His paintings use the by - now venerable abstract painting technique of pouring to risk a certain loss of control, and yet by using blown - up stencils to interrupt these random flows
with fragments of words, images, or hand - me - down decorative motifs, he constantly keeps a discursive, referential function in play.
Not exact matches
Thus says the Holy One
of Israel, «Because you despise this
word, and trust (sic) in oppression and perverseness... This iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall... which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its
fragments not a sherd is found
with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip water out
of the cistern!»
Charles Peirce said this in his twenties
with superb clarity, except that finitude is in this usage an inadequate
word; we are but
fragments of the finite cosmos, which so far as we know is itself finite.
But language is what the poet has to work
with, and so the poet is forced to take sometimes exaggerated, sometimes extreme steps to pierce the mundane, breaking up lines, using
words in odd new contexts, relying on sound effects and packing the stanzas
with sensuous images and
fragments from scripture, and the common language
of faith suddenly takes on new meaning through these odd juxtapositions.
In other
words, listeners experienced
fragmented communication — little pieces
of information supplied
with very little context, background, or perspective.
Thus says the Holy One
of Israel, «Because you despise this
word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them; therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a break in a high wall, bulging out, and about to collapse, whose crash comes suddenly, in an instant; and its breaking is like that
of a potter's vessel which is smashed so ruthlessly that among its
fragments not a sherd is found
with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out
of the cistern.»
Funes is first mentioned in an obituary
of James Joyce, «A
Fragment on Joyce,» published in 1941 in the magazine Sur.3 There,
with some measure
of sarcasm, Borges says that to read straight through a «monster» like Joyce's Ulysses — a 400,000 -
word reconstruction
of a single day in Dublin — requires another monster able to remember an infinite number
of details.
«Give Life Back To Music»
with its robot voice and disco beat, «Giorgio by Moroder»
with its spoken
word story before kicking in
with its ferocious live drumming and strange sounds, the eighties feel
of «Instant Crush»
with the Strokes Julian Casablancas on vocals, the Television sitcom theme style
of «
Fragments of Time», the closer «Contact» which builds to a glorious crescendo there is so much here to love.
First
of all, I will not even consider feeding any foods that contain any
of the following: meat by - products, poultry by - products, any food
with the actual
words «meat meal» in the ingredient list (meat meal could potentially contain anything such as diseased or dead / dying animals, including the possibility
of euthenised pets from shelters (yes
with the euthenasia drugs still in their systems and sometimes even
with collars still on), as well as a legal allowed %
of plastic, chemicals and other unmentionables), soy, corn or any
fragments thereof, wheat or any
fragments thereof, any kind
of gluten or gluten meals, sugar, artificial flavours, artificial colors, BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin
Schiele famously traveled everywhere
with a full - length mirror that once belonged to his mother, and Saville also uses full - length mirrors, as well as photographs (the latter to «hold the image down,» in her
words), to aid in the lengthy process
of painting her
fragmented and layered figures.
His text speaks to absence as much as presence
with a story
of war and empire told in
fragments, phrases,
words hanging on the page — an index
of both the trauma and resistance experienced by those subjected to the violence
of empire.
Some
of the works included in the exhibition explicitly engage
with Eliot and his writing, such as Philip Guston's grim deathbed painting East Coker: T.S.E. (1979); David Jones's painted inscription Nam Sibyllam (1958), made as a gift for Eliot, which combines the text from Petronius that is The Waste Land's epigraph
with the opening lines
of the poem and other phrases connected to the Grail myth; Graham Sutherland's two Illustrations for T. S. Eliot (1973); and Vibeke Tandberg's The Waste Land (2007), which consists
of 36 collages in which the artist has cut out each
of the
words of the poem, and re-organised them alphabetically and in groups, at once
fragmenting Eliot's poem
of «broken images» even further and bringing its underlying verbal structure to light.
Then for the catalogue, we decided we wanted the artists» own
words, so we asked them for their own writings, and I realized how amazing that
fragment of Richter was, so I became curious and I started to research and I saw that there were all these amazing writings he had done, and there was never a book, so the third project we did after the Nietzsche house and the group show in Vienna, The Broken Mirror, was I started to edit, over years, a book
of his collected writings, which came out, and has now come out in an augmented edition, a second edition, co-edited together
with Dietmar Elger, and is now double the size
of the one from fifteen years ago, and then, so it's always been approached in working on another exhibition together.
In this series the artist combined her love
of decoration — in this instance, Islamic ornament —
with her longstanding passion for cartography, so that interspersed throughout the works are maps
of the Gaza strip, the Pale
of Settlement (the territory within Imperial Russia restricted for Jews from 1835 - 1917, to which Kozloff traces her ancestry), as well as text references to the Tasman Sea, among other
word fragments.
While the majority
of Grossman's works concern the physicality
of the body, many
of her collages and assemblages are dense, abstract compositions, such as Tough Life Diary (1973), created from
words and
fragments cut from the artist's diaries, and Light is Faster than Sound (1987 — 88), which combines dyed paper
with an image
of Lyndon Johnson and found scraps and fliers.
The diverse body
of work includes Anish Kapoor's wood
fragments in red Perspex box, Douglas Gordon's burnt wood cast in bronze and Grayson Perry's ceramic
with the
words «Art is dead.
Mostly English
words,
with a modest amount
of markup and some script
fragments.
Instead, write your bullet points in sentence
fragments e.g. «Successfully led a team
of six to complete project X ahead
of schedule» or «Proficient
with Microsoft
Word, Excel, and Outlook».