“Eliasson used colour in this work to draw viewers unwittingly into a new relationship with their surroundings … He noted that many individuals are completely disconnected from their environments, particularly urban spaces, which users perceive almost as a blank, external image of no personal consequence.” Stella Paul, Chromaphilia: The Story of Colour in Art At: https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2017/march/16/when-olafur-eliasson-dyed-the-rivers-green/ (Accessed 07.09.2021)
The first impression I get from seeing this work is that Olaf Eliasson polluted the water. Did he want to perform an artistic act, to draw attention to an environmental problem? Why make it worse? After all, any, even ecological dyes, always remain something foreign to microorganisms, which biologists cannot verify. For example, when you are tested for tubal patency or liver function, you are warned of side effects. In 10 per cent of cases, inflammation and rejection of a foreign substance occur. And if you translate 10 per cent to the number of microorganisms that were involved in the execution of this art object?!
Well, I will imagine that this is some kind of plankton or algae from which the dye was made. But there shouldn't have been that many. I will not discuss my personal attitude to this project, environmentalists give their consent ...
From the point of view of art - once this event happened and now it remains only on video and photos. Who did it help? Residents of cities who saw this? But their children will not be aware of this experience. Christo and Jeanne-Claude did big and epic things to attract attention and take out of the routine of the city or landscape. I don’t know, I don’t like this project, and I don’t want to discuss it.
“Karla Black is a Scottish artist who creates abstract, immersive sculptures that explore physical experience as a way of communicating and understanding the world around us.” National Galleries Scotland At: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/karla-black (Accessed 07.09.2021)
The artist lives the material. She likes to use petroleum jelly, body cream, body butter, and she enjoys it. Lipstick stains. …
Karla Black expresses one very important idea that representational art can take us to another world, but sculpture (here I believe she means abstract sculpture) can take us much deeper or further.
I have been repeating this for many years now and have tried to bring it in the material, but for this kind of expression, I do not need to use a body cream - it is just white, but I need colour.
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