Went to London for 2 days mainly go to see the English play against Hungry but also taking the most to visits the local art galleries/exhibitions and also going on the typical tourist attractions. We went to Saatchi art gallery to see the newspeak:British Art now and found it really interesting and loved a piece were Alastair Mackinven were he used portraits and used pins and scrunched paper together to make really interesting pieces of artwork.
Here are some others interesting pieces of work I enjoyed looking at down there! I
This piece of work above this really remind me of some tomato work were they have done something similar and but it on the window and photographed with typography on it.
Southwalk Centre - Went to see a exhibition which when i first saw on the leaflet i got excited about but then it all changed when i left. Was done by a guy called Ernestio Neto whos a Brazilian Visual Artist. He works seems to reflect a abstract minimalism and in photographs very beautiful! The exhibition was called 'Edges of the world' and was meant to be giving the feel and atmosphere of the different climates of the world such as tropical and arctic. He uses abstract forms to create this feeling by using material like stock-like materials using certain colours to create this feeling. I really did feel these feeling and did seem to make you feel go cold when you went to the blues and purples of the maze like art work but i was expecting more from it like more interesting shapes or pushing it further like in his other work than just stocklike material making tent shapes. I really did think and feel it wasn't in the right enviroment to showcase this work as i think it need more character to play with his story. When i was in the book shop i saw more of his work in more variations of settings in very beautiful building such as old crafted roofs like a st pauls like building or in a factory which gave it more of an impact that just in a white room!
Taken by me at the Gallery and below somewere of the internet were its looks so more effected!
Really never noticed it before but i really found the typography and detail on big ben really interesting and beautiful! Its Latin inscription saying 'DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM' which means O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First.
And was it built for football or architectural beauty?
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