chelsea gallery visits

Robert Miller Gallery- "Barthelemy Toguo"
- found the banana box flooring very interesting, added more to the work than visual items actually let you feel a piece of the work. the boxes felt a lot different to walk on then the normal gallery floor. I love the mocking tone that comes through in his work, and if its not quite mocking than i would say a nonconformist attitude. He questions authority and likes to stick it to the man. Love and chuckled over the idea of sculpting wooden suitcases knowing the police will want to search them. thing i didnt get was why so many of his works had stuff spewing from the mouth within the image. lastly one word, LASERS. HAHA i laughed when reading about his run ins with lasers.

Lehmann Maupin- "Juergen Teller"
-the nudes positioned next to the sculptures in the museum seem to be breaking the social norm. Not sure if the artist was trying to represent beauty with beauty, in the form of juxtaposing beautiful naked women with beautiful sculptures. Although representing beauty with beauty the objective of the work from what i can see is also deals with naked women vs naked men sculptures so maybe its a feminist piece. despite not really getting the idea conceptually i found it interesting by the photographs of naked women inside a museum. a place that holds strict guidelines for viewing the art within its walls. seeing some of the exhibits roped off yet having a naked women behind the ropes is captivating.

PaceWildenstein- "Maya Lin"
-probably the most provocative gallery i visited visually and physically. walking around the work the artists seems to deliberately take up the viewers space. one walkway around the 2x4 Landscape was so tight that when someone walked on the oncoming side of traffic it feels as if you were going to knock into each other sending them into the sculpture. To me Water Line, was the most interesting piece out of any of the galleries. you were able at some points to put your head through the sculpture which changed the view of the piece completely. visually it was interesting to see the sculpture coming out from the walls. being positioned up tight against the walls gave it a feeling as if it was actually growing out of the walls. and i know the piece was relating to a map of the ocean floor but the title of the show was "Three Ways of Looking at the Earth," and having the sculpture appearing to come from the wall related to the idea of earth.