MOCAK: Permanent Collection
1:13 p.m.
Due to lack of space, many museums are forced to keep part of their collections away from the public galleries. At the MOCAK this was solved through a strategy with very good results: pieces of the permanent collection are displayed through small exhibitions with a certain curatorial script. These days is the turn of “Motion as the Stuff of Art”, which presents a series of objects and installations in which movement plays a key role. In fact the kinetic aspect is not only an active part of the artwork but, in some cases, becomes the object itself (like Einstein said, movement transforms into matter). For example Gilder, by Zilvinas Kempinas (Lithuania, 1969), has two fans that keep a metallic ribbon in the air. The sound of the vibration of the ribbon, plus its constant fluttering become the sculpture itself. If we add to this the feeling of levitation it transmits, we accept that this is a kinetic installation that can also be interpreted as something (or someone) balancing between to opposing forces.
Gilder, by Zilvinas Kempinas (2014)
Julian Opie (United Kindom, 1958), another artist participating in the exhibition, uses a variety of methods to make the gaze of her daughter’s eyes to move around. From Venetian mosaics to computerized animation, the artist made several portraits of his daughter. The Elena below is one of the most realistic.
Elena, de Julian Opie (2014)
Many of the works on display present movement in a more implied way: objects placed in uncommon positions defying the forces of gravity.
Cut, by Daniel Spoerri (2014)
From the serie Plating, de Zbigniew Warpechowski (1971/1999)
Recycling Art, by Bjorn Norgaard (2016)
The installation Recycling Art, in which a Venus of Milo is, literally, placed in a trash container, can be interpreted as an overcoming of the ideal of beauty of Antiquity. However, the “recycling art” suggests that the sculpture could be regenerated: what can be recycled (according to ecology) is the material that makes the sculpture, what would make the work disappear. Many artistic vanguards as Futurism asked for the destruction of museums and the annihilation of the art of the past. In a way those demands are similar to the recycling concept as they both claim for space for newer art.
MOCAK does a great job with this exhibition in which movement and simbolisms allow us to get to know the work of Polish and other European artists that are part of its collection.
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