively releases Louis» work from its unimaginative role as illustration for Clement Greenberg, opening the work for new meanings.
For example, we can
see Judd's relief — a banal material, shaped and folded according to simple rules to produce a surprisingly visually engaging
object — as anticipating a work like Tauba Auerbach's plywood sculpture, The New Ambidextrous Universe III (2014), which the artist created by water - jet - cutting the material according to a meandering line she drew on a tablet and distorted digitally, then
arranging the resulting pieces on the ground in reverse order.
Major innovations - mostly by American sculptors, but
see Destroyed City (1953) by the Russian sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1890 - 1967)- included the «sculptured walls» of Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988)- assemblages composed of found
objects, mostly wood, sprayed in white, black or gold paint and
arranged in box - like shelves occupying a wall; the felt sculptures of Robert Morris (b. 1931); the neon and fluorescent works of Bruce Nauman (b. 1941); the works of Cesar (1921 - 98) made from car - parts; the junk sculptures (eg.
Although he never simply appropriated what he
saw, the influence Josef derived from pre-Columbian art,
objects and architecture is clear in the spirit in which he
arranged the geometric shapes in his paintings and also in his photographs.
You will never
see my books
arranged by color, turned around, shoved against the back of the shelves so decorative little
objects can be placed in front of the books, etc..