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September 13, 2006
Noguchi Museum
“……Sculpture is something that has to be experienced” ……For me,each of Noguchi's work pieces are in themselves scluptures of his experiences and ideas. His use of different media like stone, marble, metal, paper bring forth the idea of his thirst to work with variety and experience the excitement that working with something new and unknown brings.
My visit to the museum was marked by a transition in thought. Like Jeremy, I too had an initial disconnect with the sculptures in stone and marble. To me the most fascinating thing around the sculptures was the way light played on them when viewed from far, especially the mixing of the studio lights and natural light. The fact that I was not able to connect and derive anything from each of the pieces (except one) left me slightly disappointed and set me wondering as to how does one assimilate the meaning from sculptures like these.
The one that I liked best was the ring in marble since it defined fullness, indefinity and that there is never an end or stoppage to anything in life.
The tansition from not being able to connect to being able to relate and connect with Noguchi's work came about when I saw his works in urban environment design, and design of public leisure spaces. His desire to design things in everyday life and bring his work to benefit the society was clearly depicted in his play sculptures like Playscapes at Atlanta.
His light sculptures left me thinking as to how easily he turned engineering concepts to give them a new meaning as an association of his sculptures.
Truly, his works offered the magical unfolding of progressive and yet experimental ideas. At the end of the visit I was assured that I will fit in with " spatial design".
Posted by Riddhima Shelat at September 13, 2006 08:18 AM