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Sensate: Bodies and Design
Friday, September 4, 2009
Blog entry by Ambrea Kuhn, The Leonardo's Fall 2009 Intern
Like the BODY WORLDS exhibit, "Sensate" gives us a new perspective on the human body that we have never seen before. Every artist featured in the exhibit looked at the body in a different way and developed a unique design for each piece.
All photos from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Website
For "Sensate," the SFMOMA commissioned a new piece by Andrew Kudless. His design, "P_Wall," features two gallery walls covered in smooth plaster hills that represent how human skin expands to fit added pounds. A video on the museum's web site with Andrew shows the entire process from design to the finished product. (We can't embed this video but make sure you watch.)
The exhibit also features photographs by Aziz & Cucher where photographs of human skin are distorted to look like rooms. "Bone Cigarette Table," made in 1977 by John Dickinson, looks exactly as it sounds... a table with leg bones, instead of simply legs. One piece by Marcel Wandersan, looks almost like a human vertebrae until you read that it is a 3-D scan of snot as it is ejected during a sneeze.
So if you happen to be in or near the bay area this fall, be sure to wander through the gallery and check out the askew body parts at "Sensate"!
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