Event #2 Singular Spaces

Event #2 Singular Spaces

I visited the Fowler Museum on a Saturday, I was looking for the exhibition Singular Spaces for a while until I noticed that the is was in the hallway of the Fowler Museum, it starts from the entrance and continues on four sides of the walls and looked great with the sunlight came in from the central patio open space of the Fowler Museum.

The art exhibition Singular Spaces is a photography collection by artist Jo Farb Hernandez on realistic artworks created by eight Spanish artists on their own house, or in their own yard. An important point for all these artworks is their incongruous juxtapositions, and that is one of the main reasons that made them artwork. All those eight artists created artworks on their own space or even their own house, and of course their artworks are obviously in contrast with the other ordinary houses around them.

The other important feature of these artworks is that they are improvisational, without plans or blue prints like building a modern house and they were built following the heart of those artists.

 I would like to introduce this artwork in the photo above, it is the house of artist Julio Basanta Lopez, which he himself calls it the House of God. However, actually there are sculptures of demons on it. He had the idea from the miseries he suffered, including the death of his brother and son and being abandoned by his father. The demons he put on his house were colorful and in different gestures. He incorporated art in his own house and his own life: his daughter was scary of the demons on their house and did not want to live inside it.

 The other artwork that drew my attention was this green monstrous face on the ground. I am fascinated by the fact that the artist who created this artwork, Peter Buch from Frankfurt, has already created hundreds artworks like these and have turned 8.6 acres of land in Spain to some kind of artistic wonderland with his artwork scattered in it.

All of these artworks by eight artists stays in their own space, while contrasting with its surrounding environment, they are a blend of the artist's houses and even their own life with art. And moreover, they are about space and art, they stays in their own spaces while they are being juxtapositioned in their surrounding environments. For some of the houses in these photographs, they are artwork partially because their own design and presence, and partially because they contrast with their ordinary environment. The house in the above picture contrasts strongly with its surrounding full of ordinary Spanish traditional buildings.

Pictures of me at the Event Singular Spaces and with Fowler Museum staff at the reception.

* I asked every staff in the exhibition to take a photo with me, but they said they had issues with this photo-taking before and only the staff at the reception can do that, so I took pictures of myself at different events and a photo of me and the reception staff.

Citations:
1 Hernandez, Jo Farb. Singular Spaces. 6 June 2015. From Eccentric To The Extraordinary. Fowler Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles.