March 28,2010 09:28
Hard Target
Finally stepped out of the town since I flew back before last Christmas. Three months actually is not too long, just feels like a year.
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Wexner Center in Columbus is exhibiting a group of works about SPORT. Most of the works are photos and sculptures, many works are presented in video projecting as well. The title of the exhibition is called HARD TARGET.
These works are artistic presentations of sport. The artists break down the phenomenon of sports. They re-construct these ideas and build them into exhibitionable formats. Couple artists use words (text) as the carriers. Glenn Ligon 's Gold Mudbone (Liar) #2 is a print with a paragraph of written story. The story related to the sport theme in terms of the story describes an incredible power of African ethnical male. It refers to a specific racial group as athletics who dominated and often seen as the most competitive component in the contest. The print looks like a urban underground prophet because of its dustiness and brownish texture.
The other work by Doug Aitken is a lighten text of "START SWIMMING" the surface of the text is actually a bird-view photo of a snowy industrial area. From a distance, the work just words in blue and white color, yet look closely, it is pictures of little trucks, box buildings, and squares of land covered by snows. "Start swimming" shows so much energetic and pleasure in it. Composed by elements that is cold, dark and lifeless, the work contradicts itself in both heartbreaking and hopefulness ways.
There are many other works showing. Includes Matthew Barney's , Cremaster 4, weird video as usual, also Harun Farocki's Deep Play, which displays various screens that show different sports technologies in terms of usage for broadcasting and strategical planning.
The show also includes some star power. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno projects images of Zidane on two walls of a 90 degrees conner. Same Taylor-Wood also uses the image of Courtesy Jopling and David Beckham in his video installation.
From global super star to local high school players, to U.S.A. SPORT is the spirit of the nation, yet very criticizable. I've always like sport. It makes me aware of true humanism although in the current world both "true" and "humanism" are such ignorance words.
-------A horrible-quality youtube to open this article----------
--------and this is my blog so I don't care----------------------
Wexner Center in Columbus is exhibiting a group of works about SPORT. Most of the works are photos and sculptures, many works are presented in video projecting as well. The title of the exhibition is called HARD TARGET.
These works are artistic presentations of sport. The artists break down the phenomenon of sports. They re-construct these ideas and build them into exhibitionable formats. Couple artists use words (text) as the carriers. Glenn Ligon 's Gold Mudbone (Liar) #2 is a print with a paragraph of written story. The story related to the sport theme in terms of the story describes an incredible power of African ethnical male. It refers to a specific racial group as athletics who dominated and often seen as the most competitive component in the contest. The print looks like a urban underground prophet because of its dustiness and brownish texture.
The other work by Doug Aitken is a lighten text of "START SWIMMING" the surface of the text is actually a bird-view photo of a snowy industrial area. From a distance, the work just words in blue and white color, yet look closely, it is pictures of little trucks, box buildings, and squares of land covered by snows. "Start swimming" shows so much energetic and pleasure in it. Composed by elements that is cold, dark and lifeless, the work contradicts itself in both heartbreaking and hopefulness ways.
There are many other works showing. Includes Matthew Barney's , Cremaster 4, weird video as usual, also Harun Farocki's Deep Play, which displays various screens that show different sports technologies in terms of usage for broadcasting and strategical planning.
The show also includes some star power. Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno projects images of Zidane on two walls of a 90 degrees conner. Same Taylor-Wood also uses the image of Courtesy Jopling and David Beckham in his video installation.
From global super star to local high school players, to U.S.A. SPORT is the spirit of the nation, yet very criticizable. I've always like sport. It makes me aware of true humanism although in the current world both "true" and "humanism" are such ignorance words.
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