31 October 2011

Gallery Visit 01

There will be many of these so I'll apologise in advance...sorry


Gallery: Tate Modern
Exhibition: The Unilever Series: Tacita Dean Film
Content: Silent analogue film containing a splicing of mixed images with transparent and solid colour.
Thoughts: I visited during half term so there was a great deal of children about, who seemed to enjoy the exhibition most out of anyone. I think this something to do with the vast difference in size between the shadows they were casting and the screen but also just the shadow play itself.
I’m normally not very fond of video installations but this one felt quite interactive. I liked the sense of grandeur and importance about it.

Gallery: Tate Modern
Exhibition: Permanent Collection
Content: The Diane Arbus collection is a series of black & white photographs depicting people going about their everyday lives whether normal or not. The Poetry & Dreams collection was a variety of different media and artists painting in the surrealist style.  
Thoughts:
Diane Arbus – I found her work fascinating to look at. Some photos were bizarre verging on creepy whereas others were charming moments captured on film. All were very intimate. It was a bit like flicking through a very strange family photo album.
Poetry & Dreams – My favourites were the cubist and abstract paintings.


Gallery: Tate Modern
Exhibition: Taryn Simon: A living man declared Dead
Content: A collection of intimate photographic portraits showing a diverse range of family units with references to cultural genealogy. Also photographs with scientific and cultural references.  
Thought: I found her work really interesting. I’m not sure I understood it correctly but as a collection of photographs I enjoyed them. She seemed to be looking at bloodlines of different cultures; almost trying to define some sort of pattern. The background stories ranged from quite sorrowful to plain bizarre. They added a great deal of interest to the photographic collection.



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