CHAPTER FOUR

How The Use Of Exhibition Space Creates Meaning.

When you walk into an art gallery you would automatically assume that all of the artworks are important and relevant to the world of art. But, if you were to remove those artworks and put them, for example, into a library or on the ceiling on top of a dentists chair, their relevance would instantly change. As people will go to a gallery just to view art whereas those who go to the library will just overlook such artworks as their primary intention is to look for and read books. So the beauty of the artwork is wasted.

Upon entering the Tate Modern, you are expecting everything you see will be delightful and fulfilling, in terms of art. Yet some of the artworks within the building is as amazing as you would expect, but there are some artworks that you feel that they don't deserve to be in such a gallery. These are the pieces the that could be done by anyone, and with no apparent meaning behind it, altough they all have a specific meaning behind them it just takes the right person in the right frame of mind to realise these. No matter what kind of lighting or space that these artworks are in, these will all seem very important because they are all in a major art gallery. Individually they will all have their own specific lighting and space requirements, one piece in particular relies on the lighting for the piece to make sense, this is Ishi's Light by Anish Kapoor (above) needs the light so that there is that column of light through the middle and wherever you stand the column of light will always be reflected with you in the middle. So this is how the exhibition space creates meaning.