A Few of My Favorite Things: An Eclectic Show
By Sima Kumar Das
January 5, 2020
Richard Humann, Sirenic Cauldron
The Elga Wimmer favorites on display in her Chelsea gallery from December 7-21, 2019 are an eclectic group. But they also embody a unifying theme. What unites them is this: Conceptualism is still an important force but ideas must go hand in hand with physical product.
Richard Humann exemplifies the adventurousness of a neo-Conceptual artist who has taken to the technology of Augmented Reality to push viewers into a new artistic frontier – as The New York Times’ Ted Loos suggested on November 27, 2019 in a review of an AR show projected above the High Line. That projection threw up 12 imaginary constellations in the sky. Of these, one – a constellation providing an armature to a partial image of the Statue of Liberty – was again projected above the High Line at the opening of A Few of My Favorite Things exhibit on December 7. The show displays a photograph of this AR art work, Sirenic Cauldron Over Hudson Yards. The wonder of the image bewitches you to ponder about Lady Liberty enlightening the world in today’s political climate.