Today I went to the Rhona Hoffman Gallery and the Peter Miller Gallery in the West Loop, as well as to the Art Institute to see the Cartier-Bresson Exhibit.
It interesting to see Kehinde Wiley right next door to Caleb Weintraub. In Weintraub's artist statement he describes the settings of his art as, "an imagined future where the boundaries between the perceived world and the virtual world tangle." Kehinde Wiley uses art historical references in his paintings. Both artists use the displacement of their subjects into these settings to tell something about their subjects as well as the reality they have been taken out of.
The Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit was a different type of experience. I have never seen any of Cartier-Bresson's photographs in person. The size of the exhibition and the potency of the photographs made for an amazing and beautiful show. Other than seeing the photographs, my favorite part of experiencing that exhibition was watching an older woman look at Listening to de Gaulle, near Aubenas, France . She walked up to the photograph, paused, and laughed. I could see how delighted she was by the image.
Great day.
-Jess
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