Was God a Visionary?
The Armory Show International Fair of New Art New York City - Part 3 of 3
Well, after writing so much about God being a designer, a style precursor, the idea is now to understand in this New York cultural Marathon that is killing me what contemporary artists have in mind, in their heart, and how do they envision the world at the 2006 Armory show of new art.
It is the world’s leading art fair exclusively devoted to contemporary art: 148 international galleries, including many of the most important contemporary dealers showcasing new art from around the world. This enormous exhibition is taking place at the Piers 91&92 down the Hudson River. Of all exhibitions this month (quite a few believe me!) this one is my favorite. The reason is about one word, vision. I have always been fascinated by what comes around in the world’s trends, and if we agree with what I said in my last post about creation and transformation: “what comes around, goes around“. The fundamental law of Karma, at its origins is once more pure Kabbalah; so to what degree artists are precursors of what comes around?
Artist through the centuries have been the voice and the channels of our society and their creations, art, a reflection of it.
Why? Through their sensibility they would rise to certain dimensions in the realm of what Cabbalists consider to be 99% of the unknown or unrevealed world. Some like Van Gogh had troubled vision and suffered of hallucination, due to hunger and poverty, even though their works of art would be as poignant and brilliant in capturing the real essence of light.
But what is the light that we are talking about after all?
The sense of sight is what semantically we call visual perception consisting of the ability to detect the light and interpret as perception known as eyesight or naked eye vision. In religion, visions comprise inspirational renderings, generally of a future state believed to come from a deity via prophets.
Everything we see basically is an illusion that has a format of what many call “Déjà vu?“ or revelations. Then God, when he created the world in seven days, had a “Déjà Vu“ (already seen) insight?
Could we call someone having “Déjà Vu” insights a visionary or a prophet? Was therefore God, a visionary himself? Or are artists cabalists? Or are cabalists creators like artists? Or was God an artist? Or are artists Gods?
It looks it’s all about envisioning the light.
Let’s try to go back to the exhibition. Wherever I have been I could sense the concept of movement.
Cameras watching every step of anyone passing by, numbers registered in counters appended in the wall, beautiful electronic art photography on the walls representing waterfalls where a couple could comfortably seat holding hands in a dark room listening to the calming noise of water falling down. Surrealistic painting depicting reality to the detail almost inviting us not to believe in it, fertility African goddess totems with modern doctors stethoscopes appended in their chests. Carefully selected words written in neons of light composing hot sentences like “you in my skin“ obviously created to provide the user safe and emotional comfort in his home. Optical wall mechanical devises to quiet down, almost hypnotize children like adults and adults like kids. “Garota de Ipanema” girls sensually and graphically moving their hips like we’d see them on a Rio de Janeiro shore except that in this case we capture the feeling in an acrylic box filtering a white strong back light obviously very uplifting in a rainy day of a distant and different geographic hemisphere.
Exhibitors from all over the world showed their concern and criticism of society through art; most of them offered the most valuable solutions that rich international collectors from the large public appreciated, valued and certainly acquired as provisory alternative “pacifiers” or consolation to what has to come next.
At the age of the Big Bang there was only light, in the darkness… Did God see it all?
Related Links:
The exhibition:
http://www.thearmoryshow.com/index2.php
The Galleries:
http://galeriealminerech.com/
http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/
http://www.kukjegallery.com/eng/artworks_view1.php?works_no=14
http://www.postmastersart.com/index.html
http://www.thearmoryshow.com/index2.php?mode=eshow&id=941
http://www.thearmoryshow.com/index2.php?mode=eshow&id=1039
http://www.thearmoryshow.com/index2.php?mode=eshow&id=1029
http://www.arndt-partner.com/
The lighting studio design:
http://www.levylighting.com/architectural_lighting/public_spaces/index.html
Petter Hegre's
