The Bilbao Experience 2
Photos by Robin Hill (c)
I once heard Sting say that he will never forget the first time he heard his own song ‘Roxanne’ on the radio…and that it was an experience unlike any other. I can’t say I felt the same way the first time one of my photos was shown in a gallery, but this time here at the Guggenheim in Bilbao, I did feel connected to my work and there was a sense of professional pride at seeing my photos projected on the walls of the museum at a nice size of about six feet by four feet. The show feels completely different here in Spain….the spatial arrangement of the galleries are not continuous and one has to visit several different rooms to see the whole show, whereas in New York, one could simply traverse down the ramp, pop into the adjunct galleries, come out again and continue the descent…a purely joyful experience. Here at Gehry’s Gugg…the ceiling’s are really high…too high…creating an acoustical conundrum and spatial handicap…but the show does bring together the wide range of Wright’s work and presents it in such a way that one is drawn into Wright’s world.
Photo by Robin Hill (c)