We don't have big Art Galleries in Cyprus. What we usually have is small scale exhibitions. That's why National Gallery of Art is one of my favorite places in DC. That's not the point though. The paintings in the museum, to my observation, had a different sense into them. It felt distant. I was close enough to appreciate Pablo Picasso's Still Life painting but yet distant enough to be forced to compare other cubist paintings to Pablo Picasso's. I noticed that the value I attached on to the painting was simply relative to the other paintings. I was forced to follow the hallway of impressionist and abstract paintings and find myself as a tiny human being in front of the masterpieces. Besides the "please don't touch" writing next to a sculpture was very striking.
The fact that technology is providing a portable medium for the art is allowing people to perceive what they personally would see in the abstract mind of the artist. It is not forcing art to sit there to be displayed. Digital arena is providing access to shape and observe their subjective ideas by providing necessary tools and it is saying "Art must swim*" it should not just sit there. It should wash you away and make you drown in emotion. This is what technology is allowing us to experience. And this is why art should be taken a step further with aid of multimedia.
*From Merlijn Twaalfhoven's statement for La vie Sur Terre Foundation in Netherlands
~Günperi
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