Stout / Stout / Wentworth / Knowlton .:. Metaphor

Kent Fine Art.
Metaphor. Myron Stout, Richard Tuttle, Richard Wentworth, Win Knowlton. New York: Kent Fine Art, 1987. ca. 50 Seiten mit Abbildungen. Kartoniert. 4to. 233 g

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* Ausstellung Feb. 12 - March 14, 1987. - Leimbindung brüchig, lose Teile.
Bestell-Nr.157757

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Stout Stout Wentworth Knowlton | Kunstausstellung | Ausstellungskatalog | Exhibition Catalogue | Bildhauerei | Plastik | Sculpture | Installationskunst | Installation Art

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The works presented here reveal the sensibility of four highly individualistic artistpoets in whose hands physical materials—metal, wood, concrete, canvas, paper—become sounding boards for the spirit. With a firm belief in abstraction and a vocabulary of primary geometric or biomorphic shapes, Myron Stout, Richard Tuttle, Richard Wentworth, and Win Knowlton reconcile the contradictions of object and idea, simplicity and complexity, matter and spirit, infusing their art with mystery and resonance. Through the manipulation of material realities, these artists demonstrate the revelatory power of art. From their quiet, matteroffact presentations of objects and images, intensely concentrated and distilled, emerge a sense of intimacy and a gradual awareness of the metaphor at work.
There is a haunting staying power in Knowlton's "ritual" objects, Stout's rich, belabored shapes and surfaces, Tuttle's simple, hermetic wood reliefs, and Wentworth's arrangements of ordinary tools and objects. The images linger as poignant memories in the mind's eye. Their abstract, symbolic function, fluctuating between things and consciousness, is analogous to the experience of language. But these works also activate the surrounding environment, creating an energy that commands our total attention and sharpens our visual awareness with flashes of perception. Ultimately, this art is about seeing.
Susan Harris

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