Well Hello There Fellow Travelers And Hivers
So, I have this long delayed post. I've been meaning to share it for around three months now, forgetful me just never got around to it.
A while back me and the "Betty" went to visit the "Oliewenhuis Art Museum" located in "Bloemfontein South Africa."
There was a Architecture exhibition at the museum and I will be sharing two infrastructure idea's of which I found most interesting. Funnily enough none of the architecture ideas are actually located in our country.
It was more than an adventure, I have made a previous post about this museum where I shared most of the art located outside of the museum, for this post I will be sharing some or most of the art that I found intriguing. Keep in mind there are so much art in the museum it was impossible to take photos of all of them.
I had to take photos with the mobile phone because they didn't allow cameras inside the museum other than mobile phone cammies.
By now writing this post the art in the museum have most likely been rotated and new art pieces have filled the spots of the older art pieces. They do rotate the art every few weeks and by now it's time to revisit that beautiful piece of artistic history in the town of wBloemfontein.
In case you might have missed my previous post on this check it out.
Exploring Oliewenhuis Art Museum
Anyways let's dive right into the adventure, sharing the arts that I found amazing first!
Needless to say this is no photo of art, rather the photo is art itself. Pffff who am I kidding I'm no professional artist, however everything in life should be considered art in itself. Because each and everyone of us is an artist.
I have to admit that the view I got when deciding to take the photo looked and felt a lot more immersive, if that's the right word. I feel that photos never do justice at how something really looked. Think of this, if you see a photo with a view or landscape shot that is truely amazing, imagine what the photographer must have seen.
The Level Of Effort Must Have Been Unfathomable
Just imagine the tedious nature of this art piece, what I assume the artist (Elrie Joubert) did with this amazing piece was collecting small and random objects she came across daily, perhaps stuff that artist stepped on or see lying around on the ground. Although one can't say for sure but it seems plausible (That's just my opinion)
Okay let's perceive this in a different way, the art piece has 35 rows from left to right and 30 rows from top to bottom.
Now that amounts to 1050 little pieces of items that she collected over a two year (Again this is assuming, the name tag of the art piece say 2013-2014 so it's only speculation from my side) 30x35 do the math I know it looks like a lot less but it sure as hell is that amount.
This isn't where the art piece ended, oh no. (Scroll down have a look)
Artist: Elrie Joubert
Collection: I will always have Paris
Type: Mixed Media
The artist (Elrie Joubert) then went further, much much further and copied her original art piece by drawing every little piece she pinned down on her first art piece. Making an exact copy of it but only with ink on fabriano paper and also placing them in little sachets.
No need to even mention this but the second art piece where she "documented" everything is so much more spectacular and jaw dropping than the first.
Artist: Elrie Joubert
Collection: I will always have Paris "Documented"
Type: Ink on Fabriano paper
The "Undertoad"
This art piece by (Jan Harm Gysbert Schutte) is by far the one I found the deepest and loveliest at the same time.
It's a beautiful chaotic mess, almost like a dark dream where scary things lurk about and one of those dreams that you feel completely trapped in unable to wake up.
It's hard to explain what feeling this gives me but if a mind full of confusion, depression even someone that endured a lot of shock or trauma in their life had to describe how they felt in a picture I would assume it would look something along the lines of this art piece (Again just my opinion about the art piece, the artist may have intended a whole different meaning to it.)
Artist: Jan Harm Gysbert Schutte
Collection: Die "Undertoad"
Type: Charcoal, pencil, ink and paint on paper
Wading
I don't have much to say about this piece. I also don't have any clue what the artist tried to depict here. Although I can say with certainty that I found this extremely beautiful and well painted.
Look at the motion in the water, it almost looks life like as if the person is walking in front of you. Another well immersed painting looking very lifelike.
(P.S sorry about the reflections in the glass.)
Artist: Hanneke Benade
Collection: Wading
Type: Pastel on white cotton paper
A Collection Of Wood Carved Sculptures
Wood carvings or sculptures have always fascinated me in weird ways. Ever since I was a child, driving around town there were always vendors at the big intersections advertising and selling wood carvings of animals such as lions, elephants and even birds, I always loved the carved eagle they always had so much detail in them with the feathers carved in and such.
So the moment I saw these I thought to myself how much effort must have been put into this? How many has this artist created before he was happy with one that he wanted to share to the public? How much time and dedication?
These carvings definitely deserves a spot in this museum with those details.
On a different note I wonder where the artist got the names of the sculptures and why he decided to use them. Seems a bit odd but nice carvings none the less.
From the angle walking into the room they seem to be one piece that was split into three separate pieces. Three smaller pieces combining into one big sculpture when viewed at just the right angle.
Artist: Makamatele Robert Moragaga
Collection: United Nations II
Type: Monoko Wood
Artist: Makamatele Robert Moragaga
Collection: Meeting of the United Nations
Type: Monoko Wood
Artist: Makamatele Robert Moragaga
Collection: America
Type: Monoko Wood
Some Random Art Pieces I Liked
The next few art pieces I actually took photos of at the start of the whole museum exploration, it was only later that I decided to take photos of the names as well so that I can actually name some of the art pieces. However not everything has to be named, does it? I mean one can just simply enjoy the art as well, or am I wrong?
Here are a few art pieces that I enjoyed myself.
More Than One Combines Into A Bigger Picture.
It was hard getting the first piece of the art to line up with the rest, I don't know why because standing there and eye balling it, it seemed to line up perfectly but when trying the same with the camera it didn't really work.
The Drawing Collage
I think this was somewhat part of the "Architecture exhibition" displayed at the art museum.
What makes this beautiful to me is that it's white blueprints with a black background, absolutely stunning and highly detailed.
Aerial Photo Taken Of Some River
Unsure where this aerial photo was taken and what it really is, however the different grading of poisonous colours looks somewhat scary. Almost like a river on Mars before the planet "died."
Scarily beautiful.
Perhaps trying to display how we humans are poisoning our lovely home.
The Hanging Arts
A lot of random cut up pieces that form yet another bigger picture when viewed from the right angle, now don't ask me why I didn't take a photo from that precise right angle. I don't know must have been to stunned by the art piece.
The Architecture Exhibition Part
Baha'i House Of Worship
Kinshasa DRC
Now I am not completely sure if this is still concept or if it's already in progress or already constructed.
The building models were all constructed by students who study at the University of the Free State.
I did notice that there are a few "Baha'i House of Worship" temples across the world in places such as Chile and Chicago. This specific one looks to be built or soon to be built in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
So I don't have a lot of knowledge around buildings or construction. But what I do know is that I have a deep fascination for dome like structures. Namely the Taj Mahal, The Reichstag and my personal favorite the Hagia Sophia
Anything created on a scale structure is absolutely attractive to me, especially when it has a lot of detail like this scaled construction. I am a sucker for things like this, scaled airplanes, cars, mini city's, tiny soldiers! Basically anything small peeks my interest.
Tisane Cultural Village
Limpopo
There's not a lot of information available on google about these projects, a few images that's all so I do think that most of these projects are still in the making and have not yet started.
I won't say much about this project other than the fact that it's well suited for Limpopo which is a cultural rich country, constructing a modern day infrastructure with cultural background can be very befitting for the country.
I was indecisive about which angle I liked more so I thought meh I'll be adding both
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