a MACRODON as the "Walking Man"
Tonight Olafur Eliasson spoke at the DMA -it was a good lecture, and the exhibition is pretty rad as well. The artist's primary point of view in the execution of his work is how the human body (the viewer) relates to (sizes up to, or literally measures against) the artwork -in terms of appearance, physical space, scale, distance, and time. The artist mentioned Rodin as a source of idealogical inspiration, specifically Rodin's "Walking Man" (seen below), a figure that transcends space and time, frozen, yet in motion, visually -for the viewers traveling around the sculpture, and conceptually -as the embodiment of a concrete action, indicating a passage of time and space. It is the static quality of the figure, that is most appealing to me, it appears to be in no more than an exaggerated yet powerful contraposto. However, I supposed this is where it would come full circle, as power is to energy is to movement is to space, and obviously time.
Aguste Rodin's "Walking Man"
and below, I have distorted the proportions of the illustration to more closely resemble that of Rodin's sculpture... or not.
here is my favorite piece of the exhibition - DMA gallery guide PDF # "O"
I thought my eyes would bleed science. (this picture does it no justice)
