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Contemporary drawing as idea and process presents drawings produced by seminal american artists associated with minimal, postminimal, and conceptual art, as well as a selection of works by artists of subsequent generations who continue to engage with the aesthetic strategies and procedures of their predecessors. Ian mcewan is one of the modernist writers who utilises new and uncommon ways of narrating. Ed ruscha gagosian is pleased to present five pairs of paintings by ed ruscha. Briony fer, fba is a british art historian, critic, and curator. On abstract art, briony fer, yale university press, 1997, 0300087357, 9780300087352, 194 pages. In this timely and original book, briony fer introduces abstract painting and. He majored in philosophy at yale university ba, 1966 before studying sculpture at yale school of art mfa, 1969 where he studied with, among others, visiting instructors donald judd and robert morris sandback is primarily known for his minimalist works made from. It has long been shorn of its currency in any meaningful dialogue about the state of art and architectural production. The line is a means to mediate the quality or timbre of a situa. An extensive scholarship theorizes mattaclarks practice as a critique of his architectural education and a recuperation of the social spaces outside its purview. I love the whole world is an abstract painting by the canadianamerican artist agnes martin. In 1998, francesco bonami called orozco one of the most influential artists of this decade. It becomes a temporal rather than only a spatial issue as second by second, the picture enacts the precarious coming into vision of pictorial representation. Frederick lane sandback was born in bronxville, new york where, as a young man, he made banjos and dulcimers.

Roni horn selected drawings 1984 2012 25 october 24 november 2012 if you were to ask me what i do, i would say i draw this is the primary activity and that all my work has this in common regardless of idiom or material. In addition to an ambient sound track, we hear the workings of the projector, we become aware of the mechanics of the film moving through the gate, we focus. Gabriel orozco in conversation with exhibition curator professor briony fer ucl and art historian. Curated by ann coxon, briony fer and maria mullerschareck. Alison wilding by jo applin and briony fer published by lund humphries first comprehensive account of the work of sculptor alison wilding. The invisible, the trace, the almostthere britishborn tacita deans 16mm films create remarkable drama from astonishingly little visual presence. Active involvement of the viewer is required, according to fer, to make the experience of the work compelling and to see the work in an appropriate manner. Fer wrote it is a surface that invites a contemplative gaze, bolting the viewer to it, as if the work of the work were to open on to an immaterial and meditative space. Rather than constraining difference, repetition allows for maximum difference, exacerbating, even. These small paintings, made between 1983 and 1987, are superb. Fer, objects 29 in phenomenology, empathy is the subjects experience of the other as a subject. How repetitive strategies inform the diverse possibilities. She had been making art since the 1960s, always working in a wide variety of media reliefs, sculpture, drawing, video, performance. Special appointments 14 institute of fine arts annual 2011 2012 okwui enwezor during his seminar contemporary african art, spring 2012.

This research into dan flavins drawings suggests that rather. Calibrating that point of losing sight of figures in landscape is taken to extremes, pushing it to an almost absurd limit. Introducing abstract painting and sculpture of the 20th century, this volume explores new ways to think about abstract art and the problems of interpretation it raises. Anni albers tate modern, london, in collaboration with. Each of the ten chapters in the book addresses a particular problem associated with abstract art by focusing on specific works. Briony fer 2004 has argued that the materiality of martins paintings invites contemplation, and that the surfaces are also evidence of a meditative approach to artmaking. Briony fer noted that on the one hand technologies give access to different, multiple and unknown levels of reality, and by its mere presence, this access alters the encoding of our world and on the other we have fewer and fewer individual memories, and most of the ones we now have are shared with an everincreasing numer of men. She appropriates mainstream media in innovative ways and transforms her canvases into structural elements, effectively questioning the viewer s active involvement in her works. Barely adequate as documentation of the process, but not satisfying. A parallel physicality between viewer and sculpture gives rise to an intersubjective viewership. Instead, the name recalls for most a notion that was fashionable in the 1970s and 1980s, suggesting a manifold of concepts like historical quotation, allegory, appropriation, pastiche. Their role in koethers oeuvre is reminiscent of eva hesses expressionistic spectre paintings of 1960 in that they also show the artist taking control of an expressionistic style reminiscent of soutines still lives or even philip gustons figural. From course of empire the exhibition for the united states pavilion at the 51st biennale di venezia 2005, which traveled to the whitney museum of american art in new yorkto photographic books such as then and now 2005, ruscha has structured certain.

