Leeds, UK
Mission Title: Space is the Place – Sculpture and Interior Space
Mission By: Anna Sanchis, Ana Isabella Byrne
Mission Finished on Date: 19-06-2008
SCRIPT
- Go the Henry Moore Foundation
- See and document (within the difficult limitations imposed by the Foundation) the exhibition “Prospects and Interiors”
- Speak with the curator about the exhibtion and the Moore Foundations mandate. How do the issues of space relate between art and architecture?
- Get good shots of the outside of the Foundation, and capture as much as of the exterior and interior as the foundation will allow.
- Have your own creative, artful, and playful approach ot art and architecture. Frolic in the sculpture garden, contrast the institutional stodginess of the Henry Moore Foundation with your own artful pranks and creative approaches.
TRAVEL BAG
What is the line between art and architecture?
Interior designers and architects have to obey certain rules, from materials and physics to the necessary clients often unnecessary demands. Artists are not untouched by the concerns of money and materials, but neither are they slaves to it, on the expanded field of the artistic imaginary, there are really no rules. Sometimes artists play with architecture and interior space as only artists can, with humor, ambiguity, and poetry.
But artists don’t always succeed in breaking the rules of these professions: sometimes they simply make décor with a different market in mind, but sometimes they manage to rethink the concerns of architecture and design, adding something new to the conversation.
The Henry Moore Institute has a conservative streak, often acting like a fusty grandmother than a dynamic arts center, but given their mandate, the institution has to find endless new ways to talk about sculpture, and one of those ways is space. The Moore Foundations’s exhibition “Prospects and Interior” explores sculptor’s drawings about architecture and interior space. None of them are quite as exciting as Gregor Schneider’s Dead House UR, but they've the potential to create interesting intersections between art and architecture. Where’s the line between the imaginary solutions of art and the commercial aesthetic object of design?
Mission Report
Anna Sanchís and I went to Leeds to shoot footage for this mini-documentary about an exhibition that was going on there. We were picked quite late and we only had a vague idea about it by the time we left. We knew it had to do with the "representation of space" but this seemed very general. We also had the idea that the place where we were going would have a garden with statues, that wasn't so... However, when we got there we found a small but very interesting exhibition showing different ways of representing space in drawing mostly. We were limited in the works we could film, but with the help Ryan Riddington and the essay provided by the exhibition we could get plenty of interesting information. We were also able to chat with a couple of the visitors. The one interview filmed is with design student Ria Kirke. Because of this exhibition both Anna and I started pondering about this thing that is so often taken for granted: space. Everywhere we went and once back in Barcelona too this exhibition gave us a different background to which the new places we saw were put in relation. It was a very fun and enriching experience.
Ana Isabella Byrne, Anna Sanchís
