Boxes — Avis Newman

MEMORY AND MATTER

The boxes are like archives of the imaginary, in which the ‘real objects-snail shell, feathers, salt, ash – become images, (picture) through the frame, a fictional space confining the world of the visible, which is at the same time unable to renounce completely the phenomenological world.

Stella Santacatterina, Third Text, 1996

Avis Newman (Installation, Ikon Gallery), 1996

Avis Newman WORKS (Installation, Casa Masaccio), 1995

Birdbox, "La Scatola Dell 'Uccello" (left), 1992; Object from Nature (right), 1986

Bird box, "La Scatola Dell 'Uccello", 1992

Fragment of Fragments, 1991

1991 Dazzling emptiness. Supreme burn

Dazzling Emptiness. Supreme Burn (left), 1991; The Salt Box (right), 1989

As yet untitled, 1991

...a day without a day, 1991

The Graphite Box (Earth of Paradise), 1990

The Graphite Box, 1990

Through the hour-glass, 1990

An Awful Symmetry, 1990

Cyphers which supply a place but signify nothing, 1990

1-32 onward, 1990

The Salt Box (Earth of Paradise), 1990

The Soot Box (Earth of Paradise), 1990

The Soot Box (Earth of Paradise), 1990 (left); The Graphite Box (Earth of Paradise), 1990 (right)

The Salt Box (Earth of Paradise), 1990 (Installation View)

Earth of Paradise, 1990 Installation Arnolfini

Earth of paradise I (Cool); Wood in Wood, 1990

Wood in Wood, 1989

The Salt Box, 1989

Wax to feel the unwritten, 1989-90

The Right One. The One That's Left, 1989

The Right One. The One That's Left, 1989

The Nudity of Ignorance, 1989

Stone Flight, 1989

Sixteen snail shells, 1989

Sculpture of Essential Movement, 1989

Boundary, 1989

(Title unknown) No2 Snail Shells, 1989

(Title Unknown) No1, 1989

Unlike the walker, the dancer goes nowhere, 1988-89

The Stuff of Dreams 1 (no longer exists), 1988-89

The Snail, 1988

The Snail, 1988

Drawn from life, 1987

Nests there are, 1986-87

Object from Nature, 1986

How The Heart Flutters, 1984-85

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