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edges and universes
Made it out to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art last weekend. The main gallery was closed, but a side gallery held an interesting exhibit called "Soft Edge," a collection of a broad spectrum of pieces, loosely related by their use of organic forms or materials (fibers, etc.).
I liked a lot of the stuff I saw in that exhibit, but the pieces I made special note of were the "painting" by Michelle Stuart, a gloriously lush piece of rag paper imprinted with pigments made from earth and ground stone (it was similar to, but more "ambient" and less formally patterned than this milkweed seed series of hers); and the selection of objects from Claire Zeisler's series "Fragments and Dashes," mainly twigs and stones knotted and wrapped in elaborate fiber sheaths, resembling nothing more than a set of artifacts from a fictional civilization.
Also interesting (although part of a different exhibit) was Gabriel Orozco's Oval Billiard Table with Pendulum. Orozco's art resonates with me because he and I share an interest in games as self-contained formal worlds: "I think every game is a universe in a way," he says in this PBS interview, "or every game is an expression of how the universe works, for different cultures." Mmm yeah. |
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
9:18 AM
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