18 April 2015

The Charge of the Light Regard : from Logos to Lenin's Lamps and now the Light Show

     
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12  The Bible, English Standard Version

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
16 April - 5 July 2015
            

 Lenin the Lamp and the Light : the cover of 'We Build' (1929)
                 
"Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country."
Vladimir Lenin (1920)
Our Foreign and Domestic Position and Party Tasks. Moscow
GOELRO (State Commission for Electrification of Russia)

*These images come from the excellent article 'Lenin's Lamps' by Eric Laursen.
                
Below : Arkady Shaikhet (photographer), Lenin’s Lamp, 1925
     

Theatre of the Actors of Regard 
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something... 

 LOGOS/HA HA