The Wiesner Building, designed in 1985 by I.M. Pei, had a similar roof design as the glass pavilion he designed for the JFK Library. Inside the building was the MIT List Visual Arts Center, which was small, but fascinating.
The main exhibit,
In Between Glances, featured German contemporary visual artist Alicja Kwade. In
Object-Tree Works items seem to emerge from the interior of tree trunks. Using a robotic arm, she was able to make the forms without using a traditional saw.
Trans-for-Men 11 includes one granite boulder and 10 permutations, made from 3-D scans of the original boulder, separated by double sided mirrors.
Light Touch of Totality was my favorite piece. It features 5 stainless steel rings, each with a 16-foot diameter, adorned with over 1,400 strands of beads made from wood and lapis lazuli.
Normally I wouldn’t photograph an ordinary bowl and vase, but these aren’t ordinary by any means. The original functional objects have been ground up very small, combined with epoxy resin, glass and brass, and those particles have then been used to cast new forms reminiscent of ancient Greek pottery. You might be surprised to learn this bowl was once the artist’s iPhone...
.,.and this vase was her Macbook.
At first glance,
Against the Run is a freestanding clock on the plaza outside of the museum.
In actuality, the minute and hour hands tell the correct time, but the second-hand goes counterclockwise one second and then returns to 12:00, while the clock’s face rotates to the left each second.
Mother Nature was kind enough to put on a show on the adjoining mirrored building.
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