ArtRock, a “fourteen day museum” set up at Rockefeller Center, celebrates its second year until May 20. Cade and I went to see the progressive, free, contemporary art yesterday after he got off work.
Many of the exhibits elicited “huh’s?” and “ooo…kay’s,” while the anti-genital mutilation and pro-soybean messages were lost in a bunch of fabric, acrylic, and chains.
Let’s go on a tour!
I most liked the Great View collection by artist Karin Weiner. It consists of collages and a community of elaborate birdhouses. It’s supposed to represent the myth of utopian communities and increasing fears of domestic threats and natural disasters. For Cade and I, though, it represented a distant dream: affordable housing of our very own.
Cade and I would move into one of the rent-stabilized birdhouses if we got the chance (and were infinitely smaller). I’m hoping to live in something traditional with lots of storage space like this:
This is not a toddler possessed by Satan. It’s a kinetic statue that beats its head against the wall, revealing a head-shaped hole and leaving plaster on the floor. Its message, according to artist Kristof Kintera, is, “Revolution is not possible. Forget it.” Yeah, supposedly it’s as pointless as get this, banging your head into a wall.
Finally something overtly Gothic and ornamental you can’t buy at Hot Topic. All snark aside, I liked this.
One of two viewing scopes by Alyson Shotz. They’re part telescope, part kaleidoscope.
Gabriel Delponte’s Chorus combines sculptural wall pieces and an abstract mural. I love the colors.
