I managed to visit Tate Modern recently, I find that exploring Museums helps my creative side progress. Immersing myself within contemporary art and finding what I like and can be inspired by.
Here are some work I found interesting..
Chryssa (1933-2013) “Study for Gates No.4 1967”
Chryssa was one of the first artists to use neon, previously just an advertising tool. She moved to New York in the 1950’s and said she was inspired by Times Square “with its light and letters”. This work is made of sixteen blue neon forms housed in a grey Plexiglass structure made to resemble the night sky. The repeated forms are fragments of the letter ‘S’. I really liked this piece and how it is structured, the neon lights creating so many different dimensions makes this piece one of my favourites.
Aldo Tambellini (1930) “Cell Series 1965-8 (digitised 2018)/ Cell Series 1965-8”
Cell Series is an immersive projection of digitised versions of glass sides. A selection of the original sides can be seen in the adjacent light box. The slides were painted black and scratched, pierced and burned to create a range of abstract images which suggest cellular and cosmic forms. Tambellini would project the slides onto the sides of buildings , or use them as part of immersive, multimedia performances in collaboration with dancers, musicians, and the Umbra Poets, a group of African American poets. Just looking at this piece, I found myself wondering how I could maybe use projections in my FMP and the process of creating one, the effect i imagine it has rather than just using lights is interesting and i would maybe like to explore this effect.
Cildo Meireles (2001) ‘Babel’
A tower of radios playing at once, addresses ideas of information overload and failed communication. Cildo refers to Babel as a ‘tower of incomprehension’. Comprising hundreds of radios, each tuned in to a different station, the sculpture relates to the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, to a tower tall enough to reach the heavens. God was offended by this structure, and caused the builders to speak in different languages, No longer able to understand one another, they become divided and scattered across the earth, and so began all mankind’s conflicts. This sculpture was made entirely out of different models of radios dating back to the early 1920’s to the models of today. This was totally atmospheric and greatly interesting to see. The most fascinating part of my whole visit was looking at this work.
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