The Swing, The Robin and The Rose by sandra46
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Is the audience an integral part of a work of art? This installation was made by an Italian artist in the garden of a building for students' study owned by the Catholic Church in Padova. The organizers from the public Health Service had hired a room to host a series of conferences. During the breaks I spent my time in the garden. The rose was in a bed bordering the space where the swing and the robin were frozen in time. So the rose was an integral part of the context. The effect was stunning, because it looked real from a distance, and among the plants. Yet, obviously, a swing can't stay still while swinging, and here I intervened with my postwork. I felt that as an audience my perceptions were part of the artwork, since it was in a public space. I tried to give the idea of action to it by duplicating the frozen istants. In fact, time is made of a series of instants, almost, but not, identical. In some way, this artwork is the opposite of yesterday's Wet Pool. Tomorrow I'll post the swing and the robin as it appears to the casual viewer.
Thank you for your kind comments.
Comments (39)
Minda
soooo beautiful capture sandra!!
MC-Jay-One
Superb idea and work !!
durleybeachbum
Oh, the number of times I've been engaged that fascinating discussion!! A very interesting image.
decie
cool and great collage of beautiful photos.will be back to normal soon, i got that pig of a thing lol.
lucindawind
oh so lovely ! excellent
wysiwig
Excellent collage. Beautiful rose.
renecyberdoc
superb collage.
bebert
tres joli collage , belle rose.
anahata.c
Ok, case in point: (Boy I hope I'm not getting boring here, lol!) Cubism. They took the 'perceived' image—a violin, guitar & wine bottle—and chopped it into separate pieces—some frontal, some from the side, some from the back, etc—and then piled all those pieces into a big conglomeration in the center (!), turning the mess into a fugue of forms, textures & hues. And they called it "Violin, Guitar & Wine Bottle". They even pasted real newspapers into them. How's that different from what you did? Whether intentional or no, they were showing objects from several angles simultaneously—the moments you speak of—and from several time-frames too. It implies that we see that way everyday—ie, we don't just see a "set view": We see myriad views every minute, and collate them in our heads. In a way, the strange art is the single-view, because we rarely see life as a single view. So, the Cubists may have been much more realistic in their own peculiar way than the 'realist'. (I don't know what Rembrandt would've said about that; but then I'd tell Rembrandt, "look at your late-period brushstrokes: You took apart a face into glob after glob of light, color & form: You're more Cubist than you think!") That's what you did here, in fact what montage does overall: You made a Cubist vision of this fascinating & playful installation along with its rose. And if you were a Cubist, you'd do it again & again, exploring all kinds of angles & lights & shades. (How many variations did Picasso or Gris do?) It's a lot of fun, and you brought out the spirit & challenge of the sculpture too. Visual music...another fine upload.