Bleeding World
The first picture is called "Presentation" by Dana Schutz. Date: 2005. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 10'x14'.
The second picture is called "Bleeding Takari II" by El Anatsui. Date: 2007. Medium: Aluminum and copper wire. Dimensions: 12'11"x18'11".
The third picture is called "Fire" by David Wojnarowicz. Date: 1987. Medium: Synthetic polymer paint and pasted paper on plywood, 2 panels. Dimensions: 6'x8'
The fourth picture is called "Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight" by Mark Tansey. Date: 1981. Medium: Oil on canvas with crayons. Dimensions: 6'x6'1/4"
This exhibition is called "Bleeding World" because it illustrates what is happening throughout the world and what will happen in the future due to global warming. All the greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide emissions we are releasing into atmosphere is causing extreme natural disasters which increases the death toll. The world keeps dying slowing until there is nothing left. After everything is gone we'll have to appreciate whatever there is left, which will be rocks basically. The audience for this exhibition are the people releasing all the greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere. Usually big corporations or people living a lifestyle with a big carbon footprint. Driving non eco friendly vehicles, people who do not recycle, and people destroying forests.
Great exhibition idea. I love that the intended audience is the perpetrators of the eco-crimes. It could be a traveling show that is installed in corporate headquarters all around the globe. I think your narrative is totally clear and you've chosen really good, and diverse works to illustrate your point. If I was to make one criticism,it's a pictorial essay, and doesn't totally give the work the independence speak with it's own voice.
ReplyDeleteAs a curator, you can choose how visible you will be in creating this narrative, how much you impose your voice.
There's a retrospective at MOMA right now for the recently-diseased painter Sigmar Polke, and while most love his work, everyone is complaining about how congested the show is, like a chaotic mishmosh of paintings drawings and videos that completely confuses and distorts the experience.
http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2014/polke/installation
Just some thoughts. Not really a criticism of your show, which I think is great and a commendable subject. (A)