More exciting than Watchmen, to survey the surveyor while we try to understand something called art.
Illustration: Ricke Marc
Philippe Parreno: Anywhen
Exhibition at the Tate Modern, Hyundai Commission
The ceiling is falling? The turbine hall became alive full of floating kites yet silent.
Lights pulse removing any sense of time, days or months could elapse as orchestrated melodies create a army of aural senses that play you in. A reoccurring theme in todays art is the influence of abstract geometry, moving abstract sculpture has a way of reflecting the mood of an environment. With such a grand screen the light emitting from it forces an epileptic response, rubb your eyes its real and mind your step the concrete gray carpet is home to the public.
One of the first youth engaging installiations that provokes public imagination as light moves along an arching rod across the space. Descending as well as ascending, swimming through the space, resting on the carpeted floor pondering alien intellegence in the darkness above. The mesmerizing and unmissable journey of evolving situations the bigger question is can you view it all? Sitting in a state of astonishment and constant surprise the building becomes a living thing, ripples and rivers of pulsing lights illuminte the darkness above, the ambient sounds echo through the cavernous atmosphere electrifying the hall to life.
Philippe Parreno collaborated with Douglas Gordan on a collaboration titled; Zidane a 21st century portrait, the semblance in the portrait acts as an alien force exhilarating and entertaining the public. Parreno alienates the subject changing roles from the viewer to the viewed and question the motivation behind whats starring into your soul. The method used to allow external interfearance to only influence and improve the atmosphere, Parreno raised the bar on artificle experiences to new heights. This instllation acts as a response, a living being, using forest speakers volume increase to drone out the sound of London rainfall as if a response to the world outside.
Infant voices echo, with the subject off camera partaking in invisible actions, add elements like rippling colours, graceful and delicate movements using cutting edge multi sensory technology, seismograph monitors the movement of the tectonic plates beneath to constantly adapt the installation. At the end of the film I heard, “Eternity in perpetuity,” she says. “There’s no way to stop the upcoming tragedy.” This line is the cliff hanger of Parreno’s project, both a feeling and a promise to reuinte.
REVIEW BY RICKE MARC ANTHONY
FLUX Exhibiton: 140 Contemporary Artists Curated By Lisa Gray
FLUX Exhibition, 2nd – 6th November 2016
FLUX exhibition contains incredible unconventional art curated by Lisa Gray, London’s leading light in art. Gray has managed to bring together 140 contemporary artists, some of the most exceptional art pieces done by some of the most iconic names of tomorrow. The atmosphere was electric, an impeccably curated art oven housing tremendous fruits that clearly matured with time, patience creating rare skill. Creating much-needed exposure for undercover artists to the finer details where you actually engage in a conversation with the artists gathered. Surrounded by varying experimental pieces from sound installations to ceramic vases, the abundance of mini masterpieces capture a range of emotive responses as art should.
“A carefully curated exhibition the size of an art fair” Lisa Gray
Your vision is impaired as you feel like Charlie in the chocolate factory, a hazy perspective focuses your retinas on the art displayed, thinking of leaving brings up feelings of withdrawal symptoms. The mix between dark and dysfunctional creates an addictive poison using artist such as Tomas Harker and Darren Baker. An example of rare artistry, vivid storytellers who create a familiarity in their work using a rawness that’s alluring and suffocating. Harker fabricate’s dark wonderlands, glowing full of violence in their frames yet being disturbingly erotic. Enjoying the violently uncanny journey Harkers pieces force you to misread as classic paintings you begin to see the relationships of power and understand his ideologies he explores. The calibre of portrait artists such as Baker show the technical excellence, conveying personality and individuality in western art that ive never experienced before. Bakers manufactured style, swims against the tide of portrait artists using three motivating sequential forces that drive society, money, sex and power.
Flux brings genuine art sourced using the accuracy of instinct, walking through the exhibition was a climatic event to be enjoyed.
Review By Ricke Marc Anthony
Raphaël Zarka “Paving Space”
Raphaël Zarka “Paving Space” Curated By Isle at Protien Studios November 17th-24th, 2016
Paving Space is an unconventional encounter between maths, art and skateboarding curated by ISLE skateboards in collaboration with Carhart WIP. Raphael Zarka tweaks the work of 19th century mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenfliesan, taking mathematical geometry to a new dimension.
