Holt & Kayla
After my gallery tour with well-respected modern dance choreographer Pascal Rioult, I’ve had the pleasure of taking a number of his dancers out to the galleries as well. A couple days ago I ventured out with Rioult dancer Holt Walborn, and his girlfriend Kayla Radomski (also a modern dancer).
Holt on Do Ho Suh & Richard Serra:
My favorite show was Do Ho Suh’s “dollhouse” – my favorite object in the dollhouse was the turkey ☺. But even in the drawings you feel this insanity in remembering or representing every house he’s ever lived in. I also think the whole thing provided this contrast to the Richard Serra sculptures we saw right before. In Serra’s work you’re literally INSIDE these massive sculptures, and with Do Ho Suh’s work there’s this illusion of you being really far away from it all. Cool to make such an extreme change when walking from one gallery to another.
Kayla on Richard Serra and “the element of surprise”:
I loved running through the Serra sculptures – to get that disorientation at a faster speed was crazy – until you ran into someone else taking a picture of you. I think that’s one of the qualities of those sculptures – that you think you’re alone but have no idea how many other people are in there with you. In a way everything we saw had an element of surprise; Barbara Probst’s photographs could deceive and surprise (especially the girl in the “forest”), Nick Cave’s costume’s often revealed something more or different when you walked around them, Do Ho Suh’s house perfectly hides this whole other house until you’re right next to it, and Leandro Erlich’s “elevator mirrors” that you find out are really nothing at all.
Thanks guys!
Read more about what they’re talking about in the Chelsea “Top Five” (many are closing this Saturday so HURRY!)
If YOU’D like a tour of the galleries, e-mail me at david@thetwopercent.com to check availability, learn more, and book it – I promise it will be a once-in-a-lifetime experience (unless you do it twice).
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