Dec 27, 2017 · Most of the artwork in the Hirshhorn’s “What Absence Is Made Of” is stark and monochromatic, creating a somber melancholy tone that fits with absence and loss.

Sep 10, 2020 · It is something that may be called the presence of absence. This is the ability to render a room without people or narrative action and yet somehow convey the sense of their being in the space—a lingering life force, as if someone has just departed or is about to arrive.

Oct 18, 2017 · Spanning more than seven decades and seventy works, the exhibition explores the many ways artists express absence. Some use frame of reference, or mirroring effects, that trigger the imagination of the viewer; others create work …

Whether through minimalist aesthetics, the use of negative space in literature, or the deliberate omission of details in visual art, artists harness the power of absence to shape narratives, evoke emotions, and provoke thought.

The unusual exhibition titled “What Absence Is Made Of” held in the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum collected 70 artworks created over the past 70 years.

The Presence of Absence does not intend to resurrect the 1960s viewpoint that execution is less important than conception; it does, however, provoke questions about conceptual art’s relevance – both by implicit comparison to the so-called neo-conceptual school, and by serving as a catalyst for new works that adapt and revise many of ...

Absence and presence become parallels existing at the same time in the void. Davidson works primarily between drawing and painting to create compositions in which shadowy, biomorphic figures and delicate, foliated fragments mingle.

D I A L O G U E Absence/Presence explores the spaces between viewers and works of art that appear empty, but are filled with ideas, memor. es and emotions. These spaces are points of contact between human bodies and objects that we cannot touch but may be touched by; things we cannot feel that .

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