#art visit

[joriekerottier]

Solo exhibition by Inge Meijer, and the workshop 'Walking as art practice' by Alireza Abbasy at VierVaart / 4824

[valiantunknowncrusade]

This sculpture is one of the least I liked in the art museum at the frosty. The one who Created the work of art is Kate gilmore. She made this piece as a performance and it was by what i was told to be amazing. she had men, from what i recalled from the curator, dress in a sort of masculine garb and damaged it by smashing the cubes. It was a performance as a mean to show the constructs of masculinity. It was for the whole feminist ideology. Though, I respect all matters of beliefs, i truly think this piece is a form of propaganda. The sculpture was basically taken from the performance and just thrown into the museum. The look appears to me to be not so bad as to how they placed the layout within the museum but the concept to me was just not appealing to me. I could see this art work as something that would fit as an ornamentation formation for a museum as we can see lol or even a decoration in a large garden. but ultimately I don't like to support things that are helping to push an agenda that could possibly help in the decline of society. I'm all for women liberation but not in this sense. In addition, I would have like to have had the tools used in the wrecking of the cubes on display as well or the clothing to add to the piece. It just looked plain. The damages to the cubes was consider to me to be the decoration but the art piece seems to leave a emptiness to it. To be honest I thought for a moment that those were chairs in place for viewers. But despite all of this the rest of the museum was amazing. They should have played the video or the performance or something. It was just missing to many pieces to me. And I think there is a sort of attack on masculinity and the concepts that make of heterosexual male. This seems to support this ideology in a sense.

[valiantunknowncrusade]

This would be probably the sculpture that I would choose out of the other ones that I liked for the assignment. This art piece was made by Jennifer printz from FIU. The name of this piece is called copper prints. It's a slick designed disks of copper plates that contains images. These images are very present yet vague at the same time because it shows the image in detail when up close but as you step away from the work of art, the illumination from the glossy surface emits a reflection of light that causes the piece to appear as though it was meant to light a house. It echoes luxury and wealth to me. It's reminds me somewhat of that large penny you would see in the batcave In a comic book or reminiscent to ancient Egypt. The sculpture seem to give me a visualization of a shrine used in the worship of the gods of Egypt. All it would need is a fire or something with incense to map out the scene. The attention to detail is very awe inspiring. The amount of time to make each one must have been a strenuous event for her to make. The knowledge of seeing a piece by a professor of the university is like watch a sensei show the genin how it's done. The sculpture real intrigued me because of the effect it has on the surrounding light as well. The angles at which the light emits on the disk, changes the very nature of the sculpture itself. I would have liked for them to have used more lighting angles to emphasize this feature on the sculpture. If these disk were left alone and found I'm sure anyone of use would immediately assume that it's a artifact from the past. She even did the exact image of the items she placed on the plate in a separate art work to give the audience an insight on what she was trying to provey to the public. An overall amazing decoration I would love to have in my home if I owned a mansion. She should definitely give it a thought to work on interior designs or home decor. She would definitely become popular with her works.

[givemeallthecolours]

1) part of 'Vase with Roses' by Henri Fantin-Latour 1883 2) 'The breakup of The Ice' by Claude Monet 1880 3) From the 'Whatever' series: 'Legs' by Bruno Pacheco 2003