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Agnes Denes (1982) Wheatfield A
Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan.
Included
within the exhibition is a selection of over 50 drawings and prints undertaken
by Agnes Denes between 1963 and 2013.
Across the
exhibition is a fluidity within the mathematical forms which withhold a certainty
within their numbers and folding structures. Denes breathes and manipulates
mathematical dimensions into new realities forming a movement of line in space,
exposing the coordinates of reality.
Denes thought
processes are described within drawings that are heightened by the technicality
of execution and transformations of information. There is a powerful potency
within the intellectualisation of the contextualisation within the blurb /text
creating a dialogue with the work which some viewers may find results in
mapping space of new knowledge locked within linear grids entwined with rules.
There is a
chaos within the complexity and limitations within the significance of
recognisable forms which strike a relationship with existence. The universality
of the language and line and the language of the line creates a duality and
engagement of forms floating within a balanced, sublime and even equilibrium.
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Agnes Denes Dialectic
Triangulation: a visual philosophy, series VII, close
up view.
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The systems
of numbers synthesise a system based on logic creating a calculated composition
interacting with formulated forms engraining an essence of a coded reality.
This is prominent within works such as; “Dialectic Triangulation: a visual
philosophy, series VII” , where a desire for the stability of the triangular
form which charts links to psychological and sociological structures such as
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is established. This series of drawings is based
upon organic pyramid forms which propose a relativistic and timeless sense of
existence, creating an almost cyclic transcendental structure to Denes work.
Although the
drawings can be misunderstood, they still exist counter to misinterpretation
and understanding, formulated under structured conditions a viewer’s
perceptions can never change the inherent essence and being of the drawings. Uncertainty
is established in a commentary and conversation of future doubt woven within
the sculptural subsidies in works such as Wheatfield
A
Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, 1982.
See below for images from the exhibition:
The exhibition runs from Saturday 23 November 2013 - Sunday 9 March 2014.
See below for a video from the Tate:
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