As I mentioned in my post last night, yesterday I visited three exhibitions, as that's a normal round for me each month. Such a day is full of surprises as first of all, I never know what I'm going to see, who is exhibiting, but even if I knew, there are still a lot of surprises when I step into each galleries.
Surprises can go three ways, which is good, bad and neutral, meaning you're surprised it didn't surprise you 😆 Yeah, sounds complicated, but there's this too.
My experience in these galleries is mostly positive and can honestly tell you, that up until now, there wasn't a single exhibition that left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Yeah, up until now.
Art is art, you don't have to understand it, or like it and just because you don't like it, or understand it, it doesn't mean it's bad. Maybe not for your taste, but not bad. What I saw yesterday can't be called bad from art perspective, bu can definitely be called really bad from a lot of other perspectives.
As I said yesterday, this specific exhibition used to be for graphics, which means ink, pencil and charcoal, but this year they decided to make it quite a bit broader and accept all kinds of art. This is how there were several types of digital arts, digital portrait prints, which will never compete with a human made one by the way, by hand. Anyway, let's get to the point.
So after roaming around in the rooms, at some point I spotted a screen, which in itself wouldn't be surprising as many museums and exhibitions have them to showcase different things and I appreciate the knowledge shared through a screen, but what I saw here crossed any line.
The screen was on and in my confusion, I asked if that was part of the exhibition, or if it was just some commercial or something? I was told there was a loop of two "artworks" repeating. This was where I raised my eyebrows for the obvious reasons, but I said ok, let's give it a try before judging or forming any opinion and this is what I saw.
Kata Ungvári-Zrinyi, István Makkai – Friendly Breakwater
I hate seeing GIFs used in posts, but if I were to use one, that would be the wtf ostrich. Yes, this was the 1st WTF moment and I think you agree with me.
Two people were playing, hitting back and forth that big inflatable tetrapod and that was all, the whole video of a minute, maybe two.
Breakwater shape was what first came in my mind as you see these cement tetrapods on beaches, used to stop the water wash the shore. Indeed, hundreds of kilometer of lands are disappearing yearly as water takes back land. Numbers may not be accurate, but the fact is.
I understand this is a performance video, that's alright, but wtf is doing at a graphics exhibition?
Olivia Rosca B. - Escape
The other was a bit different. It was called video art, 2D animation, video editing. It was the process of creating a paper bird, that escaped from the cage and found its flock.
Let's start with the good thing, which was that there were plenty of physical artworks, even if a good part was digital art, so this, what you saw above, was just a fraction of the exhibition and I hope they keep it that way.
Digital art printed is again, not what I'm going to exhibitions for, but if the separate this category from the analog art, mention it in advance, I can avoid it and live with it.
This type of digital art, that is presented in the second video, about the bird, on the other hand is a different category. If they take it further and organize exhibitions on screen ... then you're going to go and pay to sit or stand in front of the screen. Well, count me out. Thank you very much, but I can watch a screen at home, if I want to, but prefer traditional art and that's what brings me to galleries.
If you're interested, this genre is classified as Time-Based Media (TBM) or Media Art and there are dedicated spaces for it in major cities, which says sooner or later it's going to happen everywhere, or at least in the bigger cities.
I have one request though. Don't mix it with traditional art please! The two are not mixable.
I'm not going to ask you to share your opinion this time, I know you're going to do it anyway 😄
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Haha after your warning on the last post, I was waiting to see what crossed the line! Watching two people play with a giant inflatable block on TV is definitely not what anyone goes to a graphics gallery for. Did anyone else in the room actually stop to watch the whole video?
I was mostly alone in the gallery, a lady came in during my visit, but she rushed through the whole venue in 2 minutes, while listening to music on her phone, without a headset. So I doubt she stopped to see what that was all about on the screen 😳
Haha running through a quiet gallery in 2 minutes while playing music on speaker without headphones sounds like she was part of the modern performance art too!
Some people have neither manners, nor respect for others. Sad and shocking too. The time for playing music on the street without a headset has long passed. It was never a polite thing in closed, public places.
So true. Respecting other people and keeping quiet in public spaces is basic manners, yet it feels like common courtesy is getting rarer every single day.
Unfortunately.
Well, in the past I visited some similar exhibitions and...every time I watched a similar one was always a WTF moment for me. :D Maybe it's because I prefer another kind/style of art, but while I can understand and appreciate a "cut" by Fontana (thinking about the history of contemporary art), this kind of media-art are not for me. 😁
😆Why I am not surprised? I knew you would side with traditional art, as expected. Nothing wrong with choosing what you like, so no worries.
Did you have to pay to get into this place? I maybe would have asked for my money back :)
No, this was for free, so no money back, but imagine if you pay :)
I am also a physical and traditional artist, and before entering the NFT space, I didn’t have a good opinion of digital artists. But afterward, I saw that they also put a lot of effort into their work; perhaps the passage of time will make us more optimistic about them.
You're missing the point. It's not about optimism, it's about separating it from traditional art.
I agree with you on this matter.💯👌
Great story, I loved the way you describe it, thanks for sharing.
Glad you liked it.
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