Last night I worked the brand, spanking, new opening of the Photographers' gallery which is now situated in Oxford Circus. Showing in the main gallery were large format pictures of people living on the west coast of America by Katy Grannan. One of the subjects of her photographs were transexual duo Gail and Dale. the images are often striking and have an awkward beauty to them but are often uncomfortable- reflecting the subjects posed discomfort and nudity.
t seems as if ‘Large Field Array’ mixes different models for describing the world.
“Yes. Certain patterns and systems are laid out in the structure. You have the signs
of the zodiac, chemical elements like sodium, helium, oxygen and so on and so forth.
Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
line up in a planetary strip. In one direction, you’ll find mathematical truths. In another
direction it has material truths. One line follows the path of human life, another one
the way of heat and entropy. These lines are of course arbitrary. It doesn’t matter if
you know or if you don’t. It is like an abstract painting. Instead of asking how does
yellow go next to blue, I am asking how one form can go next to another form as the
consequence of these invisible forces. Scientifically speaking, a sculpture is an
interference pattern of both laws of physics and quantum forces, but also of art
history and other kinds of forces. Each one of the 300 pieces is the sum of all
possible forces acting upon it. Each sculpture is basically the result from the things
around it. Looking at them, you understand that they are partial. We are always
looking for the original thing which of course there isn’t. There is just the world. There
is no great truth in any of these sculptures. The great truth is that they are all
interconnected. The way in which the art world will take an object and put it in
isolation and say: there it is! - that is such a myth. I am trying to create a theatre
where that is impossible. You cannot enter Large Field Array and control it. It is
overwhelming. And it is actually a little bit terrifying. I want that feeling of terror when
you walk through it. That there is too much to grasp.”
The new trend in contemporary F.art has got to be Kinetic Sculpture. Saw the Kinetic show @ the kinetic museum, there was an amazing piece by American artist Jack Pavlik whom constrcuts harmonious sliding steel bands; which slide and propel forward in a uniformed sequence.
"In sculpture you can have an idea, an exact idea but the final result will come from experimentation and the limits of the material. In this mutual give and take, a transformative process takes place; where there is an evolution of both form and idea. In my work I have been combining flexible and rigid materials, materials that merge a biomorphic, surreal pattern of black shapes and lines, with geometric metal frames and structures that work at the same time to move, and contain the active forms of the piece, creating what I hope is a humorous, surreal form of sculpture." - Jack Pavlik
