“Looking at two cities from one point of view”, 2002 by Rashad Alakbrov
Location
This art work should be a Mixed media installation-“light”
Principle
In this installation, the lamps on both sides alternately turn on and off. Through this, two different shadows will form out on the wall, sometimes an oriental sometimes a western skyline appears will be projected .
I find it on an art website ,when I saw it first time I focus on the objects that putted on the white table, all of them is some stationaries, decorations ,and CD .I can’t recognize there are any connection between them .it seems no special and any meaning to put them on the table ,and they give me a feeling which is causal setting .so I want to appreciate them more careful and want to find out what it wants to represent.
When I look it more carefully , I started to pay attention to the background on the white wall , in fact the focus are not be the real objects what I see the first time, there are some shadow with cityscape on the left hand side , which is a prosperous city and make me feel where should be fast economic booming .also there are other buildings with totally different type of style on the right side , which seems some church and ancient castle style , it brings out a classis and oriental construction style feeling for me.it is quite similar to shadow playing.
It is quite funny to know the artist use the shadow of the object to form the city view ,I do think it is really difficult to use the unrelated and common object which can find it everywhere to form such this modern or oriental construction shadow.it is a really crazy idea for me to know the artist who can use the same object to form two different views from one point .actually I believe it is possible to use common objects to form a shadow with special effect but it is unbelievable to form two views .so Rashad Alakbrov should use a very long time to prepare and set this installation, which is quite difficult for him to find what is suitable to form this two different views ,and you also need to set all object accurately ,it should spent so much time on the setting and the preparation.i want to say it is really a cool art work .
After I saw this art work first time , I try to search more information through the internet and I find the name of the art work which named “Looking at two cities from one point of view”, I think that is a quite meaningful and suitable name for this art work because we can see two totally different views from one point. “every coin has two sides” I remember someone said that before ,everything have their pros and cons , and you can have different views on everything .this installation represent the same thing, we can have two different views on the same thing. I think this art work quite special and point out that we can’t only to see the one side of everything , considering every side ,you will see different points of view and also you will have new discover on which you can’t expect it before. It is really important for us to learn thinking with different angle .it will help us to have more idea and to think deeper and more about different aspects.
When I think more about it, maybe a city should not only have one style .nowadays most of the city tend to be more cosmopolitan , having more construction to transmit a developed and advanced impression to the world. however I think it is too monotonous for us to have the same style city in the world, I don’t want to see the same construction style between oriental and western when I am travelling .we should have multi-cultural city in the world ,everyone want to see western culture when they visit the Americas, or experience the renaissance in Europe ,the oriental in china .from this point of view, the city should be at least two-sided developing , not only focus on their business also it is important for their own culture .from different angle of view, it may be also a great development on their travel because of attractive and unique cultural characteristic .
I write so many about what I experienced in this art work ,I do think this art work will be good to make people think more about what it wants to represent .also I believe different people will experience that with different feeling in this art work ,moreover there are one thing the same , it really brings us so many review.