Here is a photograph of our field trip to the galleries at Bergamot Station on February 5, 2009. I am intrigued by the manner in which this gallery seems to engage the class.
- Was it the artwork? Exuberant and surprisingly intricate. Soft as a whisper and loud as a shout...mechanical and gestural at the same time.
- Was it the setting--the open space, the expanse of whiteness, sandwiched between dark ceilings and floor? It felt cavernous yet cozy.
- Was it the arrangement of artworks? The black images on the 2 opposite walls seeemd to have the authority of a punctuation mark at the end of a sentence and anchored the whiteness.
I welcome your comments...
Very poetically said! I really liked the work, too, and it felt well presented. It is possible to take away from the work if badly presented. Or if the work is not that interesting, presentation will not make it better.
ReplyDeleteI read the Press Release for the show. So I have a better sense of the work. I guess we missed the rest of his work at the other gallery by the restaurant. I am still not sure how those images are produced. There was however a definite reference to his interest in the use of technology to produce the work...
Great shot & analysis. The contrasts you articulated might be exactly why we enjoyed it & what we got out of the experience.
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