![]() Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. ![]() Thoreau often wrote about the benefits of living a simple life giving up luxuries in order to quiet the mind. I was finding it so difficult to express my thoughts on this exhibition clearly in this post, and then I got the idea to include a rating system! I think it’ll be so fun to include it in all my other exhibition reviews too!įor this exhibition, I’m going to give it 3 out of 5 stars – good artworks overall, but a lack of a curatorial direction makes the exhibition experience not very enjoyable. American essayist, Henry David Thoreau, was also a poet, philosopher, and a minimalist. ![]() I enjoyed viewing these works individually, but their relation to a curated theme of Minimalism just didn’t come across well to me. While the wall texts link each artwork to a certain concept found in original Minimalist works, I felt that the overall curation lost an established idea of what Minimalism is, or in showing why these works could be considered Minimalist in some way(s). I find the works by living artists in the latter part of the exhibition too distinctive to be compiled under this broad idea of Minimalism. Most of the exhibition was dedicated to showing how Minimalism is still seen in art today, or in the closer contemporary era, but I don’t think this idea came across convincingly. I felt that the good side to this Minimalism exhibition was being able to view many works by great contemporary artists, but problems came up in its overcrowded space and in the theme itself. Throwing Three Balls in the Air (Best of 36 Attempts), 1973. Playing around with Anish Kapoor’s Non-Object (Door)! Its concave surface causes that warped effect as seen here. Anish Kapoor, Non-Object (Door), 2008, stainless steel
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