Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Shaping perception... the power of fine art?

Copper sulphate, Roger Hiorns knows all about its properties and  in one Google search so can you, yet, Hiorn's is not a scientist  and he is not aiming to educate, and nor is this a blog of mere description of a writers feelings , or my own ideologies associated with my interpretation.



Instead, this  is the why, the association which the fine artist applies to their practice, their finished piece.  This soul question in turn objectifies the viewer in the way of associating  their own intellect, to the reasoning behind transforming a block of flats into the glittering sculpture.
The true answer is one of unrivalled simplicity for it is the answer of every viewer; their own individual response of another's existentialism, in turn shaping a new perception formed out of  their existing feelings.




In one perspective, this is the encapsulation of incomprehendable shapes, shadows and negative space all created out of one explosion...supported and captured in this photograph.  Cornelia Parke's sculpture is therefore a lot of different feelings for a lot of different people; the depth of her exploded shed is not as deep as one might imagine; to engage with it is to move inside, to become part of the motionless explosion, the life-force of the suspense. 

Memories, feelings, all captured and presented in any one of the following instillations by Annet Messager.


The reasoning behind this investigation was quite simple, to find three fine artists who have used transformation in their  art work. Yet, the answer to this investigation arises not from anyone of the chosen examples, for countless others could have been used to exemplify the following point. That the power of fine art is transformation, the power to shape a viewer's perception through their own response, their own interaction with that of the artist's thoughts.  




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