Resumen de Showing and telling
Else discussed the how cultural clash makes for a fascinating new show. As Europe's's premier biomedical enterprise, there is a lot riding on how far the UK's multi-million-pound Crick Institute can push the frontiers. Less obviously but equally importantly, there is also a lot riding on how well it handles its engagement with the public, through lectures, exhibitions and sci-art collaborations. Crick's first approach to the latter is Deconstructing Patterns, a show where commissioned artists worked closely with the institute's researchers to explore patterns at the microscopic level. Perhaps wisely, the exhibition is framed as a conversation between art and science. In the right hands, this leads to good art--literally in the case of artist Helen Pynor
