EXHIBITION AND MEBy Edina Hurkecz

ANSEL ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY FROM . .

NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM

THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA“His images of the

American landscape are known and loved through the world and have influenced generations of photographers.”

/by the brochura of the exhibition/

“-O, Ansel don’t give up the piano. The camera can not express the human.

-I don’t think the camera can, but maybe the photographer could”

/Ansel Adams/ www.theartflugblog.com

Mirror Lake, California, about

1950

I wasn’t interesting in the landscape photography before visiting Ansel Adams’ exhibition, but his images convinced me . Taking images from a mountain could be more complex then to shoot a portrait.

http://camerau.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/to-really-know-ansel-see-his-original-prints-in-person/

“We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.”

/Ansel Adams/

The corals such as broken and shaped organized antlers lying on the seaweed.

http://ccp.uair.arizona.edu/item/11757

I was impressed by the photo’s simplicity.The harmony in the disorder.

http://artblart.com/2012/10/04/exhibition-ansel-adams-at-the-waters-edge-at-the-peabody-essex-museum-salem-ma/

TATE MODERN

-Transformed Vision –the human figure after the world war

-Poetry and Dream - Surrealism and the different way

-Energy and process - simple, raw materials

The photos were taken by me, the exceptions are referenced.

Alfredo Jaar video

The room was dark when I stepped in, only a few light was reflected on the wall. People were sitting on the floor around the tables.I felt like I was 15 years ago in the Queen's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, where people set and meditated on the thousand years old stones.

Great Pyramid in Giza

Queen’s chamber

http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/secretchambers4.htm

Marisa merz

Untitleed (living sculpture 1966)

It was my favorite piece of art on the exhibition. Marisa Merz used this cold and rigid aluminium as a flexible , easily shaping, material. Hanging from the ceiling give a airiness for the creation. I believed it is very light, and I was waiting for a breeze to blow it away.

The title could be: Jellyfishes

video

“EXPERIMENT” /AND SUMMARYThe giant doorIs there a huge door on the left side of the first room of the Energy and Process exhibition? I wasn’t sure, when I first looked, whether or not it is a piece of art or it is just a door. Also, there is a small board on the wall, on the left side of the door. My friend went to read the text after our short conversation .It wasn’t a piece of art, but we started to look at and admire it as though it was. My friend stepped closer, but I stayed behind waiting for the people’s reaction. Slowly others started to look at the door as well, creating a smaller traffic jam. What is it art and who can state from an object it is a piece of art or it is not?