Art gallery Visit 2

The title of the exhibit is Video Sphere.  The theme of the exhibition is cinematic medium, visual media, audio and video. 

The gallery lighting used was bright florescent.  The color used on the walls was mostly white with black crown and base molding.  The materials used in the interior architecture of the space were marble and tile.  The movement of the viewer through the gallery space was free and random.

The artworks were randomly organized.  The artworks were similar because they were either wall mounted or statues.  The artworks were different in size, style, framing and material.  The artworks were framed all different styles by artists.  The artworks were identified and labeled with the name and artist with a brief description of the work.  The works were each given its own space.

Isaac Julien, British, born 1960 is known for his extravagant and breathtaking filmic installations.  Western Union: Small Boats, 2007 is the final installment in a series of three films that focus on cross-cultural and continental journeys. 

Western Union: Small Boats, 2007, three screen projections of the elements of forms and proportion are used to explore the beautiful cinematic installations related to identity, history, race, memory and the passage of time.  This work is a reminder of the struggles of immigrants.

While visiting the art gallery and viewing the exhibition: With 3 different screens going at once to evoke the feeling of being in the same place as the character makes the story told not by words but through visuals and sounds of music to really get the feeling of the scene.  Everything boils down to the metaphor; all different characters come to same conclusion.

Sarah Morris, American, born 1967 her works often based on different cities, are derivative of Morris’s close inspection of architectural details and her desire to explore the psychology of a place.  Her most recent stand-alone film, Points on a Line, 2010, focuses on two twentieth-century modernist architectural icons, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House and Philip Johnson’s Glass House. 

Points on a Line, 2010

Sarah captured “the intellectual and design resonance” between the structures.  The film shows the two building structures and she wants to change the way people think about a house, a form and a context. In the film the elements displayed are shape, forms, space, and balance.  The artist is trying to say that even structures built in different areas are alike. 

Bruce Nauman, American, born 1941his work Green Horses 1988, an empty leather chair sits between two video monitors showing him riding a horse in the distance.  The chair allows you to feel the movement of being on the horse.  While the film is inverted the viewer feels that the horse is riding the man.