photograph from http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/fiona-banner-selects-v-c-collection/
Kerze 1982 © Gerhard Richter 2014. Image courtesy V-A-C collection.
Bridget Riley, Stretch 1964 © Bridget Riley 2014 All rights reserved, courtesy Karsten Schubert, London. Image courtesy V-A-C collection
British artist Fiona Banner chooses
works of art from the V-A-C Collection, Moscow,
in an installation that plays with museum
display conventions.
Banner has devised an installation which reveals but also
conceals the image.
Rejecting conventional gallery lighting,
instead she uses coloured light which flows gently through
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black in a direct reference to the
CMYK system commonly used for printing images.
The display explores the blurred lines between language, photography and painting and includes Gerhard Richter’s Kerze (1982), a hyper realistic painting of a single, glowing candle famously used as the cover of Sonic Youth’s 1988 album Daydream Nation. While Andy Warhol’s Jackie (1964) based on photographs of Jackie Kennedy Onassis is shown alongside Stretch (1964), an optical black & white painting by Bridget Riley which appears to shift and vibrate.
As I walked into the gallery space the room was in darkness and then as the light changed the images appeared and each time the light changed the works changed - amazing visual experience. The work by James Welling was amazing in the changing light, the building within the image 'disappeared' as the light changed. stood in front of this for ages and kept going back to it...mesmerising.“I want to make a theatre for the works to act in. It is a play on the act of looking, on our perception.”...www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/fiona-banner-selects-v-c-collection
http://jameswelling.net/...Glass Houses series
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