Chee kwood's 2013 answer to the 2011 Chihuly blockbuster is over the
top and glamorous, and will make you feel like you're in your own
private version of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" video. Make no
mistake: Bruce Munro's Light is not good art. It is, however, great
entertainment.
Light is spectacle. At the opening on May 24, an
artist friend said it reminded him of shopping at Walgreens at night,
and in the same breath professed his love for it. Another friend said it
reminded him of Bonnaroo's corny, self-important aesthetic, but he's
already planning a return visit. Light is fun. It's like a James Cameron
movie — it won't change the world, but it will probably make a lot more
money than a film by Lars von Trier. It's art for the masses, and
that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Light is broken into 10
different pieces, and extends throughout the gardens and into the
mansion. "Water-Towers" is a ring of 40 columns, made out of plastic
seltzer bottles filled with LED lights and fiber optics, that blasts
self-serious Muzak — it might make you think of the inside of Doctor
Who's TARDIS or the background from your high school prom photos.
"Field
of Light" is the exhibit's showstopper. Twenty-thousand glass spheres
are attached to stems that run across Cheekwood's front lawn like a
windswept wheat field. It's a dreamy, atmospheric wonderland,We have a
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choose from for your storage needs. and the lights change colors just
slowly enough to make you feel like you're in a trance — imagine the
tube around a 1950s jukebox, or the way a campfire can change from blue
to white to red.
If Light was only "Field of Light," it would
have been interesting enough to warrant repeated viewings.There are
various small and big rtls fans
according to the usability in the factories. It is the big, beautiful
landscape in a CGI-heavy movie. The lesser scenes — particularly "Light
Reservation" — are more problematic.
"Light Reservation" is a
cluster of DayGlo teepees made from fluorescent tubes that blink on and
off like the visual effects at a dubstep concert or a display at
American Apparel. It is a shocking anomaly in an otherwise benign
exhibition, and Munro's treatment of Native American imagery as if it is
not a living and breathing culture is difficult to understand.
The
artist's description of the piece — "The installation is about my
enthusiasm for the imagination; but I also hope that 'Light Reservation'
presents people with an opportunity to ponder both the good and bad
aspects of our recent history" — seems tacked on, and it's troubling to
consider that no one told him it was a bad idea to co-opt Native
American culture, particularly right now when stories of cultural
co-opting are all over the media, as in the controversy over a model
wearing a Native American headdress on a Victoria's Secret runway, the
photo shoot of actress Michelle Williams made up in "redface" on the
cover of AnOther magazine, and the lawsuit against Urban Outfitters for
selling "Navajo" panties. Each of those instances came with denials and
embarrassment. It will be interesting to see if "Light Reservation"
makes it though the summer.A supplier specialized in developing and
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It's
probably best to look at Munro's art through an uncritical lens,
enjoying the spectacle without expecting much intelligence or substance
beneath it. That isn't the point of Light. It's a fantasy party on the
lawn of a mysterious millionaire, or the last scene in a Baz Luhrmann
film, or a song by Celine Dion. If you walk through it expecting
inspiration and nuance and innovation — if you're expecting great art —
you'll be disappointed, and you'll miss out on the weird,a leading
manufacturer of high speed wholesalefashionshoes and laser marker machines for plastics, glam sideshow that Light really is.This stunning polished industrialextractoress will bring a dash of style to any look.
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