jeff wall, rineke dijkstra, olafur eliasson, and more

currently, the SFMOMA has some wonderful pieces on display, it's really worth the 7 dollar student entrance fee. I want to point out some high lights

when you first come in, olafur eliasson drops a bombin the form of a wildly swinging fan attached to a secured rope. the simple fan, with no other robotic controls, just swings beautiful and wildly above your head, so close it tickles your hair.

his frozen car piece, your mobile experience, is such bullshit. i know he did it for the connections and the money. it's just bullshit. it pisses me off to even talk about it

his beauty piece, with a wall of water vapors pouring down is, of course, beautifulas you walk through the mist, the rainbow created by the fine water and a strong incandescent light really talks to the brilliance of what he does in seeing the beautiful in the simple

oh, his photographs suck, i mean, to show them in the same building as jeff wall or rineke dijkstra is just embarrassing.

the only other piece i really liked of his was the yellow mono spectrum room, a room completely filled with a narrow yellow light spectrum light so that everything you see becomes black and white. this is magic, but it's entertaining magic. i think if olafur were to become a magician, he should call him self, the magnificent eliasson. hell, i'd pay to see that

i was actually quite disappointed at the pieces, i liked his other pieces i've seen before so much more. the other pieces in the sfmoma that i don't write about are more mirror reflection pieces that really speak to his obsession with reflectivity and the infinite.

Jeff wall, well, it's jeff wall, and jeff wall speaks for himself, there's no reason to talk about it, or show you photographs of it, because reproductions of jeff wall pieces just, by far, do it no justice, so you have to see it for yourself to experience it.

rineke dijkstra... wow, her girl on the piece, to see it in person, is quite amazing
it's just amazing, she photographers her subjects while they wait to be photographed, and the images are just absolutely amazing. this one in particular, look at it for a bit, think, and see what the image reminds you of.
another bombshell is my personal favorite of all her work: the buzzclub, liverpool
a video of it can be found here
the piece just films people and what happens if you put a song on at a liverpool club, brilliant!

the douglas gordon show is ok, i like maybe 3 of his works alot, but only if you understand the video art people that preceded him cause it's mostly inside jokes.

joseph cornell... i just still don't get.

so yeah, great stuff
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