Paddy Johnson of Art Fag City says that the BP disaster has changed her view of a sculpture from 2007.
Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes can’t help but think of the humans interfering with nature when ruminating on the the Minneapolis Institute of Arts’ recent acquisition of Doug Aitken’s film Migration.
Both of these stories reminds me of something I heard last week about Nancy Rubins. Before this most recent show currently up at Gagosian Gallery here in Beverly Hills her last gallery showing was to be in New York. The show was of sculptures she had made using parts of planes. The date of the opening? September 11, 2001. Needless to say, the show never opened… and Rubins hasn’t worked with plane parts since. What was once a beautiful sculpture investigating space and construction became forever tainted with the most horrible of tragedies and frightening coincidence.
It seems inevitable that personal experience will always alter the audience’s perception of the piece and when the collective audience is experiencing the event as a whole, it changes the way the piece will be seen. Very interesting.
