Daniella Avanzi: Tate modern, Academic Writing Day 1

Day one of our Academic Writing consisted of us visiting the Tate Modern Museum.
The Exhibition I chose to study was the 'Arte Povera And Anti-Form' exhibiton through Energy And Process Curated by Mark Godfrey and Helen Sainsbury. The Exhibition included Artists such as Robert Morris, Richard Tuttle, Kishio Suga, Seung-Taek Lee, Susumu Koshimizu and more. The theme of this exhibition is architecture and structure and also a touch of nature. The similarities between the artisits was that they were reconstructing natural objects using industrial materials. It was unusual to see such tall trees in an enclosed space as opposed to being outdoors, and also to have all the 3D objects placed in a white room. It made me feel quite small being in that room as the 3D objects were quite large and tall. The object which I found to be most interesting was created by Robert Morris, the piece is untitled, 1967-8. In involves rectangular sheets of industrial felt cut to make straight lines so when suspended the strips of felt would tumble from their own weight forming their own geometric shapes. I found this to be particularly interesting because I admired the idea of Morris' allowing the strips to fall on their own forming their own natural shapes. Overall, I found this to be the most useful room in terms of knowledge to learn and understand more about. The sculpture of this period upset traditional ideas about how art should be distributed and displayed. Overall, I found this to be the most useful room in terms of knowledge to learn and understand more about architecture and 3D sculptures. The sculptures addressed its immediate surroundings in new ways, drawing attention to the architecture of the gallery or gesturing to the space outside its walls.