Went to see the Ashes and Snow exhibition while in LA. In the Nomadic Museum.
The art was a bit ho hum. The artist made a very good decision to have his art in such a magnificent building because otherwise it would have looked quite a lot like new age hotel art. If architecture is frozen music then this art is frozen Deep Forest. Big, monumental, ponderously full of staged significance. You can imagine a BP logo in the corner.
The building though is fantastic.
A cathedral of cardboard and shipping containers. It’s all cheap, everyday materials but the scale and proportions make it beautiful and lovely. Too big for me to get decent pictures but you can see some here. It’s grand and intriguing on the outside and mysterious and calm on the inside. Very like a cathedral.
Do you know if the exhibit is making its way to Australia? I've been dying to see that amazing building.
Posted by: xiaohan | February 09, 2006 at 01:47 AM