Maurizio Cattelan at the Guggenheim

The Gugg One Copyright 2012 Bryan Moore

The Other day i went to the Guggenheim with a couple of friends  to see one of the last days of Mauizio Cattelan‘s retrospective.  I was not very familar with Cattelans work just what my friend had told me and a piece I saw on Sunday morning with Charles Osgood.  “Sunday Morning” is something I watch every week and segment they did on it seemed very interesting, but the thing that sold me was Cattelan was basically retiring so this would be the one time to see every piece ever did including those in private collections.

The Black and White Photo above  was taken on another day with my Hasselbald in the attempt to use architecture as a subject matter for abstract photography.  The Building its self is one of the best things I have seen at the Guggenheim just clean simple lines  it can be used to make some great compositions the thing that limits it is trying to exclude the surrounding building.  The digital images below are from my iphone when I went to see the show this weekend.  One of the interesting things about this show was for the first time in the galleries history the entire show was hanging in the center void in the middle of the spiraling ramp.  It had just snowed for one of the first time here in NY so I had decided to take my time and walk to the museum and photograph along the way, so I had my hasselbald with me.  Usually they don’t let you take pictures from any where but the ground floor  or at least that is what I have been told in the past.  I took advantage of the lean rules and tried to get in some shots but it was dark to be shooting with me hasselabld, so we will see what happens this time when I push the film.  One of the thing that really interested me was since every thing was hung in the middle people lined the walls looking and point allowing for some great shots as shown below

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