Schoenflies had created three-dimensional drawings of varying complexity which, combined with other identical modules are deployed in space without leaving a vacuum. each plaster models illustrates this philosophy of mathematical geometry forms. The collection of forms were brought to life as solid wooden sculptures that serve as both art and skate sculpture obstacles on display during the exhibition accompanied by film and photography, documenting a series of performances from Paris, Singapore and Poitiers.
“Paving Space” Curated By Isle at Protien Studios November 17th-24th, 2016
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN ISLE SKATEBOARDS, RAPHAËL ZARKA AND CARHARTT WIP D/L
Entering the crowded exhibition, the immersion into the skate community is undeniable; an inverted response to an abundance of light illuminating protien Studios as the art event of the evening. Zarka can be described as a influencer of modernist architecture questioning the process art of human emotion.
skateboarding aching and screeching are commonly associated with schooling, rebelling or a disturbance; becomes a piece of typography to communicate the process of the new concepts. The main room holds the sculptors and photography while a room behind it holds an audiovisual experience stimulating yet another sense, from light to dark.
Art is put into the world to be interpreted, understood and evolved and Zarka has given an example of communication through functional design.
Take a glimpse at Zarka’s large scale reconstructions of 19th Century mathematician Arthur Moritz Schoenflies models creatively re-appropriated.
Review By Ricke Marc Anthony
Richard Serra : NJ-2, ROUNDS: EQUAL WEIGHT, UNEQUAL MEASURE, ROTATE
Richard Serra “NJ-2, ROUNDS: EQUAL WEIGHT, UNEQUAL MEASURE, ROTATE” at Gagosian September 16 – December 17th, 2016
Review By Ricke Marc Anthony
Richard Serra has huge pieces of weatherproof steel on display at the Gagosian.
Behold a sculptor’s work, to imagine the magnitude of what needs to be imagined always has a way of exciting the curiosity. Entering the airy, well-lit and obviously incredibly quiet atmosphere; A wave of four white walls holds NJ-2, the titanic on display. An opening presents itself before you, a U-shaped steel passage way which you enter a dance with while making your way through the inner snake form of NJ-2. Immediately you begin to understand why Serra’s a well-recognised international master of marvellous minimalist sculptures. Walking through takes longer than expected yet the feel of a temporal displacement lingers as your eyes adjust to the constantly changing space, light, color, volume, and your own mass inside the frame of NJ-2. Whilst contemplating its orignal form a break reveals itself enticing the idea of solitude using the galleries well-lit atmospherical glare to create a tranquil atmosphere. NJ-2 tricks the perspective with an interlocking set of grand corten steel U-shapes letting you journey through what feels like a canyon leaving you with a genuine feeling of sensuality.
“I am the sculptor who is interested in the invention of form…” – Richard Serra
Richard Serra “NJ-2, ROUNDS: EQUAL WEIGHT, UNEQUAL MEASURE, ROTATE” at Gagosian September 16 – December 17th, 2016Equal weight, unequal measure, rotate is an exhibition resembling the mathematical geometry forms that imitate life; steel moulded and bent into organic fluid shapes, to be viewed as the creative transfer of human expression, the actions being the actual work of art rather than as a product. Serra’s work can be described as a graceful examination of how these forms can master a space. His realistic approach to cage these objects of life by removing them from there hectic habitats for review is applaudable.
Serra’s work initiates a thought-provoking conversation on geometric abstraction, using raw materials and soft curves he uses process art as a double standard; enticing theories of influence from Brancusi and questiong practicality by comparing his work to Raphael Zarka‘s. Brancusi’s sculptures stimulate affinity from forms rooted in life, where as in comparison Serra’s sculptures transport you throughout the depths of life yet both lack the engagement of life. Zarka rewrites the space destined for a particular use similar to Serra yet you can actually use them instead of wasting the life of a material.
A great exhibition questioning the very notion of verticality, stability and mass yet lacking the essential emotive response creating a distortion of warped space. A blending of simplification and stylization as if guided by the heavens, these are pieces to be enjoyed despite the orthodox installation.
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