MoMAfied

An exhausting trip to the MoMA on a Sunday afternoon.

Unfortunately, we decided to go on a weekend so the place was packed.
Fortunately, we had a members pass, so we could cut lines.

Yay for members pass.

The museum itself was host to a few pretty swell exhibitions. Including the installation by Pipilotti Rist Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)

This installation took up a large area of the museum, three large walls projected onto by strange cone-like bits of the wall. The video of a flowery field was as close to the sun as the busy Moma-ites of New York got on that cloudy day. Many people could be seen falling asleep in the room while others watched such activities from the various levels. It was rather warm in the gallery, which only reinforced the relationship between the environment and the body.

MoMA trip also means seeing a lot of the greats. As an art student, there are only so many books you can read on such pieces, so to see them in the flesh is a big deal. I'm sure some of you can relate...

My favourite part though, was most definately the collaboration with Vik Muniz resulting in the show Rebus. Starting with Fischli/Weiss' Der Lauf Der Dinge then continuing throughout the space in a sequential order, where the last work relationally reflects upon the work you will see next and the work before it. Excitement for the Baldessari. Love for the Gordon Matta-Clark as well.

There was also a Marlene Dumas show, quite a fair bit of photography, a Van Gogh and a Joan Miro exhibition (none of which I could photograph) which I found interesting due to the insight shown into the process of both Van Gogh and Miro's painting (through collage etc). Stuff I did not know...

After trekking all the way to New York, I don't even get to see the legendary Dali...

Balls.

MoMA also equals rude, pushy people. It also equals people getting into your photo shots. An aesthetic which i kind of like to a degree, makes the artwork seem less sterile...no?

Emerging four or so hours later, rather dazed, faint and art-xhausted, we ended up wandering the streets of New York for food very silently. MoMA does that to you.

- Agnes