BlackBox & Sculptures

With the recent nice weather, I decided to go back to Hirshhorn to check out the sculpture garden and new BlackBlox and color exhibits. The sculptures were really cool to see because you could get so close. The detail in many of them was so intricate and they were of such massive size. Inside, the BlackBox exhibit sounded a lot better than it actually was, in my opinion. Described as " In “BLOCK B,” (2008), a motionless camera watches night and day as dramas unfold on the various floors of a massive apartment complex in Malaysia. It also went on to describe an aspect of voyeurism and insight into people's lives, which really intrigued me. The film itself was 20 min. long with the camera anchored in one spot filming the apartment building and people coming in and out of the actual rooms. There were voice overs where the artist guessed what the people were doing or saying in a narrative way. I think it was interesting to look at this building and see everyone coming in and out, going about the daily motions of life. I think the voice over could have been more interesting or gone into more detail. The shots of the building at night were definitely my favorite. The next exhibit I saw was called color forms that I guess was there last time we went, but I must have missed it. My favorite part of the exhibit was a square of pollen that was such a pure golden yellow. The intro to the exhibit with Rothko paintings was also impressive. Hirshhorn has definitely become my favorite museum in DC and I am definitely going back for the next opening exhibit in May.