20131226-_DSC5678-Madrid Wander One

I went to the ABC Ilustration museum for my outing today, which was quite neat. The main floor temporary exhibition was a collection of creepy art by a variety of artists, some kinda Gothic Lolita style, and others. One was called Madame Butterfly that I remember, and there were a couple sculptural pieces as well. There were also exhibits on the history of the organization (none in English, so I'm not sure what all they were). It seems it's associated with the lottery somehow. There were some really cool pieces upstairs made entirely by poking holes in paper--a different kind of pointilism. The holes outlined figures and created shadows, and the paper was deformed into 3d, a sculpture of sorts. Also in that room were some cool videos of performance pieces on reflection and water. One was a piece where silver paint flowed around natural subjects in rivers and eddies. Another had a woman put her hands and arms through two mirrors and shake hands with herself, making an endless handshake. She did some other similar pieces that reflected the bindedness and difficulties she faced in getting her hands through little holes in the mirrors.

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