Not exact matches
Individual
sheets are sturdy,
transparent and excellent conductors
of electricity, giving them enormous potential for use in
plastics, superconductors and many other materials.
The microfilm is made by depositing 3 to 7 micrometres
of the solid liquid crystal on a
sheet of PET, the
transparent plastic from which some fizzy drink bottles are made, which acts as a support.
The
sheet is laminated with
transparent plastic for protection, resulting in an overall thickness
of 80 micrometers, or twice that
of ordinary paper.
A couple
of them are encased in pods
of transparent plastic sheeting, which was also used to cocoon her wall - installation Majestic Splendor (1997), comprising 98 pouches
of raw fish, each adorned with hand - sewn, beaded tiaras, representing the neglected role
of female laborers in the Korean handicrafts industry.
Thomas Hirschhorn, The Map
of Friendship between Art and Philosophy, 2007, Cardboard,
sheet of paper,
plastic foil,
transparent adhesive tape, prints, felt pen, ball point, 240 x 400 cm, 94 1/2 x 157 1/2 in
Among them, two rooms are dedicated to site - specific works: Shachi Jokyo (1972), an array
of small, flat stones supported by a single piece
of wire that criss - crosses the room, and Tabunritsu (1975), a set
of over thirty stones mounted on top
of a
transparent plastic sheet draped over concrete blocks.
These earlier sculptures, made
of thin,
transparent plastic sheets drawn on with clear hot glue, appear fragile and weightless.
In Untitled box on a romantic theme (1977), a mermaid figure lies frozen under a
sheet of transparent blue
plastic.
Up above, Miles Greenberg had arranged for naked bodies to lie splayed out between wooden poles on
sheets of transparent plastic, in corpse - like repose.
Cardboard,
sheet of paper,
plastic foil,
transparent adhesive tape, prints, felt pen, and ballpoint pen
Many
of Reus» installations include
transparent packaging and encasements — custom - made
sheets of curved glass or
plastic sheaths.
My favourite works are all by female artists, who are so often absent from Italian art history: Carla Accardi's fluorescent and candy - coloured Rotolo Arancio and Rotolo Verde (Orange Roll and Green Roll, both 1967), painted on
sheets of rolled - up
transparent plastic sheeting; Irma Blank's Twelve Chapters (1977), 12 laboriously hand - written books filled with the artist's elegant abstract signs, and Lisetta Carmi's I Travestiti (Transvestites, 1965 — 71), a pioneering and much censored photographic project about the trans community in Genoa.
Appel — in contrast to Abts — is focused on the world around her, using traditional trompe l'oeil technique to depict fabric,
sheets of transparent plastic, hand sewing, match sticks, floor grit, slabs
of meat, and other objects from everyday life.
While a depiction
of a mound
of rice or a chopped leek might be intricately detailed and uncannily illusionistic, a
sheet of transparent plastic is convincingly communicated in a few decisive brushstrokes.
Multiple layers
of plastic sheeting, black or
transparent, are draped over another painting, though one
of the bottom corners has been left uncovered and a tear in the black
plastic reveals an area
of painted canvas, but visible only dimly through the underlayer
of transparent plastic; onto the surface
of a third painting the artist has glued a frayed blanket, colored drab brown like a piece
of army surplus.
This sandwich was then laminated between two
sheets of transparent plastic.