April 27, 2005

David Byrne's online review of 'Ashes and Snow'

Gregory Colbert's "Ashes and Snow" at the Nomadic Museum gets the once over on David Byrne's online journal. An excerpt:

Colbert seems quite the messianic type — the need for a whole building/museum, the hushed, worshipful atmosphere. And placing himself in many of the scenes. This extreme romanticism and self-exaltation is somehow disturbing to me. On one level it could be seen as a celebration of the wonders of nature and life on earth. Cavorting underwater with the whales and manatees looks like fun — I wish I was there — but his attitude and posture seem more than a little Christ-like. Maybe I’m just another arty cynic. If we can, after the passage of time, “appreciate” the romantic awe-inspiring work of Leni Riefenstahl — whose images, from Nüremberg to the Nuba, are now seen by some as beautiful in and of themselves and divorced from their service to the Nazis — then why not this? Aren’t they more or less the same?

April 27, 2005 11:37 AM in Cheap Stuff, Downtown, Museums, Sightsology

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