Gallery Review- The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

This visit to the Baltic was attended by myself, Shaun Pemberton, Kate Kneen and Sarah Hedley. We'd decided to visit a few galleries together for the blog work, spending the morning experiencing the work of more contemporary artist that could help us with our blogs, or provide inspirition for us.

The first exhibition that we went to was a show by the artist Sofia Stevi. Her practice worked within sculptural work, painting and larger work on various fabrics and papers.

In terms of what inspired the artist, she drew from various sources from philosophy, everyday life and literature, the Victorian poet Christina Rosseti all the way to images that she'd found on the internet.

Her work had a dynamic playfulness to it that described the human form in sweeping, curved motions. The use of soft, feminine colours combined with the cloth material that alot of them were made on, helped to create a tense eroticism that evoked the feelings and sensations of the flesh.

The next exhibition that we visited was on the second floor of the gallery. The show was titled "Missing Time", by the artist Serena Korda.

The artists work stretched across multiples disciplines such as performance, sculpture and sound that attempts to help the audience reconsider the various aspects of tradition and communion within our lives. The artist has used their work to explore phenomenon known as "Music of the Spheres", planetary harmonies that are listened to via homemade radio telescopes. During the Renaissance period, it was believed that this particular harmony had a direct effect upon the human psyche.

Korda created a series of large ceramic dishes that play the role of sound resonators.

While I might not work that often in sculpture and never in performance, I found the entire section to be rather fascinating, exploring the ideas of the sound of the universe and trying to create work based around different phenomenon.