Dust Storm (Manter, Kansas)
ArtistJohn Gerrard
Year2008 (2008)
Type3D video environmental art
LocationIrish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Dust Storm (Manter, Kansas) is a 3D digital simulation work of art, by John Gerrard.

History

In 2008, the Dust Storm was shown at Artropolis, Chicago. In 2011, it was shown at PICA, Perth, Australia, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain, and Irish Museum of Modern Art.

Analysis

The 3D "hyperreal" portraits depict beautiful landscapes.[1]

Dust Storm unites a classic image from the Great Depression with a contemporary industrial landscape, setting them in a cosmological orbit that is completed over the full spectrum of a year. The exploitation of oil that goes back to the beginning of the 20th Century is presented as the catalyst of conditions that led to the ecological disaster of Dust Bowl. But nothing is didactic. The pity in the subject comes to viewers subliminally through a visual poem of complexity and power.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Dust Storm (Manter, Kansas)". www.europeana.eu. Retrieved 2016-04-28.
  2. ↑ http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-04-26/features/0804250596_1_folk-and-outsider-art-dust-storm-galleries

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