Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Mass MoCA

Randy and Eddie (as Scott makes them take ANOTHER picture)

Like I said the other day, Ed, Randy and I traveled up to "Mass MoCA" this week-end.  Full title is the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.  LINK.
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It is set in a Campus of about 20 old factory buildings; it has prompted an urban renascence and turned the area into something of an art capital.  Not all the buildings have been fully rehabbed yet, and some are rented out to businesses to offset the costs.  But the buildings make for great spaces.
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We saw "The Wandering Veil" series from Izhar Patkin.  It is made up of images printed or painted on huge panels of veiled material.   Set up in rooms it is a little like stepping into a dream.  One room would have been awkward, but after a couple you kind of give in to the experience.
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This was a fountain / water sculpture made of styrofoam chunks and cut outs.  Very cool.  It looks very "marble / stone"-ish in the flesh.


This is part of a retrospective of Sol LeWitt and his massive art walls.  I thought LeWitt's work was a little repetitive, but that is probably just my inability to appreciate it.