Reina Sofía

I visited the Museo Reina Sofía today.  There was an exhibition entitled ¨Monochromes¨ -- a collection of monochromatic modern art organized by color, black, red, blue, gold, silver, white.  My two favorite pieces were both lenses. 
 
The first was an enormous circular rose colored lense that offered a view, slightly shrunken, out a window to a garden outside. When I looked, an old man was standing in the garden in the left 1/3 of the window.  The whole thing was so balanced it almost looked purposeful.  When you stood with your back to the window and looked through the lense, you could see other people in the museum (slightly magnified and blush-colored) crowded around the lense looking at you.
 
The second lens was actually two grey polarized lenses, V-shaped and arranged like this: >>.  As you walked around them, you saw the other side of the room in greyish gloom (when you were looking through only one) or, abruptly, yourself when the two lenses overlapped and the polarized filters blocked all light, leaving only your reflection on the shiny surface.
 
Next was a Lichenstein exhibit.  One of my favorites there was a painting of the upper half of a masked man, eyes wild.  The speech bubble said, ¨What?! Why do you ask that? What do you know about my image replicator?¨