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Just went to the Whitney Biennial last Sunday and I found it disappointing compared to the last biennial, which was also disappointing. The theme was "Night and Day," and I just felt a lack of cohesiveness in the work: either the work seemed to ahve been chosen specifically because of the theme or the pieces didn't complement each other productively.
That said, there were some individual pieces I liked. There's Peter Huyghe, who did this film that's hard to describe, but generally explores the relationship between art and its environment.
I kinda like Kori Newkirk, whose sculpture delivers these cool optical effects, but didn't like the way it's situated in all this overburdened identity politics.
The crowd-pleaser is this Francesco Vezzoli piece that's a fake trailer for a decadent movie called "Caligula" by Gore Vidal. It has a bunch of celebrities being campy and is really funny, though pretty easy work for my taste.
It was a dismal Biennial for photography, though I do like Anne Collier and how she bleeds out all the inherent emotive aspects of the medium. She is a former professor though so maybe I'm biased.
And there was this installation that involved making huge holes in the walls of the gallery space, juxtaposed with what looked like hanging wooden branches with ashes surrounding them, but I can't seem to find the artist on the web site.
It was a fun afternoon, but it somehow made me feel better about leaving the field and becoming a writer.  |
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