Abstract
THE ARTWORKS WHICH TURNS THE SPATIAL PERCEPTION INSIDE OUT IN CONTEMPORARY ART FROM GRAND PALAIS ‘MONUMENTA SERIES’ AND TURBINE HALL ‘THE UNILEVER SERIES’ EXHIBITIONS
This Article focuses on the contemporary artworks chosen from Grand Palais “Monumenta” series in Paris, “The Unilever series” from Turbine Hall in London which turned the spatial perception inside out. Works of Anselm Kiefer, Richard Serra and Anish Kapoor from Grand Palais and Olafur Eiasson, Doris Selcado and Ai Weiwei from Turbine Hall has been chosen. In context with this article’s subject; Kiefer’s “Falling Stars”, Serra’s “Promenade”, Kapoor’s “Leviathan” from Monumenta Series and Eliasson’s “The Weather Project”, Salcedo’s “Shibboleth” and Weiwei’s “Sunflower Seeds” has been examined. These works chosen from the most ınfluential works of Contemporary Art were temporary works in the space that they were exhibited in. These works altough being temporary have become permanent in the communal memory. The Space of contemporary art has been examined and the artworks that are reconstructed in everyday life’s space are focused as a method in this article. The architecture and historic process of these two spaces refered and the relation of the contemporary artworks between the space and the everting of the wiever's perception has been evaulated. Each and every work interacts with the audience in different perception levels and in different shapes inside the space's data. These works seem to be everting the perception of the audience by methods like; rejection of the data that the space itself provides, making the viewer nondirectional, illusion of reality, scale and dimension. These perception forms are evaluated in context with evertion of spatial perception and how the data in the two structures chosen affected the approach of the works that are exhibited has been examined.
Keywords
contemporary art, space, perception, turn inside out, sculpture
