July 2010
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Anthony Gormley: Breathing Room
Last summer I went to see Anthony Gormley’s ‘Breathing Room’ at the White Cube. I was intrigued by how its luminescent structure made me question my perception of the space and be more apprehensive when moving though the piece. Perceptual cues of depth and perspective were lost and I became more aware of the body and its role in perception. This lead me to research into phenomenological theories...
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Richard Serra
In his installation, Circuit, Richard Serra uses methods of restriction to embody the viewer. The room is reconfigured by the steel sheets into 4 sections. When one enters the space, our visual understanding of this is restricted. We only witness the steel narrowing the space towards the opposite side of the room. We are unaware of the spatial nature of the opposite side of the room until we pass...
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Perceiving landscape, 'Cezanne's Doubt' and Zen...
The idea of an ‘emerging landscape’ is discussed by Merlaue-Ponty in his critique of the painter Cezanne, ‘Cezannes Doubt’, I highly reccomend reading this if you are interested in Cezanne or phenomenology theory and its relation to art and perception. Ponty believes that ‘Cezanne captures the essence of perception, the state of apprehending a landscape as it emerges from...
