Antony Gormley exhibition
Jun. 23rd, 2018 06:21 pmWe went to see the Antony Gormley exhibit at Kettle's Yard.
If you like surprisingly evocative iron statues of Antony Gormley, you will enjoy a lot of his works, and there were a few more along those lines, including "man lying down with his feet touching the wall a foot above the ground" and "diving man depicted in bands of latitude and longitudes" and "man made out of spaced out jenga rods" (not the real titles).
There was also... three wires perpendicular to each other stretching through several rooms of the exhibition, which are surprisingly disconcerting when the rooms are mostly pure white.
But most notably, there was an infinite cube (I think that IS its real title). It's a glass box about a meter wide on a table, filled with a rectilinear lattice of wires and white LEDs. But the sides are slightly mirrored, so when you see in, you see these tunnels of glowing white lines OF INFINITE REACH. And if you peer down, you see the same thing as a chasm. And if you go too close, you see your eye with sparkly white dots floating in it (or green if you wear glasses for long-sightedness).
However you move your head, there's always these infinite tunnnels twisting to show you their depths. And you can walk all round it and see if looks the same from every dimension.
Like, you would swear it's the tesserect, or some other glowy advanced alien tech power device. I mean, usually the inside of art pieces is not infinite, but here it -- apparently -- is.
If you like surprisingly evocative iron statues of Antony Gormley, you will enjoy a lot of his works, and there were a few more along those lines, including "man lying down with his feet touching the wall a foot above the ground" and "diving man depicted in bands of latitude and longitudes" and "man made out of spaced out jenga rods" (not the real titles).
There was also... three wires perpendicular to each other stretching through several rooms of the exhibition, which are surprisingly disconcerting when the rooms are mostly pure white.
But most notably, there was an infinite cube (I think that IS its real title). It's a glass box about a meter wide on a table, filled with a rectilinear lattice of wires and white LEDs. But the sides are slightly mirrored, so when you see in, you see these tunnels of glowing white lines OF INFINITE REACH. And if you peer down, you see the same thing as a chasm. And if you go too close, you see your eye with sparkly white dots floating in it (or green if you wear glasses for long-sightedness).
However you move your head, there's always these infinite tunnnels twisting to show you their depths. And you can walk all round it and see if looks the same from every dimension.
Like, you would swear it's the tesserect, or some other glowy advanced alien tech power device. I mean, usually the inside of art pieces is not infinite, but here it -- apparently -- is.