Monday, November 8, 2010

one night at the museum


Cubist painter Georges Braque once said that art was intended to annoy us, science to reassure.
But Matthew Bakkom Minneapolis artist thinks the art and science are more friends than enemies, and has blended seamlessly into the Bell Museum. Also surreal and absurd.
For the first of a series of social events on Thursday night in the natural history museum on the campus of the University of Minnesota, Bakkom couple snippets of dialogue from a classic film with some of the habitat dioramas Bell. Strange, yes, but playful ruse also a clever way to spark renewed appreciation of these scenes of animal life yet, rancidity modern museum exhibition grandparents' sophisticated interactive animations.
Only at night, the lines of the script of 1947, Robert Mitchum "Out of the Past" was published in illuminated signs installed along with dioramas along dark corridors, giving a noir-ish effect with both words and the environment.
"Adding quick reply, cut like a fun way to bring drama to a crowded environment," said Bakkom. "I call it an educational intervention - to make some adjustments, and actually come to life."
Indeed. If you use your imagination, walking from one place to another, eating popcorn always felt like watching a trailer for "Night at the Museum 3:. When animals talk tough"
"Never married, right?" a large male mountain sheep horns made a woman resting on a rock. "Not that I can remember," she said, without breaking his gaze distant.
Viewer Takeaway: This is a lady in all the weary world.
"Is there a way to win?" asked a deer with their eyes open for white tail. "There is a way to lose more slowly," said the older, wiser friend.

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