Happy Wednesday to you! This post is a little late but interesting never the less. While in Oxford last month me and my uni buddies visited the Modern art gallery and I wanted to share what they had to show. Modern art gallery Oxford was founded in 1966 and showcases pieces of contemporary art. The gallery is free, which is great for students and people with an interest in contemporary art but have little money to visit galleries.
When we visit the gallery they were showcasing work from Yoko Ono, Helen Chadwick, Dorothy Cross, Marina Abramovic and a few others.
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| Yoko Ono | Cloud Piece | Inkjet printed pad, 250 sheets | 14.8 x 14.8cm | 1963 (2016) |
Label reads ''Created in Spring 1963, this is an instruction work by Yoko Ono. Cloud Piece calls on each viewer to imagine a fresh way of encountering the natural world in the present moment. For It's Me to the World, visitors can take a copy of Cloud Piece and follow the instruction if desired.''
The pad was on the last piece when we got there so we didn't take it so that other people could enjoy the work. The writing to me is some what poetic and gives a sense of warmth.
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| Helen Chadwick | Viral Landscapes | Five C-print photographs, powder coated steel, aluminium, plywood, perspex, 120 x 300 x 5 cm (each) | 1989 |
Label reads ''Purchased with Art Fund support. Helen Chadwick's Viral Landscapes are presented in the same location as they appeared in her solo exhibition in 1989. The photographs each depict a rocky coastal landscape in Pembrokeshire, overlaid with painterly marks. These marks are made from the artist's cellular tissue, which was removed from her kidney, ear, mouth, cervix and blood. In a letter to the curators Chrissie Iles and David Elliot, Chadwick implored them to ''look after my cells'', referencing the closeness of these works to her 'self'. Made during the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, the works are a startling synthesis of the visceral matter of the human body, and a rendering of landscape in the vein of traditional painting. National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery Purchased with the assistance of the Art Fund in 2008.''
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| Dorothy Cross | Scales | Human skull, yellow gold leaf, coat hanger, steel wire, meteorite suspended from ceiling, height variable | 83 x 50 x 13 cm | 2014 | Courtesy of Anne Madden |
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| Dorothy Cross | Scales | Human skull, yellow gold leaf, coat hanger, steel wire, meteorite suspended from ceiling, height variable | 83 x 50 x 13 cm | 2014 | Courtesy of Anne Madden |
This piece to me looks cheap due to the gold as it looks very artificial and because the materials used aren't high quality. Though looking at it is very interesting and knowing it's been made from a human skull gets you to think about the meaning behind the piece.
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Thanks for reading, I hoped you enjoyed. I'm sorry it wasn't very long but there will be a part 2. I haven't been very well so I've not been using this blog as much as I should, I will hopefully have a more thought out post next Wednesday! x
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