Feeling very cultural this evening, at the end of a good Saturday. A few weeks ago in London, I spotted that there was a lecture on some of Gerhard Richters’ work in the Tate Modern. Although I like his work, particularly the photrealistic stuff like Kirze, as featured on the Sonic Youth ‘Daydream Nation’ album cover, and in the painting ‘Phantom Interceptor’, I think I would have ended up killing some arty pharty person going on about how the artist wasn’t imposing themselves on the viewer or somesuch nonsense. So in the interest of not breaking the 6th commandment, Amo and I headed up to Tate Modern this morning to check out the artists pictures for ourselves.
The turbine hall of Tate Modern is always interesting, and this time there was no disappointment. I thought the new display, mouldings of the insides of various boxes, would have me laughing in ridicule as soon as I entered the building. But it was actually really fun! Kids in the building were loving the whole idea completely. And they weren’t the only ones wishing they could kick the boxes around, climb up them, throw them at their friends etc. Lots of fun!
From the Modern we went up to St Pauls via the newly refurbished Paternoster Square, and on to the Reubens exhibition at the National Gallery. As well as taking in the exhibition on Reuben’s development into one of the worlds greatest painters, we checked out The Hay Wain, The Fighting Temarare, and several other famous artists works, from Boticelli to Seurat.
Very high brow! More pictures on the days activities in the gallery…
weren’t we just on our day out in london looking at that booklet around the restaurant table, flanked by wallpaper bookcases and incompetent italian waitstaff? and now not only is our big day out in london over, but so is the trip to tate modern you were scheming as we all sat around the table making my short film. time goes so fast!
i’m glad you had fun. i’m gonna go look at the pictures now.