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Ansel Adams Center's "Open Series" Installation
with objects, photographs and text at the Ansel Adams San Francisco based artist Lukas Felzmann creates complex environments that must be absorbed rather than scrutinized. His site specific installation on view at the Ansel Adams Center creates a provocative symbology that alludes to the benefits and hazards of learning, and the chasm between the realm of intellect and the realm of nature. Charged symbols such as a winged blackboard, barbed wire, towering stacks of books and dangling, knife-like shards of stone confront the viewer in a claustrophobic room that Felzmann refers to as "anti-space".
Combining mural sized photographs with found objects, Felzmann alludes
to the powerful forces of nature and time. The environment he creates
becomes a stage where oppositional elements play off of one another
to create a tense and evocative balance. The installation seems
to suggest that learning - the measured, contemplative scrutiny
of our relationship to the natural, the cultural and the historical
- is the only way to keep hope alive in these unsettling times. |
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