Yesterday, Aunt Yvonne (Shen shen) and Uncle Ralph (Shu shu) were in town with Foster and Harrison to visit some relatives. While the kids went to Disneyland, Shen shen and I went to see some art.
Our first visit was to a gorgeous show at MOCA called Poetics of the Handmade. The show features 5 Latin American artists who use different mostly everyday materials, and shapes or transforms each by hand. The results are beautiful, engaging, and sublime. One artist created a blob like form out of toothpicks and clay which was suspended from the ceiling. A second artist used devalued currency, cutting them into individual flowers, butterflies, trees and fanciful flying machines and then pinning them to the walls of a large room to create a picture showing consumption, creation, and resurrection.
We then went to LACMA to see the work of another artist who used everyday objects-fluourescent light tubes. Dan Flavin arranges tubes of different lengths to create beautiful, minimalist glowing sculptures. He uses different colours, pink, yellow, blue but also cool white and warm white light next to each other. The resulting work is mounted in corners or against walls in such a way as to slightly alter the architecture of the space.
Both of these are well worth a visit.
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