Today, online, we received this image and text
from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney :
Chuck Close: Prints, Process and Collaboration
‘It may seem at first that you are looking at a face, but it soon becomes clear that each work is a document of a mind-boggling process’ – Sydney Morning Herald.
MCA Members receive unlimited FREE entry to the Chuck Close exhibition.
Daily until 15 Mar
The SMH quote set us thinking again about the latin dictum Nomen est omen. Meaning, in relation to people and their occupations or significant activities, the name forebodes the act. Sometimes referred to as nominative determinism.
It occurred to us that the Mr CLOSE might well be regarded as a fine example of such a view.
We appreciated the simple meta-complexity of the image the MCA provided :
someone(s) looking at something :
we (you, me) and the father look at an image/
a child and the image of a child look at us...
A CLOSE look at the detail of the 'actual' child in the overall image - simply by clicking ENLARGE - and it now appears more like the image made by Mr CLOSE :
detail
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
LOGOS/HA HA
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