His calling card, a kind of visual obsession, is frost, which he makes by connecting small, humming refrigeration units to some of his works with a thin copper tube, causing the art to turn bright white as it freezes on the wall.
Looking at his recent cover for Scammers' American Winter, with its cosmic egg cracking over a virtual Alpine vista, one realizes that his dominant visual obsession is a kind of geographic uncanniness.
Like Joseph McBride, whose magisterial "Steven Spielberg: A Biography" was first published in 1997, Haskell finds portents of Spielberg's visual imagination — his obsessions, his tropes — embedded in his early life, particularly in the family romance of mother, father, and child.
Working around subject matter that is universally recognizable to the American public, Edwards reflects on our screen-obsessed culture and "contemporary society's obsession with visual stimulation".
Working around subject matter that is universally recognisable to the American public, Edwards reflects on our screen-obsessed culture and "contemporary society's obsession with visual stimulation".
If Flora's photograph speaks to the country's obsession with visual media, it tells another, interconnected story about Malcolm's passionate engagement with photography.
In striking parallel with Kandinsky's quest for a realm of spiritual abstraction in visual art, Busoni's obsession was the subliminal void preceding the creative act.
Prouvost, who speaks with a rolling French accent that adds romance to her films, attributes her obsession with visual media and the moving image to her childhood home, where she was not allowed to watch television.
In other words, he had no overriding thematic obsessions or visual poetry or dramatic motifs — the usual hallmarks of a director given the auteur honorific.
While hiding their names and faces may be a good way to pique interest in their music, their images and videos act as carefully placed reference points – the sense of retro nostalgia in their visuals nods to an obsession with 80s hip-hop and B-boy culture.
Still, as different as the new works at Zwirner may appear to be, they reflect the artist's obsession with connecting visual, intellectual and behavioral patterns.
