The heart of Luma is Gehry’s La Tour (the Tower). An interesting structure on the outside, it boasts more entertainments and interest on the inside. It was here that I saw Joel Coen’s curation of Lee Friedlander’s work. The images below are all interior shots (click on them to enlarge).
After seeing the powerful Mary Ellen Mark retrospective and Reflection: Japanese Photographers Facing the Cataclysm at the Espace van Gogh, I moved on to see some lenticular images by Mustapha Azerroual and Marjolaine Levy at the Cloître Saint-Trophime and, as is my wont, I photographed the space rather than the exhibit (see below).
Installation view of my work in the UCA Grad Show, ending tomorrow.
We visited the National Museum (of Art), Muzeum Narodowe. Once again I was more interested in photographing the spaces and the geometry than the art and artifacts. Click any of the images below to see them bigger.
We visited a museum dedicated to the Warsaw Rising of 1944 (not to be confused with the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, when the segregated Jews revolted). In this case, as the Germans retreated westward and the Russians advanced from the East, the people of Warsaw rose up. As usual, rather than photograph the objects in the museum, I focused my camera on the space and, of course, found a reflection of myself to photograph as well.
We took an initial turn around the populated end of the island, seeing the ruins left by Henry VIII, the castle in the distance, and St Mary’s church. Click any of the images below to see them bigger.
I’ve photographed this stair case on previous visits to the Tate Modern – it’s hard not to want to. Here are two more from my late March visit.
The moment I saw this, I thought Tower of Babel (or babble). Turns out, it’s called Babel 2001 by Cildo Meireles. You can read all about it here.
I took several shots of this installation but chose this one where I shot straight on, reducing the most central elements, perpendicular to the side I stood on, to mere lines.
“Conceived as a dynamic chess set, Institution vs. The Mass builds on [Anna] Boghiguian’s interest in the cycles of revolution and sociopolitical change throughout history.” see more on the Tate site…
An alternate take on the vas spaces and sense of awe created by modern art spaces, not totally unlike the cathedrals of yore, here at an area in the Tate Modern called The Tanks.
Disappointingly, the “free” Whitechapel Gallery wanted £12.50 for the Zineb Sedira exhibit we’d gone to see and there was not too much else (although the Andrew Pierre Hart was interesting). But there are always interesting spaces in galleries and museums. Watch this space for more.
Another gallery tour in London a few weeks ago, including Nick Waplington’s Living Room at Hamiltons Gallery in Mayfair.
Several mornings in a row, the morning sunlight flooding into the bedroom and bouncing off a mirror, glowed radiantly into the hallway.
In the evening of our tours through Richmond and Clapham we were thrilled to attend the private view (opening) of my course-mate Naoto Yoshida’s collaborative show, Un/Masked, at the Aperture (UK) Gallery in Mayfair.
From the Barbara Kruger at the Serpentine we walked to the newer Serpentine Gallery North to see Refik Anadol’s Echoes of the Earth, an immersive AI animation based on visual data of coral reefs and rainforests. See more below:
One room featured beanbag chairs in which you could lie and gaze at psychedelic projections on the ceiling. Looks a bit like a Victorian opium den (click any image to see them all larger).
Our next stop was the Serpentine Gallery for the Barbara Kruger show, Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You, which I had previously seen at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021 (and here, and here). While this exhibit was necessarily much smaller than in Chicago it had also been greatly updated and made more use of video and LEDs (see a few shots below, click them to enlarge).