Horns work has an undeniable material presence, a seductive, sensual beauty. Pdf abstraction in art with implications for perception. Artistic agency and the on and on of repetition in post. The earlier towers gifs 21jul, 22jul, and another 22jul were jerky, with inconsistent and flat lighting. Kant, coproduction, actuality and pedestrian space. Her means may seem simple, but her basic concerns with the nature of representation and the role played. He gained his reputation in the early 1990s with his exploration of drawing, photography, sculpture and installation. This fivefoot square canvas is painted with horizontal peach stripes on a white background. Request permission export citation add to favorites track citation.

The stripes are divided into two sets of eight with a white band running horizontally between them and directly through the centre of the canvas. Gordon mattaclark 19431978 is best known for his experimental building cuts, in which he reconfigured whole architectural spaces slated for destruction in north and south america, and in europe. Citing both her writings and her drawings, fer contended that martins project is a fierce and. Glantzman orchestrated over 200 pieces for the viewer to. She has written essays on numerous contemporary artists, such as gabriel orozco, vija celmins, jeanluc moulene, roni horn, ed ruscha, and rachel whiteread.

Curated by renowned hesse scholars briony fer and e. Not only did the exhibition propose a different view of orozcos major contribution to changes in art in. Color 29 meticulously rendered drawings of great 20th. Hilma af klint sweden, 18621944, emma kunz switzerland, 18921963, and agnes martin canada, b. In this brief statement, briony fer invokes the relativity and ontology of meaning and interpretation. Briony fer has noted certain freudian roots in judds. An elliptical traverse of twentieth century art in, of, and from the feminine mit press, 1996. To reduce the immediate recognisability of the crockery and to put more focus on the combined shape of the eventual tower, i sponge painted individual items with a mix of gesso and pva glue. I ntroduction by briony fer when we consider the vast array of objects that are called modern art, how can we begin to make sense of the sheer range with which we are confronted. They suggest a model of viewing unclearly as if vagueness is a kind of necessary condition of the obscurity in which we live our lives. But compare the sanguine tone and easy acceptance of. She has written extensively on diverse topics of 20th century and contemporary art. Agnes martins infinity, concentrated on martins grid drawings of the 1960s and her attempt to work with the idea of infinity as seen in her painting untitled 1964.

Briony fer notes in her published remarks from the tate symposium. Abstraction in art with implications for perception article pdf available in philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences 3581435. In her book on abstract art 1997 the art historian briony fer frequently uses a psychoanalytical approach to formal, and ostensibly partial, objects in art. Many people are intrigued by the abstract work of artists like mondrian and jackson pollock yet find it difficult to explain why. Anna maiolino begins working with clay quite late on. Gordon mattaclarks photographic spaces ubc library.

Briony fer described this physical intersubjectivity between the viewer s body and the sculptural body as a bodily empathy. Briony fer has revealed the aberrations integral to piet mondrians paintings, for example, as allan kaprow did in the 1960s when he wrote that. Keywords dan flavin, drawings, minimalism, light installations. How repetitive strategies inform the diverse possibilities of clay in contemporary art practice this paper set out to explore the opportunities available with the congruent use of clay and serial repetition, as a device, in art making.

It is considered to be an innate tendency of human psychology personification is the related attribution of human form and characteristics to abstract concepts such as nations, emotions, and natural forces, such as seasons and weather both have ancient roots as storytelling and artistic. Its a range that can appear more disparate than unified and it includes works of art with seemingly so little in. The education of rosalind krauss, peter eisenman, and. Remaking art after modernism, briony fer, writing on agnes martin, states. Imposing strict limits on her format enabled her to increase the play of difference within it. Notes on introduction, briony fer, modernity and modernism. Conners work eschews such recourse to the body, one of several points of divergence from hesse. Remarks on the philosophical writings of fred sandback juliette kennedy february 6, 2015. Briony fer and tiffany bell among them, and it is a daunting discussion.