Martin Boyce's work We Burn, We Shiver is an interesting peice. The use of the celling to exhibit his art is different from other artists in the Triennial who use wall and floor space to present their work. I like the way Boyce has used florecent lighting to highlight the shape of the spiders web. The instilation is similar to how a spiders web looks at night as the white thread of the web glows brighter than in the day. I also like the suttleness of the artwork when you walked into the room where it was being exhibited, as first you just believe it to be lighting for the room.
Shilpa Gupta's work singing cloud is a facinating instilation. The use of microphones to create a cloud suggests the idea she is trying to project a message to do with media and recorded messages. On the Triennial website the defention tells us that Shilpa Gupta's work is portraying the message that 'all media effects the way people see and understand the world'. This is interesting as I see the Cloud as a passive and dark idea, which suggests that the artist is not happy about the way media is effecting the global nation. I agree with this statement as this effects the morals and individal thought each person possesses, therefore the medias grip on society is creating a supressive state on a global scale.
Actually I quiet like Martin Boyce's work and I did some researchchThe sculptural work of Martin Boyce refers both to a physical, urban landscape and to a visionary one that is yet to exist. He often borrows from Modernist design history, from archetypes of certain periods that evoke an idea of democratic utopia, from a collective memory of mass-produced design. His core interest is how objects come into the world, the ethos and politics with which they were produced, and what happens to them as they travel through time and space.
ReplyDeleteI also find the 'singing cloud' an interesting piece and when you first see it you wonder what it relates too. It makes you think quite hard about the idea behind it. I agree with Alex, as seeing the cloud as a passive and dark idea. The viewer wonders, why a black cloud? why not a typical white cloud that we are used to? i think it relates to the darkside of the media and the effect is has on the individual and the nation.
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