Not exact matches
While claiming that the
whole of creation has as its very
structure the Sabbath principle, Barth qualifies this statement by suggesting that creation (through its culmination in the Sabbath rest)
paints also to redemptive history (to covenant) and to the final consummation of the same.
Of course time exists very clearly in
painting, although in the opposite way to music or film; it's telescoped into the
structure of the work, and expands into its constituent elements only after the
whole has been experienced.
These
paintings allude to parts of a
whole, focusing on an indiscriminate component of a random
structure, whose proportions are amplified by the black lines and enriched by the textured white ground.
This exhibition has been conceived as a process lasting six months, a symphony
structured in three movements and an epilogue, each deriving from the study of a single key work that defines the
whole movement: Echo VIII, a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois (First Movement); Fuji, an abstract
painting by Gerhard Richter (Second Movement); and Silent Score, a performance by Pierre Huyghe (Third Movement).
This permitted the
whole painting as object to lend itself to the propensity in perception to see the total configuration of an object as an immaterial image of form, while precisely locating colour in an unfluctuating relationship within the overall
structure of the form.
Over the past 30 years James Hugonin has become known for his unusually deliberate and determined way of making
paintings: completing on average just one
painting a year and always following a
structure of small marks of colour across an underlying grid, each mark shifting slightly from its neighbour and building to a rhythmic
whole.
My ideas about how to build the
painting structure and how the 3D prototypes will integrate into the
whole have grown enormously since my first
paintings with embedded 3D forms.
Through connected artists such as Yves Klein — who also became a member of French art movement Nouveau Réalisme — Jean Tinguely, and Lucio Fontana, ZERO would re-define
painting, explore the monochrome, and serial
structures, and produce artworks made from flames and smoke, filling
whole galleries with their environmental works, they would turn to the deserts and skies as viable sites for art.
Usually, the
whole intricate
structure is
painted matt black, but sometimes it can be all white, or all gold.
Even the floaty disconnected drawing doesn't interfere with the
whole structure of the work and I'm not sure that it's not properly resolved (its impressive to do a complex
painting like this which has some fairly uniform flattish areas that aren't «dead»).
Colour
structures the
painting, creating space and movement; providing the means of getting through and understanding the
whole thing.