Showing posts with label Focus week 1 - 12/10/2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Focus week 1 - 12/10/2009. Show all posts
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Royal Aademy of Arts Visited 2!
After i went to the Anish Kapoor exhibition i went to see the Paper City: Urban Utopias exhibition that was also running at the same time. Paper cities was mainly an architecural exhibition, there to show what designer and architect thought the future holds for the urban city. Although mainly architectural many of the images consist of interesting landscapes, something that can bring me inspiration in my work and good precedent. The exhibition itself was in the smalles part of the Academy occupying a tiny space on the side where not many people could see, however if down to me should have had a much bigger space, maybe the Anish Kapoor galleries if im not being too cheeky! The images on show were very strong and to top off the great experience you could make a scrap book of the images that were on show, there was great pads with each image which you were allowed to take free copies away. I made the most of this and took as many as i could get my hands on :) what a great idea, i wish there were more of these kinds of exhibitions. I scanned my images in and the scrapbook that i created can be seen below...
Royal Academy of Arts Visited!
Ok so this morning i went to the Royal Academy of Arts to see those two exhibitions, mixed emotions to be honest, somethings were better than others.
Anish Kapoor was a bit of a disappoinment for me to be honest, after paying £8, a whole £8 more than the Tate i was expecting good things. To add to the misery i wasnt even allowed to take photos of the few things i liked. The sheer scale of some of his work amazed me, but i went there to be inspired by sculptures that explore space but i left more confused than anything. one piece named 'shooting into the corner' had an interesting concept, there was a cannon projecting 20pound pieces of red wax at 50mph through a doorway and into the corner of the following room. Although a good concept the clay was projectd with little force to make a dramatic live piece of art that the pubic could enjoy at 20minute intervals, instead many people would be cramped into a small space, built up with excitment as the artists helper preped the cannon only to be met wit a load bang and a second of undramatic flinging of red wax. Yes i did i liked the concept but i did dislike just as much! The live act doesnt rightly portray the reasoning behind the art, the Academy states "the drama of Shooting into the corner takes place in a space set apart, rather like a boxing ring, a ritual arena in which a symbolic act of violence is allowed to occur", yes it does portray this but for me its just not strong enough, but then again i wouldnt say my thinking patterns are the same as some of the wacky artists and art critics out there!
Anish Kapoor was a bit of a disappoinment for me to be honest, after paying £8, a whole £8 more than the Tate i was expecting good things. To add to the misery i wasnt even allowed to take photos of the few things i liked. The sheer scale of some of his work amazed me, but i went there to be inspired by sculptures that explore space but i left more confused than anything. one piece named 'shooting into the corner' had an interesting concept, there was a cannon projecting 20pound pieces of red wax at 50mph through a doorway and into the corner of the following room. Although a good concept the clay was projectd with little force to make a dramatic live piece of art that the pubic could enjoy at 20minute intervals, instead many people would be cramped into a small space, built up with excitment as the artists helper preped the cannon only to be met wit a load bang and a second of undramatic flinging of red wax. Yes i did i liked the concept but i did dislike just as much! The live act doesnt rightly portray the reasoning behind the art, the Academy states "the drama of Shooting into the corner takes place in a space set apart, rather like a boxing ring, a ritual arena in which a symbolic act of violence is allowed to occur", yes it does portray this but for me its just not strong enough, but then again i wouldnt say my thinking patterns are the same as some of the wacky artists and art critics out there!
Monday, 12 October 2009
Focus week: Royal Academy of Arts
So for focus week i had a look at some exhibitions that would interest me, while online i found two exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts in central London. 1 exhibition was for Anish Kapoor, and the other was named Paper City: Urban Utopias.
Anish Kapoor has become one of the most respected and influential artist of his generation, gaining international acclaim, for his works exploring form and space in the medium of contemporary sculpture. I thought it was time to see what the hype was all about!
Secondly was the Urban Utopias exhibition, after seeing some images online i was interested in some of the landscapes portrayed, i might as well go and see this while im there!
Anish Kapoor has become one of the most respected and influential artist of his generation, gaining international acclaim, for his works exploring form and space in the medium of contemporary sculpture. I thought it was time to see what the hype was all about!
Secondly was the Urban Utopias exhibition, after seeing some images online i was interested in some of the landscapes portrayed, i might as well go and see this while im there!
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