The empty Museum

For the past three decades, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have specialised in making "total installations", many of which reimagine life in the former Soviet Union with a dark sense of absurdity. Their 2004 installation, The Empty Museum, replicates a room in a classical gallery, featuring a Bach soundtrack and deep red walls that are dramatically spot-lit. But where we might expect to find paintings on the walls, there are only pools of light. What has happened to the art? Haunted by absence, the Kabakovs' eerily theatrical installation invites us to write our own script.

                                     Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's "The Empty Museum," 2004. Photograph: Hermann Feldhaus

Simplified Forms, Geometrical and Highly Hefined

The Bauhaus school a.k.a the house of construction was created by Walter Crupius in Germany form 1919 to 1933. In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architectural department during the first years of its existence. Nonetheless, it was founded with the idea of creating a 'total' work of art in which all arts, including architecture would eventually come together.
The characteristic Bauhaus style was simplified forms, geometrical and highly refined.

The Bauhaus had a major impact on art and architecture trends in Western Europe, the United States, Canada and Israel in the decades following its demise, as many of the artists involved fled, or were exiled, by the Nazi regime.

Josef Albers was a painter, poet, sculptor, art theorist, and an educator. Through his teachings he introduced a generation of American artists to the European modernist concepts of the Bauhaus.

His experimentation with color interaction and geometric shapes transformed the modern art scene,offering an alternative to Abstract Expressionist, and inspiring movements such as Geometric Abstraction, color field painting, and Op Art.

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.

Introduction: Installation Art

         One of the major developments of recent art history, installation art came to prominence in the early 1990s as a mode of art production centered on the creation of an immersive physical experience. Looking back to the pioneering Happenings of the 1950s, as well as Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists like Richard Serra, who highlighted bodily awareness through sculptural interventions, artists in the 1990s expanded the work of art into a multimedia environment of installations.

Kant's theory about space

       Immanuel Kant is an 18th century German philosopher whose work initated dramatic changes in the fields of epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and teleology. He developed a theory of knowledge  in which knowledge about space can be both a priori and synthetic      

      According to Kant, knowledge about space is synthetic, in that statements about space are not simply true by virtue of the meaning of the words in the statement. In his work, Kant rejected the view that space must be either a substance or relation. Instead he came to the conclusion that space and time are not discovered by humans to be objective features of the world, but are part of an unavoidable systematic framework for organizing our experiences.