The 'Water' exhibition at the Zimmerly art museum features artists’ works from around the world and through out time centered on the idea of water. The representations of the theme “Water” come from all mediums including; painting, sculpture, photography and video. Clever interpretations of this interesting concept range from the obvious yet beautiful wood cut of Ando Hiroshigo’s The Sea at Satta, Suruga Province, to the obscure and thought provoking work of Ross Cisneros .
While walking down the spiral stairs to the exhibition you are greeted with a large fishing net suspended from the ceiling filled with 300 something luxury brand bottled waters. This starts the viewers mind on wondering what could come next. Upon entering the first room you are greeted by many beautiful paintings surrounding a plexi-glass cube filled with distilled water, exploiting the condensation process to from a beautiful sculpture that is ever changing. Across the room from this piece is a series of large droplets of blown glass. This piece seems to mimic and compliment the condensation cube beautifully. In the second room, two pieces that I thought work well together subtly were the painting of the Raritan River from the New Brunswick side from the 1700s and the unique modern sculpture of the Hudson River made solely from nails in the wall. Both pieces bring to mind the importance and dependence we as humans had and still have on rivers as transport. One piece that I think did not work well with the flow of the exhibition was the video of the stern and aft video shots from a boat moving through water. It was slightly visibly irritating and ruined the natural flow of the rest of the show.
In general, the show definitely portrayed water as a theme very well. Whether it was symbolic or literal the works involved presented the theme in new lights and provoked new and interesting thoughts on one of the oldest elements in our world.
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