Days 3-4: October 7-8, 2024 – Bilbao, Spain
We had two days in the charming town of Bilbao, and the highlight for me was the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum. It is one of four Guggenheim museums, the others being in New York, Venice, and Abu Dhabi.
My eye is always drawn to color, and the Guggenheim had plenty of it.
“Jeff Koons tests the limits between popular and elite culture. Tulilps, a bouquet of multicolor balloon flowers, is part of the Caribbean series, which culls from the generic, mass-produced objects associated with birthday parties, holidays, and other festive events for its oversized stainless-steel versions of these objects with brilliant mirror-like finishes.”
This was a fascinating light art installation (not a painting).
“Since in the 1970s up to the present day, McCall has produced his installations around the idea of “solid light,” a concept referring to the volume effects generated by the controlled projection of planes of light in the exhibition space, producing shapes that hypnotically and intangibly move throughout the darkness of the gallery.”
Metal sculpture from discarded liquor bottle tops. The next two pictures are close-ups of the installation.
This post is especially for my art-loving friend Pam M.
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