Guggenheim and the waxs cannons

First of all some of you reading this may be aware the art galleries and artist can really wind me up. However if your waiting for a post where I describe how I throw a hissy fit and kick paintings of the wall . This is not one of those posts and I quite enjoyed this gallery.

So my visit to the Guggenheim in Bilbao . First of i had a nice stroll from the coach station to the gallery throw a nice quaint park. very decorative and all nice kich 1930s type thing. Then bang i got a glimpse something shimming in the distance. Another blinding flick of light to the retina, turn a corner two cold aluminium curve complementing each other on a clear fresh monotone sky blue back ground. This building is just amazing it kind of unrolls in front of you and parts appear and extend as you pass. The felling carries on as you enter and you learn that when you walk in you are in the centre part which is the heart then you travel throw curving walk ways to the connecting organs then back to the heart to move to the next gallery or organ. I loved the architecture of this and as you moved around you did pass the same thing from different angles but that dint matter. You could see parts of the museum from other parts making areas seem close when in fact they were far away. The only thing that did enter my mind was dose such a unique building which is a piece of art in it own right distract from the art on display- or vice a versea. But i soon got carried away with a collection of sculptures that i have had on my list to see for a while.

A favourite sculptor of mine Richard Serra had his work The matter of time on display there. In fact it created with that space in the museum in mind. The work is the large metal shapes which invite you in and as you follow them you go throw a sense of light and dark. Getting feelings of over empowerment followed by a light freeness. What i love about his work is its large rusty metal work. However with the gentle shapes used and the grace which the work has it dose not come across as brutal.

I passed throw there permanent collection which was the snap shot of Art you see at most galleries you know A hockney, A Warhole so on and so on. They had an show a small collection of work by Anish Kapoor which are always fun to see. The idea that he set up the art work but what quite come out is a bit random i like however is a canon firing wax around the way to go. It has brought some fun back in to art and being a big fan of colour theory i love to hear what he had to say about colour. By the way the audio guides they give out are great.

The Audio guide recall helped me to get to know this guy Robert Rauschenberg. His works in a collection called Glut was the last collection he worked on before he died. They were first put together as a stage for a contemporary dance group but then later reworked to be pieces for a art gallery. The collection of re used and re worked materials throw up striking colours and texture with a hint of familiarity. The stuff that he uses was from a scrap yard in the are of America that had seen the boom of oil refinery crash down around their ears. What was once a sign of strong growth and the get richer quicker (The Glut) know sits and rusted disconnected in a scrap yard. I want to learn more about this artist and his work so there may be more about this to come.

The museum is a great place and really caters for people who like to be around art but in a informal relaxed coffee drinking way. But it also has a lot of deep behind the scene stuff especially on the Audio guide for the Art lover and there much for the pretentious artist to battle about as well. However i leave you this by Jeff Koons. What not to like about a puppy made out of flowers. find out more about the gallery and the artist at http://www.guggenheim.org/. Thank you for reading.