«It really is excellent
work — I believe this is the smallest parallax ever obtained, and it is certainly a milestone in
modern observational
astronomy,» says Mareki Honma, an astronomer at the National Astronomical Observatory
of Japan.
This year
astronomy was the focus
of the Nobel Prize in Physics, as three astronomers two
of whom are faculty members at one
of our parent institutions, the California Institute
of Technology were recognized for four decades
of work leading to one
of the great discoveries
of modern astronomy, the detection
of gravitational waves.
This exhibition joins three important contemporary artists who have each incorporated reminiscences
of Pollock into their
works in very different ways: Thomas Demand's
work Barn, is a photograph
of a paper reconstruction based on the mythical barn used by Pollock as a painting studio; Peter Doig's painting, Daytime
Astronomy, takes as its starting point a central figure lying in the grass in an open landscape - the figure is based on a photograph by Hans Namuth
of Pollock lying in the same position; while Andreas Gursky's
work Untitled VI is a photograph
of a Pollock painting hanging in the Museum
of Modern Art, New York.