Friday, May 8, 2009
MFA Thesis exhibit round 1
I recently went to see the masters thesis show at the Anderson Gallery. The Anderson gallery is one of my favorites in this area and always seems to show work in a very organized and clean way that I really appreciate. I'm always curious to see art that comes out of VCU and usually leave impressed. I enjoyed several of the artists pieces but I want to talk about Hassan's in particular. I have only recently started to try to understand short art films so I'm sometimes confused or not as sure about what I'm seeing as I am with other mediums. With that being said, this is my inexperienced opinion. The dimly lit intimate space the film was shown in helped create a mood for watching it. I found the whole film to be very menacing. The transformation of shaving was made in to so much more than just shaving by the use of strong sound effects. The sound was eerie and intensified the already nerve wrecking act of shaving. Instead of making guesses about the concept, I can better explain the specific parts that effected me most. When you/he put a stud back in a tongue piercing it was almost hard to watch but I felt like it fit well in to the feeling of the whole piece. One of the most powerful and unsettling parts was when the greenish yellow tint shaving cream was introduced. I kept thinking about the sensation of putting that on and how it must have felt to have that over my mouth or my eyes, and it was not a pleasant feeling. Basically I related most to the work by trying to experience each sensation as I watched. Producing a physical reaction in a viewer, to me, seems like proof of successfully delivering a concept through a piece of art.
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You know for someone who doesn't write too often, you really write well! I find your attempt to understand a new medium interesting- to attempt to understand it at it fundamental nature in relation to yourself. Now, the fact that there are a lot of people who attempt to do this same thing doesn't really concern me. What concerns me is that you wrote it. The fact that you wrote this means that you thought it and that there are things that are rattling around in your head that never seems to come out in any of your classes. You need to change this. I like what you've written about my piece, I've like what you've written in your other too posts. But you need to try harder. If you really want to do this art thing then you must simply try harder.
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