Event: Hammer Museum

Outside the Leap Before You Look exhibition

On April 27th, I visited the Hammer Museum with my roommate.  The main exhibition that we looked at was Leap Before You Look, which examines the history of Black Mountain College.  Many of the works created at the experimental college were featured at the exhibition.

One thing that reminded me of what we have been learning in this course was the area of the exhibition focused on Buckminster Fuller.  There were a few pictures of him with his geodesic domes.  Fuller was an artist, but he had a great impact on science.  His geodesic domes were mainly architectural, but they highly resembled the structure of carbon nanostructures.  Now, many of those structures are named after him, like fullerenes.

Artwork that looked very dynamic

Buckminster Fuller and
his geodesic domes

Some other works in the exhibition showed pictures of people dancing and moving around.  The pieces had a very strong sense of movement and reminded me of the transition of art from still to dynamic.  Though these were just snapshots, you could still tell that there was movement.

In a walkway at the museum was Oscar Tuazon's piece, Vena Contracta.  It was a pipe made out of fiberglass concrete.  It very much resembled vessels in the human body, but it was made of very inorganic material.

Vena Contracta by Oscar Tuazon

Overall, I enjoyed my visit to the Hammer. The Leap Before You Look exhibition had a huge variety of artworks.  It was interesting because there were so many types of art that related to many different things.

Me and an employee at the sculpture exhibition

Leap Before You Look: https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2016/leap-before-you-look-black-mountain-college-1933-1957/