The
exhibition Pink Elephants on Parade
was hold between February and March. Nick van Woert tended to explore the
meaning of objects. Growing up in Reno, Nevada, Woert had surrounded by the architectures
built with imitated materials, which meant a sculpture was no longer made by
natural substances; instead, the material was synthesized from chemical
matters. Pink Elephants on Parade
presented the similar idea. The installed works were all large sculptures made
from artificial materials to represent natural landscape, implying the fakeness
of material use on architecture.
The
materials Woert used for his works are usually various and unlimited. Additionally,
most of the presented works were named as Untitled.
Because Woert is interested in the meaning of word and how it connects to
material, the name Untitled may refer
to a particular purpose. In Pink
Elephants on Parade, I was interested in the sculpture Untitled. Although Untitled shared its name
with other sculptures, it contained the most materials among the displayed
works. The materials contained many kinds of granular substances such as cat litter, coal
slag, plaster, pulverized plastic, steel, and bronze. Other materials like base
coat, joint compound, and Plexiglas were also used to support the sculpture
structure. To me, Untitled was really
attractive because it strongly presented Woert's opinion of the material use on
modern architecture. If the materials of Untitled had not been listed, the
audience might have thought it was simply made from colored sands.
By
using the title Pink Elephants on Parade from the Disney movie Dumbo, I think
Woert tended to emphasize the illusion of modern architecture. In the scene of
Pink Elephants on Parade, Dumbo sees a series of illusion after being
accidentally drunk. Similarly, Woert's exhibition reveled the imitation of
architectural material, replacing the substances from natural sources with
various chemicals.
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