Christian Marclay's exhibit was very music oriented, but in a visual way. It included a rack or clothes that have musical notations, along with other collections of pieces or paper, advertisements, bills, etc. that have music notes on them. He did an interesting project where he put black music sheets around Berlin for people to fill in and dedicated a part of this exhibit to what people wrote/drew. There were bells, cutouts from comic books, a room with comfy couches and music he made, and more. I have a friend who's very into music and the image of music notes, and I'm taking her this weekend.
I've never seen anything like Charles Burchfield's paintings. Look him up. And he was also a great writer. They quoted from his journal (and I wrote it down): "How is it possible to make people understand that artists are not interested in art?". Genius.
America by Car is a collection of photos taken from the driver's seat of a car, just the way you'd see it with your eyes and not at all trying to exclude the parts of the car that would be in your line of vision.
The most compelling of all was a piece in the Biennials exhibit by Glenn Ligon that was on a primed, white door that said "I do not feel colored." over and over again in black. (Zora Neale Hurston said it.) It starts out clear and gets smudgier as it goes down. Metaphors!
Oh! And there was also a chalk board that looked like music sheets to mirror the Marclay's Berlin project.
So now I'm afraid that Art Museums might become an addiction.
:)
p.s.- I worked at the Bronx Museum of the Arts this summer (yes, there is an art museum in the Bronx) and I miss it.
No comments:
Post a Comment