A follow-up to the gallery's sharp, well-focused conceptual art presentation last season, this gathering of pieces by nine artists, subtitled "Conceptual Works II," is a generally polite and gentle affair, leaning toward pieces that give visual form to the way the mind works.
The result is an eclectic and vital gathering of pieces, juxtaposing works by modern heavyweights Elisabeth Frink, Graham Sutherland, Barnett Newman and Bridget Riley, with the lighter touch of the Tate's contemporary acquisitions such as Sonia Boyce, Damien Hirst, and Mark Wallinger.
And: "This gathering of broken pieces is the care and pain of the Antilles, and if the pieces are disparate, ill-fitting, they contain more pain than their original sculpture, those icons and sacred vessels taken for granted in their ancestral places".
"What makes this exhibition all the more special is the gathering of exceptional pieces that are rarely exhibited because of their sensitivity to light exposure and fragility," said Xavier Rey, curator of paintings at the Musée d'Orsay.
When I finished "Radiant Losses" I was determined to write a new book of poems in which each poem was definitely part of a larger concept, as opposed to being merely a gathering of individual pieces.
-Maranda R. 10. "I'm grateful that I was able to pull myself up from the wreckage of divorce, gathering up pieces of my broken dreams and with them, creating something new and better.
The result is "Reactions," a gathering of some 2,500 pieces coordinated by Jodi Hanel and Bibi Martí.
Virtually any gathering of Angell's pieces, all of them characterized by grace and precision, would end up in the win column.
For now, Winston's happy with the rhythm he's striking in his work, and the entire process of gathering pieces, then sharing them via parties and smaller, intimate openings.
Sometimes, naming practices are revealing in themselves, and the National Security Agency's key data mining tool, capable in March 2013 of gathering "97 billion pieces of intelligence from computer networks worldwide," has been named "boundless informant".
This eliminates the often tedious task of gathering the appropriate pieces of information, transforming them into the correct formats and integrating them into the current analysis.
