Exploring World of Perception

According to Merleau-Ponty, perception has an active dimension, in that it is a primordial openness to the life world. When our gaze travels around the space and over what lies before us, at every moment we are forced to adopt a certain point of view. Space is no longer of simultaneous objects capable of being apprehended by an absolute observer who is equally close to them all, without a point of view and a body and without spatial position. Jean Paulhan remarked that, space in which we too are located, it is close to us and we are organically connected.

Paul McCarthy The King, The Island, The Train, The House, The Ship

Some of the most significant sculptures and installations from the America based artist Paul McCarthy are now presented in Hauser & Wirth Gallery in London. He made large kinetic sculpture, combining political figures and pop culture. He create this  mechanical sculptures as an extension of his performance-based art since the early nineties. His  ‘Mad House Jr.’ work  is a small room-like cube with windows and a doorless entry. The cube shakes and spins rapidly whilst a small camera installed inside the cube records all of its movements. This footage is then projected into the space, creating an environment of physical and mental disorientation.

Pipilotti Risk Hayward Gallery 2011

The recent exhibition in Hayward Gallery London, precents videos,sculptures and installations spanning Pipilotti Risk  career from the 1980s to the present day, including two works specially created for the Hayward Gallery.Risk wants the exhibition to provoke feelings of energy, serenity and enlightenment, and hopes that her work makes visitors smile.