Showing posts with label The Whitechapel Gallery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Whitechapel Gallery. Show all posts

9 October 2020

Art Angel Audio

 

I spent a warm afternoon walking around Whitechapel and Spitalfields a few weeks ago, guided by Janet Cardiff via an audio piece commissioned by Art Angel in 1999. 'Part urban guide, part detective story, part film noir, this audio walk transports individual listeners on foot through the streets and alley ways of Spitalfields, a historic part of London next to the City.'  The audio piece is great - disorientating and distracting in a good way! And I loved walking around the back streets of Spitalfields, something I don't do very often despite living so close. Very uplifted by all the colour of prayer matts, printed wax fabric, market stall dresses...
Click here for more information on the Art Angel piece.

13 March 2020

Radical Figures

Loved my trip to the exhibition 'Radical Figures', at the Whitechapel Gallery today. In a rather worrying current climate the trip offered some much needed escapism! This is a group show and focuses on the human form - well worth a visit just for the colour and vivacity of the work. 
Detail from 'Asger, Bill and Mark' (2015) by Daniel Richter

Detail from 'Lucky Beach' (2017) by Cecily Brown

One room explained the different artists' practice a little more - fabric scraps from multimedia artist Tschabalala Self, or postcards from Ryan Mosley's studio wall. Mosley once worked as a guard at the National Gallery and collected postcards from his time there.

Radical Figures is on a The Whitechapel Gallery until 10th May 2020