Writing Assignment after Visiting Exhibition
A Fantastic Journey is known as the first survey based in United States specifically in Brooklyn. Wangechi Mutu is the artists behind the exhibition which entailed more than fifty pieces which include the Artist’s signature, video works, sketchbook drawings, large-scale collages, sculptural installations and a site specific wall drawing. Wangechi Mutu was born in Nairobi; Kenya was able to gather as well as combining materials such as magazines cutouts, painted imagery and sculpture. This portrays her creativity and innovative way of combining materials from different sources to make an extinguish.
Wangechi Mutu works of exhibition play a vital role as it scrutinize diverse fields such as international politics, African traditions, pornography, science fiction and fashion industry. The issues introduced on the exhibition explore war, colonialism, race, gender and global consumption as well as eroticization of the female body. Most of her works are known for spectacular, provocative and stimulating collages which depict female figures, human part, animal, plant and machine. The exhibition portrays her connection of life to the ecosystem through video and sculptural installations. Through her works, Mutu is able to encourage and ever to persuade her audiences to regard mythological worlds as fields for psychological, cultural and even socio-political transformation and exploration. This implies that the exhibition’s main purpose is to enable people open up their eyes, minds and souls to issues that are affecting them and those surrounding them. Therefore, the society should try its best to make it possible and also overlook issues surrounding psychological, cultural and socio-political exploration as well as its transformation. Her exhibition works display how the politics have transformed and grown to a level which is admirable. People should love and even learn on how such artistic works educate the society.
Isa Genzken's exhibition in MOMA museum
Isa Genzeken is regarded as one the best, influential, and even outstanding female artists over the years, precisely past 30 years. Genzeken’s exhibition work is considered as part of the artistic displays which existed in the mid 1970s and was established in the American Museum. Most of her works have ruled for the past 40 years and includes photographs, collages, artist’s books, paintings and even public sculptures. It is was later discovered that Isa Genzeken works were popular in New York art audience despite the fact that many audience came to recognize her recently. In order to recognize her efforts in the artistic field, approximately 150 pieces of her exhibition works are now being viewed in United States of America.
Isa Genzeken has introduced many sculptures which is ranging from smaller, diorama-like exhibition works to room-filling exhibition installations. Most of her works usually reflect on how people in the society relate especially on fields of socio-political. Many audiences love the language, and creativity involved in her pieces of objects as she portrays high level of professionalism in expressing her views on issues affecting the society. In United States museums, her assemblage or collections are displayed which introduce her recent exhibition are portrayed to signify her contributions in the artistic field. Isa Genzeken motive is to inspire and even the motivate the new generation in loving arts as it express an artistic her ideas as well as radical inventiveness and beliefs in an effective manner.
Works Cited
Sackler, Elizabeth. Exhibitions: Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey. Brooklyn Museum. 2013
October 11. Web. 9 December 2013. Accessed from <http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/wangechi_mutu/>
Robert Preston. Isa Genzken: Retrospective 2013 November 23 Web. 9 December 2013.
Accessed from< http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1345>
