BRUCENNIAL 2010: Miseducation
"People are live entities and they need to have some moments where they recognize this liveliness of their existence."
-Francesco Bonami
The BRUCENNIAL has evolved into BHQF's signature public program, as well as the most important survey of contemporary art in the world.
Through simple blocks of color, Sophy Naess of Cooper Union establishes a powerful narrative. Changing the colors and the compositions of simple shapes provides high emotional impact.
"You're a new person." (Seen below)
Broken down cardboard boxes resting on garbage bags of air move up and down while a 'breathing' sound plays from the amplifier. I couldn't stop staring, it's almost as if you are looking down at a struggling being.
Ordinary objects when composed properly are intriguing... and maybe even more fascinating when they aren't. The brain will try to establish order, and the connecting strings during that process create a statement, which I find the most interesting of all.
WILL I GROW UP TO PAINT A SQUARE?
"I made a painting of a square. D'you notice it? Is it way too spare? Does it make you a little more aware..."
"Thinking toward an anonymous, autonomous multiplied communication program (virus).? Any visual system created must be likewise destroyed in the same stroke - parallel or multiplied on top: image eating type, type eating image, type eating type, messages contradicted by misinformation, information contracted by misfired slogans - broken, ripped off, stopped short. No element of the system stands alone to communicate te (mistake) the whole - every element of the system stands alone to communicate the hole, no new theories, no Timothy Leary. No design, nothing benign. Only cold hard resign. Meeting cannots in skinboats, killing them." (seen above on right)
I discovered this because I walk by every morning on the way to my internship. It touched me unlike any other exhibition I've ever seen.
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