Back at the current show at Lehmann Maupin, Varejão walks by a wall of large canvases in earth tones
with deep fissures across their surfaces.
The crown of this tree is flat, while its bark is reddish - brown
with deep fissures.
Not exact matches
The result is a large plain surrounded by extremely
deep faults and
fissures, many of them filled
with crystal - clear waters.
Installed in conjunction
with the more traditional gallery exhibition, 33 °, the murals range from the humorous, an image of tourists wandering aimlessly across an aqua blue expanse, to a sobering, a black
fissure opening stark and
deep in what we are to assume is an arctic ice sheet, to the iconic, a lonely polar bear drifting on a small iceberg.
This is the latest installation in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall — a series of wow - factor installations that have, over the past decade, included Doris Salcedo's Shibboleth, a
deep fissure running through the concrete floor of the building, and Olafur Eliasson's The Weather Project, which filled the space
with mist and mirrors.
Already,
deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers
with strong ties to powerful tea - party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil - fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.
The government hopes to revive domestic natural gas production
with the technology that has transformed the energy picture in the United States — horizontal drilling into
deep underground shale, and high - pressure injection of water, sand, and chemicals to create
fissures in the rock to release the gas.