Dan Steinhilber Art Exhibition

Yesterday I had the opportunity to check out Dan Steinhilber's art exhibition in the BYU Museum of Art. This artist definitely has an interesting view on things. He had exhibits of materials that I would not have normally thought would be artistic at all. I would have thought of it as trash. I do not know exactly his motive, but to me aesthetically his artwork represents our society. He gathers up material that is mass produced and arranges it to look ordered somehow. The act itself of putting up his exhibitions such as a board of orange packets is considered artwork. He had a monitor on in fast forward motion that showed the people people this stuff together, and it looked artistic to me. I cannot quite decide if his artwork is considered contextualism or formalism. I would say it is contextualism, because he used modern things to makeup his artwork.
My favorite piece of artwork is a picture of a florescent light bulb exploading as if a 9mm bullet going through it in slow motion. They way the light bulb shatters looks as if it is in perfect order.
I thought the film of him blowing packaging foam around in his bathroom is bizzare, but it was interesting for sure. He also had a placard of clown balloons and a stand of PVC pipe. I just thought it was interesting, and opened my mind up a bit.
I personally would not have thought someone could have made trash look pretty and ordered, but Dan Steinhilber proved to me that that is possible. We live in a world with much garbage, and there has to be a way in which we can look on the bright side. Imagine graffiti being beautiful. It would be difficult to imagine for me, because culturally tagging is against the law as it is wrong. However, if someone came out and decided to make the trashy graffiti look beautiful, then people would appreciate it. I believe Dan Steinhilber has an excellent way portraying his ideas through the trash that we find and work with everyday in our lives. I enjoyed seeing a wonderful art display, and I recommend it to everyone.