PLIAGE – Simon Hantaï
Joe Fyfe reviews two exhibitions of work by Simon Hantaï. Fyfe describes Hantai's technique of "pliage": "In pliage, the painting's canvas surface, previously treated with poetic delicacy, was instead subjected to a methodical violence: scattering blobs of black paint over its face, letting it dry, crunching it up, painting on it more before it was […]
Tantric Paintings at Feature
Joanne Mattera blogs about the exhibition Tantra: Anonymous Paintings on Paper, at Feature Inc. Mattera writes: These paintings, and others like them, embody codified images that express specific ideas in tantrism; meditating on them stimulates the eye and mind toward a particular mystical experience. On a more material level, these reductive abstractions by anonymous artists are […]