The oil portraits conjured awe, the sketches fizzed and the landscapes packed punch.
*****
Frank Auerbach @tate.
*****
My daddy had been showing these in 2D to his kids in class and wishes they could see the 3D.
Because there is so much texture… So much body to them.
*****
5 Colin Stars
Cheers,
Martin xx
They say:
“As poetic as it is political, her work investigates movement, exchange, transformation, resistance and silenced historical narratives.”
Blimey.
#emilyjacir @_thewhitechapel
We say:
Some words: photographs, newspaper cuttings, music clips, telephone recordings, letters, postcards.
Fragments of a life.
“Shortly before his death, Wael destroyed his poems and everything he had ever wrote.”
Cheers,
Martin xx
“The father, though not materially wealthy, regards the members of his family as his greatest possessions.”
*****
The enormous contribution made by immigrants to art in the UK is explored beautifully in this retrospective of the Ben Uri Gallery.
It goes to show.
The pictures on display are all different but all full of feeling.
If you take a look at the strokes of the brush in the oil works…
You see the extraordinary.
“From Eastern Europe to the East End and back again I am very much a product of this country.” Alfred Wolmark.
Cheers,
Martin xx
The capitals art scene quakes as this cultural Staffordshire Bull Terrier limbers up to deliver his verdict on #worldgoespop @tate.
Careers, reputations, assumptions and dreams could be shattered in a moment.
*****
They say: “The World Goes Pop expands the notion of pop art into a far wider geographical context.”
We say: “When a stuffed female with a tv in her stomach tells you that it really is “the last time” you know you’re in proper trouble…”
*****
Some words: fly swatter, lips, nailed, Vietnam, sauce, Romania, liberation, the American Dream, balls, violence, folky stuff, neon, mirrors and a broken heart.
*****
Love Delia Cancela’s ‘Broken Heart.’
Overheard:
A passing mother: “Like a jigsaw.”
A passing child: “Put it together.”
*****
5 Colin Stars
Cheers,
Martin xx
What’s this then?
An egg and a hoody.
Yeah, the clothing hoody.
Funny business.
*****
Prem Sahib @icalondon.
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And, lo! A detergent bottle in blue Perspex.
What can be the meaning of this?
*****
I think there was an undercurrent.
Don’t ask.
It costs 1 pound.
Cheers,
Martin xx
“Memory exists only when it is recalled.”
******
#aliceanderson @explorewellcome.
“Everyday things that surround us, that will outlive us, that we often barely acknowledge.”
Everyday things mummified in copper wire.
Everyday memories preserved on social media.
Some words: copper, coppers, car, coke, guitar, canoe, glasses, iron, bike, speakers, TV, phone, laptop.
Etc.
They say:
“With this exhibition Alice Anderson shows that even those objects that ‘speak’ to us because of their familiarity are fundamentally altered by our experience of time. Anderson’s invitation to create a social sculpture will enable visitors to discover both the unstable nature of memory and its profoundly creative potent.”
We say:
“Really, really good.”
Cheers,
Martin x
It’s nice to be led.
It’s nice to be told about things.
It’s nice to wander round London on a warm evening.
****
South London Art Map last Fridays.
They do a little tour of lesser know galleries you see.
Cheers,
Martin x
It’s nice when things are paired together beautifully.
Bangers and mash.
Gin and tonic.
Horses and carriages.
Love and marriage.
Americans and Englishmen
And music and art.
*****
You see that’s what they’ve done here @nationalgallery #soundscapes.
Some words: A lake, choirs, skulls, electronica, The Tudors, monks, orchestras, John the Baptist, ballet, Jesus, bathers, another lake.
I wonder about the invigilators hearing the same music and looking at the same paintings over and over again.
They are beautiful the pairings but… All day.
The Cezanne was my favourite.
All haunting.
Cheers,
Martin x
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye@serpentineuk
“Painting for me is the subject.”
*****
Some words: I think she’s a good painter and quite clever but I don’t like them.
Ok, I like the way she does the eyes and I like the parrot.
Cheers,
Martin x
I like the tube strike.
Leave early.
Pay a cheque in or something.
Go to an ‘off west end’ gallery or something.
Perhaps that’s not the point.
*****
First lets do the exhibition @_thewhitechapel that wasn’t so good…
Corin Sworn (good name)
Some words: big fat brown rod, decanters, mice, robes, fairy lights… You get the picture.
Sort of 3 Colin Starsish.
Now the really good one:
Rivane Neuenschwander.
Some words: Ebola, fear, clowns, guns, knives, thunder, God, fear, children’s clothes.
Sounds good, right?
5 Colin Stars.
Cheers,
Martin xx
