Pivotal to the artist's oeuvre was his shift in 1960 to the employment of
white monochrome surfaces and geometric, grid - based compositions, represented in the exhibition by works including Relief, 1964; 48 Squares, 1965; 2 Richtingen Om en Om (2 Directions On and On), 1967; as well as R70 - 28, 1970 (collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York).
Not exact matches
While this is perfect for creating resilient
monochrome and even grayscale images, where teeny - tiny black and
white particles arrange in different distances to the
surface of the display to form an image, it poses a problem when trying to show things in color.
Cage observed that the
monochrome surfaces of the
White Paintings, uninflected by gestural brushstrokes, reflected changes in light and shadows in their surrounding environment.
These works demonstrate the artist's continued commitment to the exploration of process,
surface, and repetition, channelled here in the form of the
white monochrome.
From a distance these delicate paintings read as
monochromes, but up close their intricate
surfaces become visible: small arched semi-circles of
white paint almost completely covering the ground of the canvases.
The show also includes graphite works on paper and paintings from the 1990's, which demonstrate Knifer's consistent reductionism, pushing «the meander» to the edge of the canvas to create nearly
monochrome black or
white surfaces.
Displayed in the downstairs gallery is a series of new unique
monochrome works, The Named Series, the
surfaces of which consist of
white wall paint carefully removed from prominent museums and public galleries by professional conservators, using techniques employed to restore frescoes and murals.
At Victoria Miro in 2012, the artists showed The Named Series, which consisted of actual wall
surfaces carefully removed by a restorer from the interior of some of the world's most renowned museums, and then reapplied to canvas as
monochromes with various textures and colour tones of
white.
Peter Demos» current body of black and
white monochromes addresses themes of opticality, repetition, and
surface.
The gallery will also present graphite works on paper, and paintings from the 1990's, which demonstrate Knifer's consistent reductionism, pushing the meander to the edge of the canvas, creating nearly
monochrome black or
white surfaces.
PETER DEMOS» current body of black and
white monochromes addresses themes of opticality, repetition, and
surface.
White, we are reminded, is the sum of colors — and Ryman's paintings are not white monochromes but rather «achromatic surfaces,» as Martin writes, that «transmit light without separating it into visible colors.&r
White, we are reminded, is the sum of colors — and Ryman's paintings are not
white monochromes but rather «achromatic surfaces,» as Martin writes, that «transmit light without separating it into visible colors.&r
white monochromes but rather «achromatic
surfaces,» as Martin writes, that «transmit light without separating it into visible colors.»
On the two side walls the viewer can engage with Mosset's
monochromes and symbolic geometries: on one side an immersive blazing large orange canvas painted in the early 2000s, on the other a lengthy
white surface Patricia's Pillow (1985), where a long bright yellow line harshly yet lightly crosses a
white surface.
The show includes a wood panel covered with black cedar shingles by Aaron Aujla (b. 1986); a vertical
monochrome whose
surface is marked by circular holes, which turn out to be the insides of plastic caps for cans of spray paint, by Dylan Bailey (1985); and a ghostly square
monochrome whose
surface is made from horizontal rows of strapping tape, translucent but reinforced with
white string, by Chris Duncan (b. 1974).