Art 21/ Artist VI:
Frankly speaking, I normally do not like video artworks because those are normally hard to understand due to sound effects and mysterious motions. But Lynda Benglis, a video pioneer and sculptor partially broke this prejudice. She used different art materials to do installations all over the country. While she was working on video and polyurethane artworks, she commented:
"They were like statements of the reality that you feel in the conversations that artists have with each other and with the world and with their times."
"I found my space, so to speak, because I was particularly interested in painterly materials and also form and space and where the gesture could take the material. All of them were drawn with either a bucket of a can, the use of the body, the use of the hand, the use of the movement of the body."
When I saw her intention and what she was trying to show, her works looked much more interesting. One of her work installed in India seems to represent a snake. She drew up the exterior image as a snake. Then crossing its body could be seemed as knots, which further represents the beginning of life. I was amazed how she put those altogether to make a deeper meaning into her work. Other artworks, wrapped pieces of gauze, were to depict the canvas wrapped in the structure of the wire. However, people's reactions were apathetic. They saw those as Kotexes. At first, she felt insulted by them. But later, she began to understand their opinion and tried other way to present the same material. She tied them into simple knots to create a space. And her change made by hearing the viewer's opinion got a Guggenheim for those.
Throughout the video, I could feel her passion on what she was doing. She was really enjoying it. So I became to admire her "state".
"They were like statements of the reality that you feel in the conversations that artists have with each other and with the world and with their times."
"I found my space, so to speak, because I was particularly interested in painterly materials and also form and space and where the gesture could take the material. All of them were drawn with either a bucket of a can, the use of the body, the use of the hand, the use of the movement of the body."
 |
| Still from Now (1973) |
When I saw her intention and what she was trying to show, her works looked much more interesting. One of her work installed in India seems to represent a snake. She drew up the exterior image as a snake. Then crossing its body could be seemed as knots, which further represents the beginning of life. I was amazed how she put those altogether to make a deeper meaning into her work. Other artworks, wrapped pieces of gauze, were to depict the canvas wrapped in the structure of the wire. However, people's reactions were apathetic. They saw those as Kotexes. At first, she felt insulted by them. But later, she began to understand their opinion and tried other way to present the same material. She tied them into simple knots to create a space. And her change made by hearing the viewer's opinion got a Guggenheim for those.
Throughout the video, I could feel her passion on what she was doing. She was really enjoying it. So I became to admire her "state".
 |
| Wing (1970) |
 |
| The Graces (2003-2005) |
No comments:
Post a Comment