Our MoMA Trip couldn’t come at a better time. I was planning on coming to this exhibition for a while since I saw the posters and flyers all around the city. I was interested in both the exquisite craftsmanship of the pieces and the way that they were presented in the space.
As I walked in to the gallery space, I had an immediate flashback to my childhood to this particular memory. I was around the age of 10 -12, my grandfather took us to the newly opened exhibition where the buildings and the monuments of Istanbul were replicated to match the original at a miniature scale. It was our winter break from school and going to this exhibition with my grandfather made my day. I was fascinated by the models and seeing the exact replicas of the familiar buildings that since then, craftsmanship and attention to detail played a huge role in my character.
The art pieces were arranged in a way that makes you feel like you are having a panoramic view of a city. The different height, style, color and detail of each model, really mimicked the city environment. The use of found material and everyday objects was an important aspect of the exhibition where one could easily understand that, in order to make art you don’t need neither expensive nor special material.
The artists aim to create a ‘fantastic, utopic world of his dreams’ really came through the models and expressed the idea to the viewer. The medium that he is working with, paper, found objects, can be ordinary but in order to create great work from basic material is something that needs a bit of creativity and imagination.
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- U.N, CAAC, The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva
Kimbembele Ihunga, CAAC, The Pigozzi Collection, Geneva
