Friday, August 28

The Metropolitan Museum of Art->Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom


The Met is displaying a sculpture on the roof you can see the official page here. The exhibition ends November 9th. I found the stairwell with mirrors all over the walls which exits the roof more stimulating than the exhibition itself. You can get an idea of the space in the video below.

The roof was surprisingly small considering the amount of space in the museum, and about a quarter or so is devoted to the "roof cafe" brandishing overpriced juice, snacks and bottled water. That said, the piece itself was interesting in terms of the complicated construction, but the complex construction was not made apparent by the composition. The bright stainless steel construction does not mix with the mid day sun reflecting bright rays into the viewers' eyes making it harder to appreciate. Overall, the piece does not give "viewers the sense of being immersed in the midst of a cataclysmic force of nature" but rather they were looking for another dimension of the piece which isn't there.

The piece brought into consideration the juxtaposition of man vs. nature and the gray area that is inherent with the assumption that man and nature are actually separate from each other.

It is not worth a trip just for this exhibit. The video would have done the trick for me.


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