Last week I went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I haven't been for a while so I was looking forward to it but wasn't particularly excited about the Juame Plensa exhbition that was on. How wrong I was. It was great and I particularly enjoyed the way he used text.
This was a metal curtain of text that you were able to walk through and touch. The metal letters clanged together. It also cast shadows of letters on the wall and floor of the gallery so you were surrounded by text. To me this was a joy!
In some pieces the text was used to create objects, which in much of the work was the human form.
I particularly like this piece. The text was punched in to metal and twisted throughout the figures. Although it is a very different technique to any I use it actually reminded me of my own sketchbook pages and the way I like to incorporate text so it is integral to the whole page, often winding through the imagery.
I'm so glad I went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This was definitely an exhibition worth seeing and gave me so many ideas about the future of text within my work.
No comments:
Post a Comment