I had a layover in Charlotte which gave me some time to explore. The hotel was in a very nice area and the weather was basically perfect. I didn’t get the earliest start, so it was a bit tricky to pick what to see. I ended up walking around just to take in the sights and then hit the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. It is not a very expansive gallery but it’s a nice building. Another great surprise was the price. Unless you do research, you never know what a gallery’s pricing plan is. The range is from zero to too much (in my opinion). I appreciate it when the price matches the amount of work on display. The Bechtler did a good job – they were only asking $10 and since I was military, they asked for nothing. Very nice.
These were a actually in the hotel but I thought they might be good for reference.
The statue is at the entrance of the gallery, the pic on the left is from the second floor deck.
The gallery has four levels, the first three are a bit limited in space, but the fourth is twice as big.
Left: Max Ernst, Owl-Harlequin, 1955. I saw an Ernst in the SFMOMA about five years ago so I had to take a picture of this one. The one in eh SFMOMA was La Famille Nombreuse (The Numerous Family), 1927. On the right is a lithograph - Untitled, 1968 - by Marc Chagall. I took it as a reminder that people like what they like and/or things can be liked only because they're famous.
The fourth floor was dedicated to Virginia Jaramillo. It was titled Principle of Equivalence. These are some of the works that caught my eye. These are older and I think much better than her later work - but that's art. On the left is Teotihuacan Studies. The Plane Where the Heavens Touch the Earth, 1997. I liked the colors and texture. On the right is Anonymous Site, 2-712, 1990. It's linen fiber with hand-ground earth pigments. She was into making her own paper at the time. You can also see more of her work at PACE.
Left: Birth of Venus, 1975, oil on canvas.
Center: Pink Line, 1973, oil on canvas.
Right: Paris Painting, 1965, oil and beeswax on canvas.
- mm -
No comments:
Post a Comment