SAIC at the Hairpin Arts Center
A team of contemporary artists from the Master of Fine Arts Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago provide an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and issues relevant to them today in the twenty-first century. The Hair Pin Studio in Logan Square has spacious galleries, and during the academic year has an exiting schedule of temporary exhibitions of contemporary art works on display. The student’s goal is to show their audience, their place in society, their brief history, function, identity, role, and, and of course, their future prospects. There is not right or wrong in interpreting Contemporary art works, or any contemporary artist. What is relevant is that we are all engaged in Davar Acher (another perspective/opinion), which is a learning experience to understand that there are various visual interpretations(inspirations) of just one or two mediums that the artist creates. We also learn from the artist’s interpretations of her/his contemporary society and we build from that—be it literary, photography or even paint, canvas, or metals that the artist creates in her/his art works. When we as an audience interpret works of contemporary art from the recent past, up to modernity, and post-modern we open up the worlds of meaning and experience for ourselves and for those who listen, hear, read or see our interpretations. It is through various interpretations of contemporary art and through their fascinating, insightful, intellectual and emotional worlds of the artist’s visual contemporary world, that show us how any audience interprets contemporary society that is different from a traditionalists perspective (Davar Acher). Furthermore, what merits our attention in interpreting the Master of Fine Art student’s contemporary art exhibition from a traditionalists perspective is successful and many good things occur. Viewers are engaged in thinking and talking about the contemporary art exhibit as its aesthetics applies to their personal interests. And it is through examining the student’s contemporary art exhibit that we can take a moment to reflect, appreciate, and most importantly respect one another and there can be many different responses to the same contemporary art exhibit, as oppose to the constraint biases of contemporary art of the recent past. Thus, a traditionalist audience can leave with meanings relevant to their own lives, therefore, a contemporary art exhibit from the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of the Art Institute is really much more contemporary than people think, it is a full case of another perspective/opinion—a Daver Acher.
