Monday, December 1, 2014

Exhibition Curatorial Statement and Decided Information

Data
Name: Ryan Cook
Exhibition Name: “Anthropomorphic Equilibrium”
Type: Gallery of arts from visual artists
Date: December 2014

Theme
The central theme that I decided would be Human Environment (but not limited to only people and nature).

Anthropy

Humans need to have fantasies to be human.”
Humankind cannot gain something without giving something in return in equal value.”

3 Artists (2 from ART 21 / Textbook, 1 of your own choosing)
Sally Mann (from ART 21)
Mark Dion (also available in ART 21)
Yoshitaka Amano (custom choice)

Curatorial Statement
The exhibition of Anthropomorphic Equilibrium is the place for works of art that invokes the general theme of human environment made by selected few artists of the host's choice. In the gallery, the mediums of art are diverse but centralize under the involvement of natural environments and people (including creatures with human characteristics). In the works, both realistic and low-fantasy subject matters are involved. The works are each and every different in form and technique process, but the underlying theme is approximately the same. The anthropological focus of human kind is ever present here, where areas made by the environments and the people involved play a vital role. It's important to realize the key to survival, appreciation, and immersion upon complex reasons that interactive life forms make, and that's mainly what the exhibition's motive is for.

Sally Mann is a photographer that manages with arduous but authentic techniques about mostly colorless portraits of people and the outdoor setting. Her use of lighting and coloring choices represent a historical and haunting aura that justifies the notion of life and death. Mark Dion loosely combines science and art as one in an intelligent formation focusing on the dominant ideologies about the very nature of humanity, history, knowledge, and the natural world. His works are physical installments and made objects that represent those sub-themes, which are artifact-like. Yoshitaka Amano is a Japanese painter on both original (general) and for video game artworks. Using complex but elegant techniques with watercolor, his visual works are of wisp and wonder. Most of his works rely on dream-like coloring, peculiar fantasy environments, and creative scenarios among character designs and still-picture interactions.


With all the artist's works in place, the significant factor of human nature and its environment to be linked by interaction and acts of nature are ever-present in both entertainment and the real world itself. More importantly, it helps to get a clear understanding even in an artistic, creative, and enjoyable sense in order to appreciate and accept the very true messages of reality even in films, shows, games, and books. Enjoy your observation to the works, as everything is bounded, and everyone is connected.

LINKS OF THEIR WORKS:
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sally-mann
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mark-dion
http://amano-artwork.tumblr.com/



Images of artworks from each artist (visual art examples)

A work from Sally Mann

A work from Mark Dion


A work from Yoshitaka Amano

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