On the left: Danh Vo's piece. Church cloth taken from Hoang Ly church ( 1800s), Vietnam. This piece was interesting as it was visibly about how time and light can effect something. On the right: R Crumb turned the bible into one long comic strip. The drawings themselves were interesting but what engaged me the most was the sheer size of it, and it being on mass and repetition. |
On the left: Arthur Bispo was admitted to an asylum after he had received a message from god and he began prophesying it around his home town. Whilst then spending his life in there he used reused materials for his work and shaped it around his message. Here is something like Noah's ark, the blue thread within it has been taken from the ward gowns. On the right: Pawel Althamer created a whole room of sculptures, with each persons face being casted from a venetian worker. He says that they have been "Huddled together like a heard of lost souls", they certainly create an intimidating and uneasy atmosphere within the room. He also states for this piece "The body is only a vehicle for the soul". |
On the left: Petrit Halilaj created a sort of rabbit burrow for his piece and it is about bridging the difference between reality of his life and upbringing with a more fictional world. This piece appealed to me as you got to walk into it and explore it from the inside space. On the right: Fe203 Ossido Ferrico by Francesca Grilli, depicts a massive piece which hold rust and shows the effect that time has on something. |
On the left: Berlinde De Bruyckere Kreupelhout - Cripplewood. This isn't the main piece, rather a piece of art which aids the viewing of the main piece however what intrigues me with this is how the light speckled through it and how the fabric was distorted. On the right: Bill Culbert created this fascinating piece in which he uses the reflection of the surrounding building to get an image within the water in his bottles, I could have at an looked at this pice for hours. |
On the left: Yiqing Yin stitched on an opaque panel with silk to reveal this naked woman looking rather godly. This was particularly interesting to me as I love to involve stitch within my own pieces of work. On the right: Thierry De Cordier had around six of his paintings in this one room. They were extremely dark and easily portrayed the brutal strength and temperature of the sea. However, what I want to take from these pieces were the sections which were left unfinished and bled out and the quirky pieces of writing at the bottom of these paintings. |
On the left: Vadim Zakharoc created an installation which spanned five rooms and was about greek mythology. The thing which particularly interested me from this was that it needed the viewers participation in order for this piece of art to work and keep running, as the audience had to transport the coins themselves. On the right: Wim Botha sculpted some very intricate and mesmerising busts of various people but made from books. It was very refreezing to see and everyday object being used in such a way. |
Finally Eva Kotatkova created an installation piece entitled "Asylum". Nevertheless the piece as a whole was rather eerie but the thing which captivated me was the little pieces of writing involved in her work, I studied these little pieces for quite a while and it inspired me to want to use writing more in my work. |