"Dynamo" at the Grand Palais
Jun 13, 2013 12:15:35 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jun 13, 2013 12:15:35 GMT
The Grand Palais in Paris is currently holding a very interesting exhibition of art forms that can usually only be seen in an odd corner of modern art museums and never in great quantity. They go by various names, but one of the most common is "kinetic art" because many of them are artworks in movement. There is also neon art, optical illusions... they are all designed to surprise and usually to delight. In any case, children absolutely adore exhibitions like this, even when their parents become overwhelmed.
The English language brochure for the exhibit, which is called Dynamo, uses the subtitle "a century of light and movement in art 1913-2013." I had been wanting to go for some time, but there are often huge waiting lines for things at the Grand Palais, so I held off for awhile. But this week I finally went, and there was no waiting at all to get in. Yay!
It's starts off with flashy stuff to catch your eye. For example, this little room of light bulbs seemed to be in danger of setting off epileptic seizures even in people without epilepsy. This sort of installation refuses to allow you to take a meaningful photograph because it all goes so fast -- in fact this is the only one that I kept of about half a dozen attempts, and it still shows nothing. Don't worry -- you can see it in my video at the end.
Other items were calmer, and the colour blue is supposed to calm you anyway.
There were not too many people, but it would have been unpleasant in a crowd.
Not everything was electric.
There were quite a few items that used moving shadows for effect.
Remember the 1970's?
This sort of thing was very popular 30-40 years ago.
You really need to see some of this stuff moving. Yes, yes, the video.... we'll get to it.
I skipped this installation. There was a 45 minute wait because only 5 people were allowed to go in at a time.
The English language brochure for the exhibit, which is called Dynamo, uses the subtitle "a century of light and movement in art 1913-2013." I had been wanting to go for some time, but there are often huge waiting lines for things at the Grand Palais, so I held off for awhile. But this week I finally went, and there was no waiting at all to get in. Yay!
It's starts off with flashy stuff to catch your eye. For example, this little room of light bulbs seemed to be in danger of setting off epileptic seizures even in people without epilepsy. This sort of installation refuses to allow you to take a meaningful photograph because it all goes so fast -- in fact this is the only one that I kept of about half a dozen attempts, and it still shows nothing. Don't worry -- you can see it in my video at the end.
Other items were calmer, and the colour blue is supposed to calm you anyway.
There were not too many people, but it would have been unpleasant in a crowd.
Not everything was electric.
There were quite a few items that used moving shadows for effect.
Remember the 1970's?
This sort of thing was very popular 30-40 years ago.
You really need to see some of this stuff moving. Yes, yes, the video.... we'll get to it.
I skipped this installation. There was a 45 minute wait because only 5 people were allowed to go in at a time.
