Traditionally...
Aug. 13th, 2007 01:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnommi...I'd tell you that I was pretty much with my old A-level art teacher, who always said "Sculpture? Pff, that's just something you trip over whilst you're looking at the paintings."
However, I really really, REALLY enjoyed Blind Light at the Hayward. I think it might actually be one of the first times I've actually got sculpture*, or at least the first time I've really appreciate what it might do for your perception of the space that you occupy and your relationship with it. Wandering through a box full of dense cloud (Blind Light), with virtually no visual and very confused auditory cues was cathartic (if a little damp and asthmatic), and exploring a huge chunk of vertiginous ironwork (Space Station) from above, below and between was a really disorientating experience. Also, despite appearances to the contrary in many of the reviews I've seen, refreshingly unpretentious on the whole, and very visceral.
Running until August 19, open 'til 10pm daily. Go see!
Thanks to everyone else who came for making it even better. Special mention to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
maracacha for looming out of the fog in a truly terrifying fashion at me.
*Excepting Martin Creed's Half The Air In A Given Space (white version, Southampton Art Gallery), Richard Wilson's 20:50 (at the Saatchi) and Boccioni's Unique Forms Of Continuity In Space. I quite enjoyed each of those, and not just because of the crazy static or oil fumes!!
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P.S.
I'm thinking of planning a swift holiday for early Autumn that would take in the Sedlec Ossuary, and of course Prague. Anyone have any practical suggestions?chopseuy I'm looking at you in particular, as you've been there. Any travelling companions interested?
However, I really really, REALLY enjoyed Blind Light at the Hayward. I think it might actually be one of the first times I've actually got sculpture*, or at least the first time I've really appreciate what it might do for your perception of the space that you occupy and your relationship with it. Wandering through a box full of dense cloud (Blind Light), with virtually no visual and very confused auditory cues was cathartic (if a little damp and asthmatic), and exploring a huge chunk of vertiginous ironwork (Space Station) from above, below and between was a really disorientating experience. Also, despite appearances to the contrary in many of the reviews I've seen, refreshingly unpretentious on the whole, and very visceral.
Running until August 19, open 'til 10pm daily. Go see!
Thanks to everyone else who came for making it even better. Special mention to
maracacha for looming out of the fog in a truly terrifying fashion at me. *Excepting Martin Creed's Half The Air In A Given Space (white version, Southampton Art Gallery), Richard Wilson's 20:50 (at the Saatchi) and Boccioni's Unique Forms Of Continuity In Space. I quite enjoyed each of those, and not just because of the crazy static or oil fumes!!
EDIT!!!
P.S.
I'm thinking of planning a swift holiday for early Autumn that would take in the Sedlec Ossuary, and of course Prague. Anyone have any practical suggestions?
chopseuy I'm looking at you in particular, as you've been there. Any travelling companions interested?