Learning Through Innovation
Check out this fantastic, final press release from the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History. Great words on Warren’s DreamTime piece and its home in the FWMSH’s new Innovation Gallery…
Innovation Gallery Features Art Installation By bahdeebahdu
“DreamTime” Uses Light and Found Objects to Encourage Innovation
FORT WORTH, TEXAS – When the newly constructed Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (FWMSH) opened Friday November 20th 2009, its centrally located Innovation Gallery revealed DreamTime, an illuminated sculpture created specifically for the space by Warren Muller of bahdeebahdu. Intended to encourage hands-on creativity, the assemblage is created from recycled materials.
“In DreamTime, we’ve taken items that might be thrown away and repurposed them with light. Our hope is that this work of art will inspire guests to use their imaginations so that they, too, can create something from nothing,” explains Muller.
The sculpture is more than 40 feet long, 8 feet wide in some places, weighs nearly half a ton and includes tricycles, rusted metal lawn furniture, old metal toys, chandeliers and even the grille of a jeep. As for the illuminated portion, Dreamtime incorporates clear and multi-colored incandescent lighting, neon and fiber optics that slowly change color.
Former Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Philip Yenawine notes Muller’s aesthetic is influenced by the work of numerous artists from earlier eras – Cubists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque; Dadaist Marcel Duchamp; Surrealists Joan Miro and Jean Arp. His work in assemblage and conceptual sculpture also has been affected by the work of more recent artists including Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg.
Viewers of DreamTime are encouraged to experience the illuminated sculpture from all angles. “Our hope is that Museum guests will take advantage of the open space of the Gallery to explore every aspect of this unique work of art,” said Museum of Science and History President Van A. Romans. “I think everyone will discover something in the installation to which they can relate. Ultimately, we want guests to use this sculpture for inspiration as they learn and explore in our Innovation Studios,” Romans added. “It is part of the process of opening up inquisitive minds to transcend traditional ideas and to explore the endless possibilities of learning and creativity.”
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