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Tuesday, October 09, 2018
10 powerful works of art you shouldn't miss at the 57th Carnegie International
www.nextpittsburgh.com: The Carnegie International opens at the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) on Oct. 13, bringing stunning works by artists from around the globe to Pittsburgh. The show is years in the making and visitors will find works in a huge range of styles and media.
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Vanessa Ramon
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I am surprised that I haven't heard about the International's exhibit before reading this article. I was interested in reading about the spotlighted pieces in the article but I also wanted to learn more about the purpose or the motivation behind the collection of this exhibit. All of the art mentioned seems to form a collection of diverse messages and diverse ways of creating those messages. I am most interested in catching a glimpse of the 8 hour video and taking a piece of art work home with me. The end of the article mentioned that many of the artists took many trips to Pittsburgh while the process of making their pieces and were inspired to make pieces based on the city itself. I think that this is the coolest part of the exhibit because it shows how people from around the world interpret Pittsburgh and what that means. Even though this is an exhibit full of international voices, getting to see the differences between interpretations of the same city sounds so interesting.
I am so excited to go to this. Before I came to Pittsburgh, I knew about Carnegie International and I have been looking forward to going ever since I got here. This article made me even more excited. I think it is amazing that artists from all over the world come and display their art altogether. Something I love about all of the pieces that they talked about in this article is that there are so many of them that use recycled and reused materials to make their pieces and there are also so many that use materials or have a concept that really shows Pittsburgh and the culture and art here. I am especially excited to see the Pittsburgh is everywhere piece because it really does seem like it encapsulates the city in one work of art, and being new to the city I think seeing this exhibit will make me more excited to be living here and also maybe I’ll learn a little more about the city.
I saw this article a few days ago, but wanted to save reading it until I went to the Carnegie International myself so I could compare the works that I thought stood out to the list in the article. I went to the exhibition yesterday, and though I easily spent three hours there, I realized that I had probably seen only three-quarters of the works on display. I always love international art exhibitions and fairs because they raise issues that we are totally oblivious to here. A piece that I found particularly impactful “Good Light, Good Air” by IM Heung-soon, a South Korean writer who is now experimenting in more mediums to communicate her stories. As a two screen, forty minute documentary-style video that must be watched behind heavy black curtains, I understand that it’s certainly not the most eye-catching piece in the exhibition (especially among the neon lights and moving parts that other galleries housed). However, it carried such tremendous weight and was done so cleanly, respectfully, and elegantly that I truly hoped that it would make this list of “powerful works of art you shouldn’t miss.” Instead, at least three of the works described are massive so that you physically cannot miss them if you enter the museum, and I found it challenging to call many of the others “powerful” on any meaningful level. Of course this is my personal opinion and art is subjective, but I hoped to see a more unpredictable list of pieces and artists acknowledged for an exhibition as significant and expansive as the Carnegie International.
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I am surprised that I haven't heard about the International's exhibit before reading this article. I was interested in reading about the spotlighted pieces in the article but I also wanted to learn more about the purpose or the motivation behind the collection of this exhibit. All of the art mentioned seems to form a collection of diverse messages and diverse ways of creating those messages. I am most interested in catching a glimpse of the 8 hour video and taking a piece of art work home with me.
The end of the article mentioned that many of the artists took many trips to Pittsburgh while the process of making their pieces and were inspired to make pieces based on the city itself. I think that this is the coolest part of the exhibit because it shows how people from around the world interpret Pittsburgh and what that means. Even though this is an exhibit full of international voices, getting to see the differences between interpretations of the same city sounds so interesting.
I am so excited to go to this. Before I came to Pittsburgh, I knew about Carnegie International and I have been looking forward to going ever since I got here. This article made me even more excited. I think it is amazing that artists from all over the world come and display their art altogether. Something I love about all of the pieces that they talked about in this article is that there are so many of them that use recycled and reused materials to make their pieces and there are also so many that use materials or have a concept that really shows Pittsburgh and the culture and art here. I am especially excited to see the Pittsburgh is everywhere piece because it really does seem like it encapsulates the city in one work of art, and being new to the city I think seeing this exhibit will make me more excited to be living here and also maybe I’ll learn a little more about the city.
I saw this article a few days ago, but wanted to save reading it until I went to the Carnegie International myself so I could compare the works that I thought stood out to the list in the article. I went to the exhibition yesterday, and though I easily spent three hours there, I realized that I had probably seen only three-quarters of the works on display. I always love international art exhibitions and fairs because they raise issues that we are totally oblivious to here. A piece that I found particularly impactful “Good Light, Good Air” by IM Heung-soon, a South Korean writer who is now experimenting in more mediums to communicate her stories. As a two screen, forty minute documentary-style video that must be watched behind heavy black curtains, I understand that it’s certainly not the most eye-catching piece in the exhibition (especially among the neon lights and moving parts that other galleries housed). However, it carried such tremendous weight and was done so cleanly, respectfully, and elegantly that I truly hoped that it would make this list of “powerful works of art you shouldn’t miss.” Instead, at least three of the works described are massive so that you physically cannot miss them if you enter the museum, and I found it challenging to call many of the others “powerful” on any meaningful level. Of course this is my personal opinion and art is subjective, but I hoped to see a more unpredictable list of pieces and artists acknowledged for an exhibition as significant and expansive as the Carnegie International.
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