Field trip to De Pont in Tilburg
I went on another outing Thursday, with a group of students on my course. We traveled by coach to Tilburg, in the Netherlands, to see a student Master exhibition and the De Pont Museum of contemporary art. De Pont have a great collection of contemporary artwork by artists from the Netherlands and abroad. There was also a Dan Grayham exhibition on, including some of his key minimalist / conceptualist works along with various models and maquettes for his public pavilions. I was interested to see the works by Jan Dibbets, Calum Innes, Luc Tuymans, Gerhard Richter and James Turrell they had in the collection, I also came across this piece by Anish Kapoor titled 'Vertigo', It was a highly polished piece of steel which created a distortion and similar sensation to the Dolly Zoom technique first used by Alfred Hitchcock in the film 'Vertigo' (1958). The Dimensions of the piece also resembled that of a cinema screen ratio and gave the impression you were inside a lens, or inside a film as you walk towards and away from it. I tried talking a video of this effect, which can be viewed below.
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