Tag Archives: london

KICK

 Victoria and Albert Museum. Shoes: Pleasure and Pain.

Some words:

Red shoes, pointy shoes, furry shoes, glass shoes, lovebird shoes, anemone shoes, surreal shoes, gold shoes, pompon shoes, beaded shoes, pink shoes, transparent shoes, royal shoes, golf shoes, fairy tale shoes, french shoes, space shoes, Jimmy Choo shoes, rainbow shoes, platform shoes, silver shoes, silver platform shoes, wedding shoes, kick ass shoes, bubble shoes, tiny shoes, cad shoes, brazen shoes.

And, I nearly missed them, secreted behind a velvet curtain, a certain type of shoe.

All pleasure.

Cheers,

Colin, sorry, Martin x

 

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NICE

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.

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South London Art Map last Fridays.

They do a little tour of lesser know galleries you see.

Cheers,

Martin x  

  

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CONTROLLING

I think it’s doing a thing about class divides and a controlling state…

No not Britain since the election silly!

Wonderland.

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I did a political gag.

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Wonderland? The one what Alice went to.

Mummy and Daddy and Paul and Sarah all played the role of the lowlifes but some of their number got to eat tarts.

Swings and roundabouts.

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What was it like?

I’m going to use the word sumptuous to describe the sets.

And now I’m going to use some other words: worm, rabbit, hatter, eat me, drink me, walrus, carpenter, can’t take photos, queen of hearts.

You didn’t really have to listen to what they were actually saying except when they said “what is life if not a dream?” which is, like, true.

Oh I haven’t actually said it was interactive theatre.

Oh well. 

Having pizza now.

Cheers,

Martin

 

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THREE

Today it was three pounds which isn’t much really.

@tpgallery #photographersgallery

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What’s this? 2 shows you say?

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With a mixture of excitement and urgency we climbed the stairs, stopping off for a wee on floor 2.

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Then the excitement really starts.

First we explored the poetry in everyday suituations. That’s right… The photography of Shirley Baker.

Some words: black, white, matchstalk, men, matchstalk, cats, dogs, grans, grim, Manchester, hope, eyes.

Next we went to the bit called… We Want More.

I didn’t want more. It would have been too much.

Cheers,

Martin x

  

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MODULATION

What’s this then?

  

  

A pile of old bricks?

No silly, it’s a modulation of space in relation to your own body.

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There is a lot of stuff @_thewhitechapel #londonopen2015.

Some words: bricks, nudity, pottery, mud, lovely water colours, feelings, neon, stones.

Cheers,

Martin x 

 

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TONIC

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.

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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

  
 

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PARROT

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye@serpentineuk

“Painting for me is the subject.”

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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

 

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UNTITLED 

Agnes Martin @tate

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Some words:

I love the whole world

Happy holidays

Mid winter 

One that looks like a face

Buds

Beach

Heather

Starlight

The Heavenly Race

The Garden

Burning Tree

Dominoes

Islands

Schizophrenia 

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Untitled

Untitled #14

Untitled #12

Untitled #5

Fiesta

Rain

Oo a rhombus

But of purple

One that looks like an alien

“Titles such as Summer or The Peach might be seen to allude to the beauty of nature.”

Homage to life

Cheers,

Martin xx

   
  

Shel Silverstein, ‘The Missing Piece.’

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HISTORY 

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.

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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 

 

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CONTAINS FLASHING LIGHTS

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.

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