We would like to invite you to join us on our stroll through a comparably new but quite successful "temple of culture": "The Museum of Modern Art of the City of Lugano" (Museo d'Arte Moderna della Città di Lugano).
The current exhibition (12th November 2006 - 4th Februrary 2007) displays more than 80 works, paintings and sculptures, of the contemporary Spanish artist Miquel Barceló (*1957). We took a closer look at his biography and his paintings.
The most striking aspect is the mixture of materials Barceló uses to create a certain liveliness in his paintings. For example he "recycles" rice, spaghetti, fibres, straw, sand and newspapers. It was very entertaining to discover what materials were used in the different paintings. The temptation to explore the screens by touching them was therefore tentalising, but the guards of the museum were anxiously aware of this and always close on our heels. Even though his use of materials is unconventional the displayed subjects are derived from everyday life. Therefore the exposed works of art are quite easily accessible, also for laymen (like we consider ourselves). Most of his paintings are realised on huge screens and create the illusion that you easily could "enter" resp. "step inside" them.
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by Alexandra Sowka and Mona Contzen
2 comments:
I liked the poster of the Barcelo exhibition. The painting of the artist on it seems to be symbolic: he paints with his own blood...
Thanks for this post, I will definetly visit this exhibition, need sometimes to get a bit of sublime.
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