Just this past April I found myself in Edinburgh, Scotland gazing past the verdure of the old volcano and incessant rain of the everyday.
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| An affiche for an August Sander collection of photographs exhibiting a portrait of the German people caught my eye. |
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| Serpentine shaped mound designed by Charles Jencks. |
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| The façade flashed me back to Berlin, 2008 where I saw the Altes Museum lit up with 'ALL ART HAS BEEN CONTEMPORARY' |
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| A peak into Eduard Paolozzi's studio... |
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art was exhibiting 18 works by the now house-hold name American artist Jeff Koons. O' how he would have loved to be the first to manipulate the American Flag! Put those all-seeing pyramids in the place of fifty threaded stars! An over-actively scheming part of me wishes that he could have further patronized his Bavarian hired woodcarvers by giving them Home Depot sponsorships. Alas, as I teetered through vanilla-shell rooms an eerie sense of nostalgia and adoration came over me. I just wished that he had put more toys into his toy box. Koon's 'Caterpillar Chains' from the Popeye Series (inflatable toys meet Iron Man, by Iron Man I mean they 'get hard') caused me to get that epiphany stirring early feeling of conceptualism...then I was reminded of my nieces and either giggled or sighed. Essentially, what do I gather from this experience? Screaming loudly in a gallery yields the applause of children.
Jeff Koons will be showing at The Dean gallery through July 3, 2011.
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