Hi all! One of my favorite professors from art school and research associate here at the Field, Andy Yang, is having his first solo exhibit at the MCA in Chicago! It sounds amazing! The opening is this Tuesday and Free. If you like what I post, you won’t be disappointed by this show (though I haven’t seen it yet). I won’t be missing this opening!
“The total of stars in the universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of planet earth.” So claimed Carl Sagan. In fact, astronomers estimated in 2003 that for every grain of sand on earth’s beaches and deserts there exist ten times as many stars above. Yang takes Sagan’s pronouncement to heart in a scale model of the Milky Way in which one grain of sand represents one star; the estimated 100 billion stars are approximated by more than seven tons of sand. The work is accompanied by low level, white noise, which contains traces of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)—a residual signal of the origination of the universe. Modeled after the vastness of the galaxy, the installation provides an immersive and contemplative experience that brings viewers to the shore of the cosmic ocean.