MOMA at PS1

 

At PS1 which isn't too far from my college I saw and exhibit of all of Mike Kelly's work. Mike Kelly was an artist who created what some would consider a bit disturbing art work. He committed suicide last year which sadly makes his art work more valuable. On a separate note while studying various artist I find that many have a hard time balancing fame and their personal lives along with their identity's and some time it ends is suicide which ironically makes there work worth more. He created artwork mining America popular culture and moderate to alternative traditions. Most very dark and delirious. Below is one of my favorite works at the exhibit.

 

 

In this part of the exhibit Kelly re-creates the fortress of solitude which was superman's city that was shrunken and kept in glass tubes by the evil arch-villain brainiac. Kelly after analyzing the DC comics he then created three dimensional structures that duplicated the city as seen in the comics. I personally loved this piece because of how interesting it looked before even finding out what its meaning was. It to me gives life to the comics themselves by re creating what people have only read or seen on TV. I couldn't help but touching them and staring at this part of exhibit for long periods of time.

 

Another exhibit that caught my eye and even scared me a little was a dark room that had what looked like two coffins connected by a little box. Everything was too dark to take a picture of so ill try my best to describe it. In the two coffin looking shapes there was room for you too crawl in and it was scary because it was so DARK I couldn't even see my hands in front of me. Making me think about how humans tend to fear the unknown which made me curious and scared but I scrawled in, ones I got to the end where the box connected to the other crawl in coffin there was a small hole. In this peep hole there was a movie playing in slow motion. This piece was another favorite because it engaged the viewer like I actually got to be apart of the art work also I felt like by being so engaged I was put into the artist's place. It really triggered a lot of my fears of being in the dark, now knowing what was in side and how my curiosity in the end trumped my fears and I just went in.