Event #1, Marc Foxx Gallery

For my first event visit, I went to the Marc Foxx gallery in Los Angeles and specifically looked at the works of Kasper Bosmans and Antonio Vega Macotela.

Me and an the Associate Director of Marc Foxx

Kasper Bosmans' Hummingbird

The piece of Bosmans' work that interested me the most was the Hummingbird.  To create this work of art, Bosmans laid sand and color pigments on top of a wooden surface.  The effect gives a very simple, yet beautiful look to the picture.  Depth and perspective can be seen as the orange pillars wrap around and in front of the blue pillars.  Bosmans is from Belgium and is very young, and his youthful style and simplicity is reflected in his work.

It fascinated me in our study of Math and Art how interrelated the two subjects were.  Artists use complex measurements to properly scale their work, and many geometric principles relate numbers and shapes. In Antonio Vega Macotela's piece entitled, "Prólogo a los estudios de agotamiento. La biblioteca invisible. Tomo 1," he placed 20 sheets of normal paper into a case and using a special ink placed hidden images in each piece.  Without using any tools, the images are completely invisible to the naked eye.  To reveal the image, a handheld blacklight is provided to wave over each panel to reveal the outlines and images of tools.  This combination of technology to reveal the artwork excited me and this was definitely my favorite piece at the gallery.

Blacklight revealing hidden image

Prólogo a los estudios de agotamiento. La biblioteca invisible. Tomo 1

The work of Antonio Vega Macotela defiantly influenced my midterm project in the sense that it instilled the idea that technology can be used in ways to enhance art rather than existing separately.  I would not recommend visiting the Marc Foxx gallery, however.  There were very few pieces of art being shown and there didn't seem to be an overarching theme to the gallery to link the pieces of art together.  When asking for help and explanation about one of the pieces, I received very little useful help from the curator.

Works Cited

Macotela, Antonio Vega. Prólogo a Los Estudios De Agotamiento. La Biblioteca Invisible. Tomo 1. Digital image. Marc Foxx. N.p., 2013. Web. 22 May 2015. <http://www.marcfoxx.com/exhibitions/1593/works/42384>. 

"Marc Foxx." Marc Foxx - OTHER WAYS AND MEANS. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2015. <http://www.marcfoxx.com/exhibitions/1593>.