Painters Online Logo

Login/register

Studio

Thoughts on installations?

Welcome to the forum.

Here you can discuss all things art with like-minded artists, join regular painting challenges, ask questions, buy and sell art materials and much more.

Make sure you sign in or register to join the discussions.

Hang on Studio Wall
Showing page 1 of 2
Author
Message

Sylvia Evans

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 16928
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 4788
Posted
http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern/display/materials-and-objects/sheela-gowda Above is a link to an exhibition within Tate Modern. I had read about this but the reality took me a bit by surprise. I find installations a strange concept and have problems relating them to art . Have any forum members ever produced an art installation? Had thoughts re installations ? And how do you react to this one by Sheela Gowda made with Human hair ? .

Peter Davison

  • Forum Expert
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 533
Posted
I've long regarded the bulk of 'installation art' as relying on gimmickry to generate attention and media coverage, much as Grayson Perry dresses in female clothing. It has nothing to do with art and everything to do with trying to attract attention in a crowded marketplace. Having said that, I made my first visit to Tate Modern a couple of weeks ago to see the Georgia O'Keefe exhibition and was well impressed with that and some of the Tate Modern public collection, albeit there was also a quantity of stuff that passed me by, but it would be a poorer world if art was limited to one's personal taste.

Michael Robinson

  • New Member
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 2904
Posted
Took a look at your link Sylvia, I'm sorry but my first reaction was 'what a load of rubbish'. How on earth can that be called art!! I don't get it at all. Syd I'd like to see you in that 'get up', especially the flowery frock, made me smile.
michael

Michael Edwards

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 3863
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 1556
Posted
I love it Ellen - just move the large can of paint about 4 inches to the right and you've cracked it.
DSCF4152

Anonymous User

  • Esteemed User
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 1263
Posted
I think instillation art should represent something that the viewer understands and needs no explanation, and with that said, the best piece of work I saw many years ago was (and sadly I cant remember the artist) a series of walls with heaps of discarded rubbish and detritus, now know as fly tip rubbish - bits of cupboards old toys the odd cot etc Seeing this I knew exactly what this artist was saying, human filth and the lack of pride in not only their own environment but no respect for the area others live in. Some walked out saying, 'I don't get this'...really, please open your eyes and have a good look next you go out.
michael

Michael Edwards

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 3863
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 1556
Posted
I enjoyed Creeds work No 227 (if you're not familiar with it just google it) so much so I wrote a short verse - sorry to inflict it on you CREED: Work No 227 In changing light with eyes wide open I slowly enter the empty room, alone, a work of art I view unseen.
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 24825
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 8654
Posted
Normally - and indeed in this case - installations leave me uninvolved, incurious, unmoved, and untouched. However, there's an explanation here, a narrative available, and I can understand it at least - and it's not phrased in the usual gobbledegook which suggests the curator (if we must use that word for 'organizer') of the exhibition hasn't really understood it either but is making a brave stab at disguising the fact. So, no, it doesn't do anything for me but I can see it as art - just not art that I like or care about. Having read some solemn fathead proclaiming that David Hockney was a rotten painter the other day, though, I'm reluctant to dismiss artwork just because I don't personally get it, or like it. (It was on Facebook he or she said it, not here.) http://www.isleofwightlandscapes.net http://www.wightpaint.blogspot.co.uk
DSCF4152

Anonymous User

  • Esteemed User
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 1263
Posted
Installation art doesn't do it for me, either, it was just the first one I ever saw that made any sense, if 'sense' is the correct word. solemn fathead, I like that description.

Edited
by carol

Sylvia Evans

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 16928
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 4788
Posted
Didnt a gallery cleaner sweep up what she thought was a pile of rubish and throw it away.????? This was also in the Tate on thesame day. It gives me great satisfaction it is made of hessian , rope, straw I didn't look for a meaning or an explanation I just liked it ..So maybe installations just mean different things to different people....a bit like Ellens decorators plethora.

John Kay

  • Forum Member +
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 82
Posted
I think this is the one you mean. John
michael

Michael Edwards

  • Prestige User
  • Reputation: 3863
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 1556
Posted
Me too but as you're in Colchester and I'm in Market Harborough a long straw please

Derek Snowdon

  • Forum Expert
  • Last active:
  • Posts: 849
Posted
I remember the end of term exhibition at Winchester School of art and there was a whole stripped bare room with all it's light fittings, pipes and fixed units swathed entirely in toilet rolls !!! What? Haven't been back since.
Showing page 1 of 2