Walking in the exhibit you immediately feel like a pawn
incorporated in the artwork, because no matter where you stand, the, floor to
ceiling, structural polygons surround you.
Styrofoam beams appear to pierce the architectural confines of the room
and the projected, rotating lights feign movement of the beams. Accompanying
background music stimulates the observers’ auditory senses as well.
Robert Gero calls his exhibit a strange paradoxical space or an infinity structure. An infinite space is bounded by walls but always is capable of revealing something new and continues to unfold eternally.
Robert Gero calls his exhibit a strange paradoxical space or an infinity structure. An infinite space is bounded by walls but always is capable of revealing something new and continues to unfold eternally.
Robert Gero is an interdisciplinary artist who studies philosophy and mathematics. The philosophical question he attempts to answer in his exhibit is how to represent a stable exterior and an infinitely expanding interior; the paradoxical structure. How can something be terminal, yet always growing? This incorporation of philosophy reminded me greatly of our neuroscience module from DESMA 9. Not only did we learn about prominent philosophers, but also we studied the vast capacity of our brains. Our brains do not physically grow (once we’ve matured), to my knowledge, but every day we are expanding our knowledge. Therefore, our brains are another type of infinite or paradoxical space. Additionally, this exhibit reminded me of the mathematics unit because part of Gero’s research involves using mathematical models in hopes of calculating the infinite.
"EXHIBITION: Infinity Structures:
Paradoxical Spaces by Robert Gero | UCLA Art | Sci Center + Lab." UCLA
Art | Sci Center + Lab. UCLA, n.d. Web. 21 May 2015.
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