Review of Freedman Gallery Annex
Introduction
The Freedman Gallery Annex is located two blocks away from Albright College. Unlike the Mexico Illuminated, the Annex consists of mostly video, photography and installations and not much painting and conventional sculpture by young artists. Most of them were trained in architecture rather than art. They include Daniel Navarro, Fernado Palomar, Kuis Miguel Suro, Franciso Urgarte, Lourdes Mendez, Javier Duenas, Enrique Guerrero, Marcos Ramirez, etc. Most of them are from Guadalajara.
When I stepped into the warehouse, I was amazed how they could present art work in such kind of an old and doom place. But later till I walked in, I finally understood the ware house was definitely a suitable place to have such strange art work.
There were about 4 displays which caught my eyes and I do want to talk about them. The first one is a Wall paper which has no title by Javier Duenas in 2003. The wall paper actually is a large map. Usually map has information about lands and oceans, but this one just consists of oceans’ names such as Indian Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean and seas’ names such as Red sea and Arabian Sea. The map is in blue color, which is just like the normal map. Another display I want to talk about is a wall decoration by Agustin Solorzano. I could clearly see that the artist drew some lines on the wall and then he stuck the leaves into the areas. And there is a long path between the two grass grounds (which were made by leaves). On the grass fields, there are trees which are represented by triangular green shape. He uses the atmospheric perspective well because when the path gets farther away, he narrowed it and he made the trees smaller. Then I could know which trees are the nearest to me and which are the farthest. When I stepped further away, the whole thing looks like a landscape painting to me, too.
