MOMA PS1: 9/11 Exhibition

George Segal's "Woman on a Park Bench" (1998) sits calmly at the head of Roger Hiorns's "Untitled" (2006).

MOMA PS1 has created an exhibition about the September 11 attacks. In this gallery you can find everything from photographs, paintings, sculptures related to this attack. One of the most impressive was George Segal's sculpture "woman on a park bench" (1998). Here you can see how the woman is looking at the ashes that remained of the twin towers and the people who made it out alive from this attack. Segal died a year before the attacks. His sculpture existed 3 years before “everything changed.” And yet both artist and art seem perfectly apt for the occasion. The woman in white seated on a bench could have been one of the survivors who fled the clouds of debris racing through the streets. We see her frozen in a moment of respite. Segal’s Woman on a Park Bench could be one of those victims in the moment of resignation, taking the time to put her affairs in order.

Lee Ufan: Making Infinity

       The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is presenting Lee Ufan with an exibithion called “Marking Infinity”, the first North American museum devoted to the artist-philosopher Lee Ufan a preeminent sculptor, painter, and writer. One of the sculptures that caught my attention was “Relatum (formely system A)” 1969/88 Steel and Cotton. This sculpture shows a cube with steel plates whose seams were bursting with cotton. There is the illusion of the weight of cotton fibers pushing againts the steel plates, which amounts to an assault on the cube as a stable form of a closed system inside and outside the boundary. This to me represents the physical opening of the objects in the world of today. We can explore the coexistence of the structure and process of stability and transition. We change when the world changes. 

Color Wheel

NEW COLOR WHEEL!!!

I changed the center color. I hope its ok.

"Witness - A Look Back to the Future"

            I have considered September 11- 2001 one of the most abominable strikes delivered to America, leaving a distress to people who live in the city of New York. LaGuardia Community College organized an exhibition called, "Witness - A Look Back to the Future". I was drawn to a painting by Robert Selwyn titled 
"911 explosion", which seemed so real that I thought it was a photograph, but as I approached I realized that it was a canvas with oil paint.  This painting expresses the feeling of helplessness and awareness for we must always be on guard  at any sign of terrorism. But most importantly, it symbolizes the fall of one of the most powerful financial sectors of America, leaving a vulnerable and fearful country questioning about the effectiveness of their home security measures.