Tag: MCA

Anish Kapoor

I like to start New Year with arts and this time, encountered with Anish Kappor’s works at MCA.

Passing the huge polished stainless steel mirror work, Sky Mirror, which is reflecting the sky in front of the building, I entered into the gallery room filled with over size – but smaller than Sky Mirror – art works. While I was playing with my reflection and distortion on the stainless hexahedron, I felt like playing in front of a fun mirror in an amusement park. Also, the slight shift of movement appeared on the surface reminded me Daniel Crooks’s video work with distorted images. When I reached to rectangle shape covered with deep blue pigment, I thought about Yves Klein’s International Klein Blue (IKB). The surface protruded from the white wall radiated indescribable sense when I stood in front of it. That was the moment of detecting a great sensation through the appreciation of the simplicity in unexpected way.

 

Recorders : Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Pulse…the visualization of heart beats into a single flashing bulb in the darkness! What a thrilling and beautiful moment! I was so amazed to see that my flickering heart beats were dissolved away among the crowd of other people’s heart beat lights.

The installation works by the artist, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer speaks about human beings through the electronic engineering. The works connect people: My body shape is overlapped on the previous people’s body impirnts through the electronic heat detection; My voice is overwrapped with the recording of previous people’s voices.

People interact with the works, by drawing, designing and performing. Without the human touch, the artwork would be a mere machine.

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* Soyoun Kim holds the copyright of all images here.