Yesterday I went to visit a Modern Art Museum close to where I live. I’ve heard a lot about it in the past and my art teacher from school always wanted us to go but I never wanted to because I haven’t been the biggest fan of modern art so far, but after reading about more of it during the projects I felt like it was a good time to break this cycle of not going to modern art museums and I went. There were three different exhibitions in the museum and it was definitely an interesting experience. I knew that the architecture of the building would be a very interesting thing to look at in itself without having seen any of the exhibits inside. And it was just like that. The entrance was very impressive and the whole building had a great dynamic.
The roof was build in different shapes and forms flowing out of the building and it didn’t only make the outside much more engaging but the inside with most of the light entering through windows in the roof.
Image from http://www.aknw.de/presse/downloads/tag-der-architektur2009/bilder-gross/Herford_1331_MARTa.jpg (Accessed 9 Jan 2012)
The first exhibition was called “Personal map (to be continued)...” by Nezaket Ekici and it consisted of different installations, a lot of them were video installations with music that the visitor could listen to, photographs and material that played a role in making her art as well as one piece of actual “live” art. While I was looking at her art I came up with a few questions and there are a few things that I really wonder about. Her art involved lots of physical action e.g. being completely dressed in white and then lighting candles that are stuck to a plate on the ceiling and the standing underneath it waiting for the hot wax to drop on her body – I am not sure what that specific art piece was trying to express and I read about it in the book that was supposed to explain the reasons for this art piece but unfortunately I couldn’t figure out why she did it – and to be quite honest to me it looked more like self destructive behaviour and if that is what makes modern art modern art then people shouldn’t pay for going to art museum and rather join volunteering work at a psychiatric institution and they would probably see as much self destructive behaviour as I felt I have seen in the exhibits yesterday.
Maybe it’s only modern art that is displayed in Germany that is so stereotypical for what I think about modern art as it was the main influence about modern art that I had in the past so far – said this – I still wonder why modern art seems to need to be disgusting, shocking and disturbing to be recognised and exhibited. Everybody is complaining about the world and how “ugly” and destructive it became and I wonder why art doesn’t want to be opposite to that statement and why artists don’t just create something more light-hearted and more positive – I am not saying that all modern art has to be depressing but from what I’ve experienced it is pretty much just like that. And about some works of art I wonder who would really like looking at it – do the artists from today even work from their heart or if the art is really a mirror to their soul – are they all just depressed black holes in a big universe?
People who are visiting modern art museum in Germany also seem to follow some kind of stereotypical role model – the majority of these people is dressed in black, flat shoes, short hair, colourful reading glasses, the same facial expression trying to force an interesting look on their face. I have noticed all these tiny details and I wonder if that is a resemblance of the people the artists wants to reach out to with his or her work. Why do these people resonate with this kind of modern art?
I really hope that not all modern art is like this and that there is more to this generation of artists because I think what the world needs is not more depressing art and black holes in the universe we rather need positive feelings expressed and more stars added to the universe and the night sky.
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