May 12
The Index
1 result(s)
- Space is the Place - Hudson River Museum
1- Jane and Louise Wilson, Service Module, Mir, 2000, chromogenic print mounted on aluminum, 71 x 71 in. (180.3 x 180.3 cm), Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York
2- Adam Ross, The City at the Edge of Time, 02, 2004, oil, alkyd and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 50 in. (121.9 x 127 cm), Courtesy the artist and Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
3- Lia Halloran, Up, Down, Left, Right, 2003-04, oil and Flashe on canvas-wrapped panel, 72 x 48 in. (182.9 x 121.9 cm), The Speyer Family Collection, New York
4- Aleksandra Mir, First Woman on the Moon, 1999, single-channel video with sound, 12 mins., Collection of the artistThe infinite immobility of the void suddenly got animated. The travelling exhibition Space is the Place shows the multitude of faces, the moving set of values, the wealth of visions engendered by space exploration in the minds of artists in the last fifty years.
Painting, sculpture, video or sound installations, photography, performance are all represented: after all space, lest we forget, is all around us.
Be it gender inequalities, brought out by Aleksandra Mir's video First Woman on the Moon (1999) shot exactly thirty years after a man first laid foot on the moon, or the formidable liberation of the body in a zero-gravity environment as revealed by the performance of the MIR group, which comes at the cost of terrifying frailty inches from the murderous void, the show conveys the notion that space is not a frozen, objective place, rather the opposite: a different place for each one of us, and a canvas bearing the projection of very human affects.
The British Wilson twins gained access to disused facilities, once part of the Soviet space program. They photographed the desolation that enwraps the vast hangars and the rooms of the former training center - piles of dusty space suits, empty lockers... Their work underlines the painful impression of vanity that creeps even into such a transcendent enterprise as cosmic exploration.
Space is the Place
June 21 through September 7, 08
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers
