(São Paulo, Brazil) In his first huge solo presentation since his representing Britain in the 23rd Bienal de São Paulo, Gary Hume introduces his new «Unicorn» paintings, which
use architectonic motifs that derive from bunting — celebratory strings of colourful, triangular flags that are used for decoration.
Not exact matches
The Spain - based artist
uses humble materials like cardboard and tape to create
architectonic installations, in which the construction and deconstruction of the work often becomes a performative part of the installation.
And while calling Stout a marine painter doesn't quite nail it, particularly given his frequent, imaginative
use of interiors and
architectonic elements, there's no escaping the recurring, haunting presence of the Texas coast in his work.
This selection of drawings and prints traces a range of subjects, including: «Ideas Generation», where artists
use the immediacy of drawing as a means to prepare and refine a concept; «Systems,
Architectonics and Abstraction», in which predetermined rules, structures and methods govern the form of the image; «Expressions of Anatomy», where intimate portrayals of the figure assume a central position; «Graphic Narratives / Surreal Legacies», featuring imagery from the fantastically bizarre to the comically illustrative; and «Historia», which examines how drawing has been
used to question the role of photography in the mediation and construction of historical memory.
Drawing on the mind's natural tendency to organize and categorize, Yackulic
uses a systems - based logic to generate his varied, aggregate forms — creating imagined structures,
architectonic lettering, and post-natural topographies.
Within these demarcated areas, Ray
uses a lightly textured skin of paint to delicately register tonal changes, compelling us to look even closer, to see that the painting is both an
architectonic space and physical paint.
Using industrial materials such as concrete and painted steel, Low's works «investigate what might be seen as traditional sculptural or
architectonic concerns with form, space, rhythm, tension, balance and the properties of materials».
Akin to the turn toward furniture or the
architectonic that we see in Jessi Reaves's «derelicte» re-envisions of modernist furniture, de Nieves
uses humble materials to make the wondrous.
Four performers
use elaborate costumes with modular forms to create, over the duration of the exhibition, ever - changing
architectonic formations that rethink the relationship between their theatrical sensibility and the exhibition space.