- 22 Apr 2021 10:03
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Came across this artist's works recently and I must say I have mixed feelings about it.
There is a book which collects 100 of these images of his and markets it as showing how architecture interacts with its environment. But how can we truly know how the architecture is interacting with the environment if we cannot see the style of the architecture itself? Is it simply the mass of architecture that interacts with the environment or is there more to it than that?
A part of me feels that if that was the intention, would it not be better presented as diptychs, where on one half of the screen we see the building there, and on the other side we see the building removed, yet we can also see the totality of the environment behind it not just a silhouette of white emptiness(what it would look like if the building had never been there to begin with)?
I would like to assume that the artist concocted this thought-provoking idea with pure intention, but it becomes apparent to me that he may possibly have been seeking for novelty, as he entirely negates the efficacy by transferring the form into the media realm, by images such as this proving that he may have missed the point of his own art;
There is a book which collects 100 of these images of his and markets it as showing how architecture interacts with its environment. But how can we truly know how the architecture is interacting with the environment if we cannot see the style of the architecture itself? Is it simply the mass of architecture that interacts with the environment or is there more to it than that?
A part of me feels that if that was the intention, would it not be better presented as diptychs, where on one half of the screen we see the building there, and on the other side we see the building removed, yet we can also see the totality of the environment behind it not just a silhouette of white emptiness(what it would look like if the building had never been there to begin with)?
I would like to assume that the artist concocted this thought-provoking idea with pure intention, but it becomes apparent to me that he may possibly have been seeking for novelty, as he entirely negates the efficacy by transferring the form into the media realm, by images such as this proving that he may have missed the point of his own art;
Last edited by froggo on 22 Apr 2021 10:18, edited 2 times in total.