His own static paintings look cramped in comparison to his animated work, and very much of their time.
Over the next six months, the curator will conduct his business from this transplanted work space, adding an element of live performance art to the institution's collection of predominantly static paintings, sculptures and installations.
Whitneybiennial.com is set up much like a traditional gallery, except instead of showcasing static paintings or sculptures, the focus is on artworks called "neens," or single-serving websites, composed of a single page with a registered domain that only do or display one thing.
Lam is creating an interactive experience using his own two-dimensional static watercolor paintings and a low-cost micro-controller and novel application of several rapid prototyping techniques.
In a chapter about liquid crystal displays comes a moving digression about art: "Static images like paintings and photographs allow us to contemplate ourselves, and how much we've changed from viewing to viewing," he argues.
The show tracks the traffic of images, themes and ideas between Dalí's films, both realized and not, and his more static efforts, including paintings, drawings, letters, illustrated notes, scenarios and other ephemera.
These mobile sculptures, embedded as they are with motion, are an obvious inspiration for a motion-based animated work, but Kernaja instead chose to animate Calder's more static work: his paintings, effectively turning them into virtual versions of the artist's mobiles.
Wall paintings are static and space limited.
And there is eloquence too in the older media, in the static dignity of oil paintings, or even in an understated line or two on a display card.
"With repetition, narrative things like songs, concerts, or operas can lose their traditional form and become static — but vibrant, like paintings or sculptures," Kjartansson explained.
At the Met, Mr. Rauch's paintings looked static and hemmed in by history; references to old masters are still present in this show at Zwirner, but the new work is more of a Fellini film than a costume drama.
