What happens next? The destruction of the precious, the loss of the hopeful...these kinds of works that undo themselves, I think are very successful in undermining our arrogant sense of permanence...so what is next after we loose the feeling of living forever? Maybe, it is our only chance at really living...without a net and without supports...
A painting that became a sculpture, beyond the conceptual underpinnings of the transformation...there exists a really good work of art...the way the piece struggles to hang off the wall, the color scheme, inclusive of the burnt and twisted areas...they are harmonious in a defiant context...there is also interesting shadows created by the twisted form...adding to the mood and success of the piece...
Valerie Hegarty does a great job formally, tieing all the elements together, this piece, Niagara Falls, takes a representational painting and breaks it down into its most simplistic, formal elements...the viewer transitions out of the representational picture plane and into the three-dimensional world...a world free and uncertain...
This painting/3d piece works well in reproduction. Not sure I would be convinced of it's marits in the round/semi-circle.
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