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.
The Tanks
Tag: London
The Red Moon
Hanging in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern, El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is immense.
Spring, Shard, and Cranes
Looming London
Petals
Saw this sitting in the St Dunstan’s in the East garden.
Blog Note
So backed up on pictures to post I’m going to start posting twice a day for a while. Look for my next in about 6 hours…
Green Room
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.
Bathroom Humour
On the left, Duchamp’s famous urinal at the Tate Modern in its protective case. On the right, some comedian signed the toilet seat cover in the men’s room stall at the Whitechapel Gallery in East London.
Street Art
Creature Comforts
Seen from the bus window on our way from Hamiltons Gallery in Mayfair to the really excellent Street Life exhibit at the David Hill Gallery in Ladbroke Grove.
Move Towards the Light
Nick Waplington Shadows and Skylight
Another gallery tour in London a few weeks ago, including Nick Waplington’s Living Room at Hamiltons Gallery in Mayfair.
Under Construction
Un/Masked
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.
We have arrived
After Richmond we walked through parts of Clapham (see more below).
Richmond Reflections
The day after the gallery visits we went into London again to check out possible neighborhoods, starting in Richmond (see below).
Apothecary
The final stop of our London gallery visit (way back on 6th March) was the Wellcome Collection for The Cult of Beauty exhibition. Additional couple of images below, including the obligatory reflected self-portrait (click them to enlarge).
Parakeets
After the Serpentine Galleries we walked back through Hyde Park to the Lancaster Gate tube station, not too far from where I lived in Bayswater in the ’80s. We were stunned to see a lot of parakeets fluttering around until one of our Indian classmates explained to us that they had arrived here some years ago, escaping the homes of Indians in England who had brought them from someplace in India where they’re common.
Curved Space
Outside the Serpentine Gallery North I spied their interestingly shaped café against a leaden London sky.
I Mean Me
After the Refik Anadol exhibit (last post) I exited through the gift shop where, once again, I found a gallery opportunity to photograph myself.
Unreal
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).