Q
Questions
Art aims to ask questions of viewers, in particular about big subjects such as ‘What is our purpose?’ and ‘What happens when we die?’ Questions can make people think. Creating one opens a conversation with the viewer, as it asks for a reply. A dialogue is presumed, which makes communication seem more personal.
Robert Stadler, ?, 2007Austrian artist Robert Stadler asks questions of worshippers in this installation first created in Paris in 2007. He wrote: ‘Visitors enter the church through a lateral door and first see a scattered group of luminous spheres hovering in the choir. As one approaches the centre of the nave, the spheres form ...
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