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It all began in the depths of a previous century: the idea that an artwork need not be a depiction but can itself be an image - an image for the sake of an image, an object that no longer exists because of what it endeavours to present or illustrate, one that is exclusively turned towards itself and its viewers, as a new meaningful reality alongside that which already exists. Since then, art has been busying itself in the edges and margins, in the boundary between figuration and abstraction, in the interval between moment and duration, or the visible and invisible - even in the fallow land between genres. Since then, visual artists have been avidly working with the building blocks of art: matter, transparency, form, outline. Many contemporary works arise in the field of tension between these elements. Notice how the changing ingress of light in an exhibition space plays with the shapes of a sculpture, how time itself becomes a determining element of our gaze. Witness how a figurative work changes as soon as the first preliminary study is committed to paper. How a video or film recording makes us aware of time itself. Or experience what time does with an object. Each of the four visual artists invited by The White House Gallery today deals with these parameters in their own distinct way.
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It all began in the depths of a previous century: the idea that an artwork need not be a depiction but can itself be an image - an image for the sake of an image, an object that no longer exists because of what it endeavours to present or illustrate, one that is exclusively turned towards itself and its viewers, as a new meaningful reality alongside that which already exists. Since then, art has been busying itself in the edges and margins, in the boundary between figuration and abstraction, in the interval between moment and duration, or the visible and invisible - even in the fallow land between genres. Since then, visual artists have been avidly working with the building blocks of art: matter, transparency, form, outline. Many contemporary works arise in the field of tension between these elements. Notice how the changing ingress of light in an exhibition space plays with the shapes of a sculpture, how time itself becomes a determining element of our gaze. Witness how a figurative work changes as soon as the first preliminary study is committed to paper. How a video or film recording makes us aware of time itself. Or experience what time does with an object. Each of the four visual artists invited by The White House Gallery today deals with these parameters in their own distinct way.
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