Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities

Four Generations- Seb Patane

The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity - Odilon Redon

Locust Tank - Nicholas Lampart

This Sunday, I went to MoMA and saw the Wundekammer: A Century of Curiosities exhibit. It seems to be set up as to show how delightfully strange and beautiful the artist's mind is, using 20th & 21st century artists work and 16th, 17th, and 18th century old collectibles that evoke the spirit of the Wunderkammer, a collection of oddities that emerged in 16th century Europe. The curation of this exhibition hints that there is a collective unconscious of interest in the manipulation of nature clashing with society represented in the similarly stylized collages, drawings and grostesquely assembled sculptures and found objects. Although the context of the original works became to be overshadowed by the fact that a lot of the work simply looked alike, it was still enjoyable to see since I love pretty/creepy things.