TrulyGrace

Haircut, Walking, the 2013/4 Carnegie International, and Indian Food!

I went to Nancy's neighborhood to get my hair cut by one of my favorite hairdressers.  Nancy and I met up, we went to a bead shop where I met Connie and Bertha.  I designed and fashioned a Swarovski emerald crystal bracelet, which Connie helped me to do.  We then walked to an art supply store, then had a snack at Target.  We headed to Oakland for the 2013 Carnegie International.

We started on the first floor in the Hall of Architecture, passed through the miniatures gallery to the Hall of Sculpture, then took the elevator, which is by the Grand Staircase, up to the second floor.  We looked at some of the art on the Balcony of the Hall of Sculpture as we headed to the Heinz Architectural Center, which contained the Playground Project.  We exited the Heinz Galleries to see the CI artwork in the "Modern and Contemporary Collection" of the Scaife Galleries on the second floor.  We stopped at about Gallery 7 on Floor 2, heading for the lone exhibit from the CI in the Botany Hall:  We took the Grand Staircase elevator to 3, headed for Botany Hall via the Bird Cases, took the elevator from the Jurassic Overlook down to floor 2 in the Museum of Natural History (by Discovery Basecamp), and went to Botany Hall.  We enjoyed the Botany exhibits and the artwork there, then headed to level 1 via the Basecamp elevator, through the breezeway that passes the Sculpture Court, up the "unusual" steps to level 2 and the Heinz Galleries, where there were more CI exhibits, including one on "James Bond."
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The Hall of Architecture featured Gabriel Sierra.

The Hall of Sculpture featured Pedro Reyes, with a circle of self-playing instruments called "Disarm;"  and
the Bidoun Library, a collection of Mid-East magazines, etc.

The Grand Staicase area on level 2 contains a work by Tobias Madison (with Flavio Merlo), an installation created and co-produced with an afterschool class from the Wilikinsburg neighborhood of Pittsburgh.

On the Hall of Sculpture Balcony were sculptures/figures by Nicole Eisenman.  I took a photograph of one, looks like a person using his cell phone.  This sculpture, surrounded by the relic classical statues, is a modern tongue-in-cheek take on the classical work.

In the Heinz Architectural Center was the Playground Project...we saw video-based work by Ei Arakawa/Henningn Bohl, then visited the work by Tezuka Architects of Tokyo, which was the "playroom" as our favorite docent indicated.

We visited the Tea Tent (my first visit), where there was one visitor and a staff member who prepared tea.  There was a green mint tea and a fuller-bodied nut tea with coconut.  We met two art student/ recent graduate of Pittsburgh Art Institute, and two staff members.  Art was a social exchange was an experience in Gallery 16.  The artist responsible for all this relaxing fun in a Buddhist-monk orange tent is Rirkrit Tiravanija.

As we headed through the Scaife Galleries, Nancy wanted to go to the CI exhibit in Botany Hall.  We decided to go to Botany Hall.  As we entered, there was only one exhibit in the far corner, and we enjoyed it on Dubuffet?  and explored the botany of SW Pennsylvania's herbal plants.  Also enjoyed smelling the scents in the bottles.

Back to Floor 2 and the Heinz Galleries, including blocks of confetti (~1 X 1 meter square) by Lara Favaretto, Taryn Simon (the James Bond series of photographs), and GUO Fengyi, who produced energetic, multicolored curves on paper rolls through her spiritual, martial arts, and meditative practice.  The two black and white images, which were smaller than the color works, were about a dragon (looked like intestines) and an emperor.  We stopped for a few minutes in the two gift shops before departing for the sunny breezy day outside.

posted by Grace @ 3/15/2014 06:13:00 PM