Moving Pictures Exhibit, Guggenheim, NYC
Last weekend, team KYD went to the Guggenheim to see the Moving Pictures exhibit. It was a blast, and fortunately for me they have some pictures online. Sam Taylor Wood’s science was pretty tight, as was Pierre Huyghe’s Third Memory bank robbin’ narrative. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s Climate was the video-installation version of The Parallax View, all boom mics and video surveillance and clinical murderousness. The culmination of it all was Bill Viola’s Going Forth By Day, a powerful five-part projection within a single room. Turns out we did the whole thing backwards, which meant we waltzed into this room without having read the (crappily written) explanatory bumpf, and had to piece together meanings in our own way. Amazing, that: the sense of mystery that surrounds great art, and the urge to solve it; so similar, one imagines, to the discovery of a corpse, and the urge to find its author.
Another artist feller I liked, who wasn’t mentioned on the Guggie website: Gregory Crewdson. Fabulous high-budget suburban surrealism. This link even has stars: Gwynneth Paltrow and Tilda Swinton and Phil Seymour Hof, in photographs! (this one is great, no?)
Hello,
I am wondering if you might be able to help. I am writing a theory paper on how to read a photograph, changing the context of it’s meaning etc. I went to the moving picture exhibit but need to know the name of one of the artists. Do you know who did the instalation of photographs of dead people in one of the rooms. (Sounds a bit morbid but totally relevant to my paper). Basically you walked in and there were photos hanging on the walls and from the ceiling very powerful. If you can tell me I would appreciate it.
thanx
Sara
Sara, I saw that show a year and a half ago, and my memory is garbage anyway, so I can be no help to you. I’m not even sure we saw the same show.