So I love, love, love where art is going but I also
love where it's been, and for this there's MoMA, The Met and the Guggenheim.
One of my all time favorite art movement's is Futurism, and MoMA has quite a
nice collection of Futurist pieces, one of which I was quite excited to
see; Umberto Boccioni's 'Unique Forms of Continuity in Space', 1913. I'm
not going to pretend that I know absolutely everything about this piece but it
is such a beautiful work and I can never figure out how such beautiful flowing
and smooth shapes can be created out of a metal and manipulated. I think I also
prefer not to know as it adds a certain mystique to the sculpture for me.
Now although I have just gushed over futurism but
for me the only piece of work that can move me beyond anything is Monet's
"Bridge Over a Pool of Water Lilies". The Met has one from his
extensive series on display and quite honestly I think I stood there for about
fifteen minuets just looking in wonder at his dream-like perfection of the
scene. Of course he had a lot of practice with this scene before but the power
of the work is quite astonishing when your actually standing in the grand rooms
of The Met in front of it. This painting was definitely a highlight of the New
York trip for me.
Ahhh the Guggenheim! My favorite piece here is
actually the building it's self designed by Frank Lloyd Wright is a continuous gentle
spiral going upwards with small rooms off to the side as you go up that display
the art, as walk around/ up you can see right down into the entrance hall and
up the glass roof/ window at the very top. While we were visiting they had
hanging in the void a collection of works or one whole work, I'm not too sure
of Maurizio Cattelan hanging from the celling and the higher you got the
more you saw as there was ton's of stuff all hanging at different heights. The Guggenheim
is possibly the absolute perfect size as you don't get too exposed to too much
stuff you can easily do it in 3 hours while The Met was just far too big to do
in a day and you begin to become numb to it all after 4 hours of walking
around, as much as I enjoyed it.
Also while we in New York we were fortunate enough to be able to visit
the studio's of great artist's, one who stands out clearly to me is Nina Katchadourian who
does fantastic photography and at the moment all of it is taken on her IPhone
while she is on a plane the concept behind the work is pretty cool. It all
about being constructive while your travelling instead of wishing it could all
just be over. She uses the materials around her to create her costume and set's
so quite a lot of it is toilet seat covers and plastic cups. She also uses
images from magazines and mixes them with other material's to create new
pictures. You can check out her work here.
Oh you can see pictures from our trip on Jake's Flickr.
Lot's of Love
Audrey Megan
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