Last post about MFA Boston. I promise.
How fabulous is this mural? Wouldn’t it make a stunning focal point entrance or even backdrop to a modern, chic soiree?
“RSVP: Jim Lambie” is a brand new installation at the museum. He is a Scottish artist who specializes in vibrant, eye-popping installation art. At age 43, he was short-listed for Great Britain’s Turner Prize in 2005, and has made taped installations since 1999. They sport wild designs that echo the architecture of the spaces they occupy.
And just what are we looking at here exactly? “They’re a large graphic of the grooves in a vinyl record” he says.
Do you even believe he creates background this with tape? Amazing.
Over that Op-Art-style backdrop, Lambie mounted sculptures made of chairs sliced in half and assembled into many-legged forms, painted gaudy colors and hung with mirrored handbags.
He found the chairs in used furniture stores and junk shops around Glasgow. “I’ve always used readymade material,” he says. “The familiarity is an entrance for people. The chair constructions are like little conversations, fractured.”
The wall his installation occupies was always a blank space that nobody took much note of. Now it has caught the eyes of museum visitors, made them pause, sparked conversations. “I feel that the space separates the gallery and the museum’s entrance, which is slightly dead,” he says. “It’s interesting to activate it, and pull both sides of the museum together.”
I thought I died and went to Baccarat’s Cristal Room heaven when I saw this piece just outside the Avedon Fashion Exhibit.
It is a fantastic, brilliant display of about a dozen marvelous mercury glass vessels, of every shape and size, with an infinity mirror design behind it.
J’adore!
Pure mercury fantasy…my dreams at night have come true into an art installation.
With the black and white and chairs going on in the background – YUM.
Do you see the similarity to Paris’ Baccarat Flagship/Cristal Room?
Next stop, Avedon. I am sure you too have been reading about it in every single magazine…
Richard Avedon was one of the greatest image-makers of the twentieth century. He revolutionized fashion photography with his imaginative, spirited portrayals of the “good life” showing beautiful women wearing extraordinary clothes in irresistible settings, as well as memorable portrayals that are both elegant and reserved.
The upbeat spirit and innovative design of his compositions caught the eye of editors and art directors at Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue—the primary magazines for which he worked—while his vision of the modern American woman, one of wit, individuality, and fast-lane glamour, captivated the public.
His enormous success defined the role of the high-profile fashion photographer that we know today, and many of his images have become icons of photographic history.
Avedon’s career as a fashion photographer is displayed decade by decade in this exceptional traveling exhibition from the International Center of Photography in New York, the first comprehensive survey of Avedon’s fashion photography since 1978.
Cheers to everything this season…from chairs to sparkling tabletops to fashion forward festive couture.
Debi Lilly, aperfectevent.com
