Oehlen, Pendleton, Pope.L, Sillman
Holzwarth Publications, ISBN 9783947127405,
Hb, 64 pgs, 20 x 27cm
Acqn. 33263
In Stock
£27.00
Hb, 64 pgs, 20 x 27cm
Acqn. 33263
In Stock
£27.00
This group exhibition was initiated by Adam Pendleton as an exploration of artistic languages. Some of the works include words, but above all it's about ideas, processes, and technologies that feed into the concept of painting. We see the computer paintings that Albert Oehlen began in the early 1990s, using a primitive graphics program to find out what pictorial gesture the machine would offer, then overpainting the digital drawing transferred to canvas. Adam Pendleton buries typographic fragments and broken lines in his Black Dada Drawings, engaging with the tradition of the black monochrome while using silkscreen to keep the dense brushwork and spray paint at a remove. Pope.L's small assemblages on eraser also reference the monochrome by invoking the name of Robert Ryman. Yet the artist follows subtle color schemes while merging objects and phrases. Amy Sillman's grid of abstract Bathtub Drawings was actually created in a bathtub: signs and forms, compositions and fragments in a state of continuous making. To the artist, painting is less a language than an escape from language, as she says in her conversation with Pendleton and art historian Isabelle Graw, discussing the possibilities and the possible meanings of the medium.