And, as always when I’m visiting a museum or gallery, I’m as interested in the space and the geometry as in the art exhibited (and finding some place for my reflection). Click any of the images below to see them full-size.
Sugimoto Space
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More Sugimoto
I never knew about these metallic constructions of his. In the first image below I’ve centered and isolated the structure in black and white on its mirrored plinth, in the next I show a little more, including the reflection of a passerby and, in the final image I show the whole room with the object centred so as to cover the structure shown above (click on any of the smaller images to see them enlarged – clicking through to the web site first if you’re seeing this in an email).
Barbican Space
After the Tate Modern I made my way over to the Barbican Centre, expecting to see an exhibit of Simryn Gill photos adverted to me by the Saltoun Gallery. As it turned out, Gill was just a small part of a much larger exhibit on ecofeminism and its illustrious (photographic) history with works by Gauri Gill, Francesca Woodman, Simryn Gill, Fay Godwin and many others.
Duplex
This is a slightly disorienting view but it’s no more than the view from the top of a staircase, showing 2 stories of this local gallery.
KMSKA
Our final morning in Antwerp was spent at the KMSKA (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen), which underwent a massive refurbishment for many years. It’s a stunning museum and as you can see I continue to be interested in capturing the spaces, the geometry, the whiteness (and blackness), the symmetry and awe of this cathedral to the beauty of the capitalist art world. Please do click into the images below to see them all full-sized (you may need to click on the post title above first if you’re seeing this in email).
Glasswork
In the window of a gallery near the Belgium Jewish Museum.
Gallery Space
Modern galleries always have vast expanses of white space, (often) neutral white light, and interesting geometry to photograph. It strikes me there’s something about the capitalist hegemony of the art world about this, a set of signs or a sub-text letting you know your place in this sacred hierarchy but beyond the obvious fact that such space in the poshest parts of the patrician cities of the world is terribly expensive and therefore you are being suffered to be allowed in, I’m not sure I can articulate it precisely. Certainly the way gallery staff ignore hoi polloi is a sign of something.
Grayson Perry at Victoria Milo
These large tapestries, Posh Cloths, by Grayson Perry at Victoria Milo, in London were eye-opening. I think the designs are made on a computer using graphics software, then translated to looms that weave the actual tapestry. Note the way text is woven into the images, especially in the map-like tapestries below. A definite inspiration for the text-based work I want to do on inequality. Click into any of the groups of images to see all the pictures in that group enlarged.
Autograph Geometry
Modern galleries present a lot of opportunities to take stark, geometric pictures.
Grafton Street
Me, Again
Seems like every gallery I go to, I find a reflection of myself down a corridor in a doorway.
Gallery White
Image World
The second gallery on our tour last Tuesday was Sprüth Magers and the Gretchen Bender exhibition, Image World: “Gretchen Bender gained renown in the 1980s as a key observer of the effects of capitalist society and mass media on the human experience.”
The Lightbox
Blog Note
My MFA class has an exhibition at The Lightbox in Woking running now and I have a couple of images from my Meadowlands series in it. I traveled there last Sunday to see it. If you’re in the UK, please come by and see it, thru February 5th. Click any image above to see them all enlarged.
One and Two Chairs
with apologies to Joseph Kossuth
Layers
From The Photographers’ Gallery we moved on to Gagosian to see the powerful Tyler Mitchell Chrysalis exhibit. You can faintly see my reflection layered above my classmate in the window in front of the photographs on the gallery wall.
Benny Andrews
Saturday before Christmas we went to see Benny Andrews: Portraits, A Real Person Before the Eyes at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. These are very very powerful, strong images, created with paint on canvas and painted cloth and other materials (gesso?) that give them real depth. Well worth putting on a mask and making an appointment to go see.
Exhibition Space
From a Tropical space
Next stop on our gallery crawl was this powerful Titus Kaphar exhibit at Gagosian.
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Ryan McGinness
Next we saw some Ryan McGinness works at 2 different Miles McEnery locations first on 22nd Street (above) and then a massive installation of 72 panels on W 21st Street.