| My day with The Gates I had off from school this week, and decided to use that opportunity to catch up with some friends in the city. Of course our day would not have been complete without some time in Central Park to see what all the fuss was about. Saffron? It is warm, and currently the landscape is very nuetral...but I'm not sure that it was Saffron enough? The Gates? Mark diSuvero meets Andy Goldsworthy ...it reminded me of the Wall that Went for a Walk in so many ways, yet the structures were so much like diSuvero's work I am wondering if the original inspiration came from a visit to Storm King? My visit? My interactions were with the work were not so convincing to the film crew that followed Chris Gorman and I around. Yes I said film crew. We were followed by the one and only Antonio Ferrara from Maysles Films . This is the film company that has followed Jeanne Claude and Christo around for all of their installations, documenting them from start to finish. They were in the park filming the reactions to the work, somehow, we were chosen. My discussions with Chris, and my true fellings were too different things, and the honesty of my feelings about the work was very evident in my eyes. Frankly, I was not over-whelmed. I think it was that the color just didn't have enough intensity for the environment it was put into, or maybe the section I saw was way to static, who knows? It has been bothering me enough to NEED to venture in again this week though. I have e-mailed the film maker, asking him to consider meeting me again, no comment. I actually found myself looking for reviews that had something "objective" to say, but to no avail, everyone in NY seems to have gone MAD with the enormity of the ART HISTORICAL context...I do have one thing to say, the GATES got the audience to LOOK at art for more than 30 seconds, now maybe the rest of the art world has a shot at that too. |
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