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 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
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
What’s this then?
A pile of old bricks?
No silly, it’s a modulation of space in relation to your own body.
*****
There is a lot of stuff @_thewhitechapel #londonopen2015.
Some words: bricks, nudity, pottery, mud, lovely water colours, feelings, neon, stones.
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
I was just thinking to myself: “History painting has a reputation as a conservative art form.”
Then I’m told: “History painting has an undeserved reputation as a conservative art form.”
They are right @tate #fightinghistory.
*****
With all the loud marching outside this was right on the button…
A film on the battle with trade unionists at orgreave (a video display I actually watched) showed a fight with a Conservative government.
“It was winner takes all.. We lost and they took it all.”
In fact it was all brilliant. I found myself actually reading all the labels.
And after the shootings in Charleston it was interesting to see Richard Hamilton’s ‘Kent State’
“Too terrible an incident in American history to submit to arty treatment… Yet it seemed right too that art could help to keep the shame in our minds.”
Some reviews have said this exhibition isn’t very good but it is.
They are wrong and I am right.
Cheers,
Martin xx
So what do you think of this?
Load of old balls?
#supersymmetry @ a car park in soho.
Some words: no lift.
Cheers,
Martin xx
PS it’s something to do with molecules ok? Google it if you’re that interested.
Oo it’s a retrospective.
I’m never going to remember all these people’s names.
Oo some of them are famous.
20 years @Zabludowicz_Col Collection.
*****
Some of their words:
Hd video, steel viewing platform, monitor stand, paddling pool, cat litter, coloured cables
That’s just one piece.
Some of mine:
Cleopatra, rubber, Central Line, butterflies, Victoria Line, spam, Bakerloo Line, shag pile, buy my wife? legs, football, splats, is that Mick Jagger?
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“Do you continue to talk even when you know no one is listening?”
All the time.
*****
‘I kiss you.’
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Please remove heels.
Cheers,
Martin xx
