It's been a while i meant to post these pictures which are part of an exhibition in the National Museum of Art in Copenhagen, they're related to a comment i've made in that modern art post - "For me it was always about feeling pleased by its beauty, or shocked by its ugliness or just anything at all, with a very few exceptions". I'm no longer talking about understanding or not modern art, but for feeling something through it, and these pieces above certainly had some effect on me. The ensemble is carefully separated from any other piece in the museum, there's this infirmary door, no sign on it, you even wonder what's behind that door. Then you look through the glass and you actually see people resting in those cold hospital beds. It looks so real. Here's what i read in the museum afterwards. It says:
'Shhhhh!' Is this the sound of solicitude and consideration? Or rather a reminder about our disturbing entrance into the room? This work is about how we relate to our surroundings. The hospital's anonymous architecture and solemn atmosphere can call to mind the mood at a museum. However, unlike the museum room, it's difficult to maintain a distance from the hospital ward. Memories, compassion and discomfort impinge.
Please, keep quiet! surprises us. The experience can be intense and unexpected. This piece shares its surprising effect with the trompe l'oeil genre. Trompe l'oeil is an illusionist technique where the observer is 'deceived' and led to believe that a painted object is real.
Whereas the seventeenth century's works often referred in a playful and witty fashion to themselves, Elmgreen and Dragset's mission is more extrovertedly critical. Both then and now, however, the art works generate a need for renegotiating our perceptions of reality. Read more on this piece here and more about the trompe l'oeil technique here.
13 comments:
I would love to see that exhibition!
Fantastic! I love art like this, the living room, a hospital room, a toilet upon a pedistal. It amkes one reflect upon the ordinary certainly, but also broader things like form and utility, irony and our human nature.
The face of the patient is a bit startling, because being sick in the hospital is a personal experience. The sick are vulnerable, on display to passersby, dressed less modestly perhaps than they'd like. We have to stare, out of morbid curiosity- and perhaps a touch of fear- at the patient and we feel a bit embarrassed to do so.
I love your post, Romeika.
Seraphine, staring at those almost alive patients and the "hospital" enviroment was such a weird experience, almost creepy. I always love to hear on what you have to say about art. Thanks!
Romeika, uma idéia, no mínimo curiosa, para uma exposição. Mesmo assim, eu acho que eu não gostaria de ir a uma exposição dessas.
Uhh it looks very interesting.
Great post!
C.
Kamila, por acaso eu encontrei a sala, estrategicamente posicionada no meio de tantos quadros antigos e "normais". Quando olhei pelo vidro da porta por um segundo pensei que aquilo fosse real (só eu mesma rsrsrs..) e ao entrar, a sensação à primeira vista foi de puro incômodo. Entendo o porquê de muitos passarem longe.
i wish i could have gone with you!! the exhibition sounds amazing and so intriguing although i must say, those photos are quite scary. that woman looks so real!! *shivers*
Muito interessante!!!Mas nossa que fotos assustadoras ahahahahahahah
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haha!! it's so different and creative! lol i love u romeika!! i didnt give the arts and museums any second thoughts before and now i've become much more cultured!!!
thanks a million=p
love.
it also had some effect on me too. i cannot describe it by words but it can be a mixture of melancholy, sadness, peace and fear.
molly*
Cotton Candy, yes, it does look so real, it's creeeepy:-p
Filó, assusta mesmo rsrsrs.. bjs!
Penelope, glad you enjoy these posts;-) -x-
Molly, i hear you!
Thank you guys for the comments!
Esse artista é mesmo sensacional Romeika, não conhecia essas fotos! Tinha visto outras dele!
Cassiano, são dois artistas - Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, acho que eles são dinamarqueses, não sei ao certo. Mas o trabalho é sensacional mesmo, bem diferente.
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