Wednesday 18 July 2012

'Thursday 10.00 Tate Britain‏' (posted on 18/7/12)

Camberwell College of Arts' MA Graphics students Dylan (left) and Nikos (right)
at Sketch's toilets. Photo by N. Georgopoulos



















Last Thursday (12/7) we did a very interesting full day Gallery tour in London starting from Tate Britain at 10.00 in the morning as part of our final show research and planning. The tour included: Patrick Keiler's exhibition at Tate Britain; Bruce Nauman's sound installation at the ICA; a retrospective by Jenny Holger; a stencil by Banksy painted on an alley; a visit at a sort of conceptual restaurant called Sketch (photograph). The second half of the itinerary was spent at Antony Pearce's studio (fellow student at Camberwell) as well as visiting 2 exhibitions held at Victoria Miro.

Personally, I was much more interested in the environments within which the exhibitions were carried out rather than the exhibitions themselves. In particular, I was mesmerized by Victoria Miro both interior as well as exterior space. What is more, the most impressive thing was Sketch's futuristic Clockwork orange-inspired toilets (photo). Having said that though, I have to say that I was highly intrigued by Patrick Keiler's sort of 'weird' concept for his exhibition, which was about displaying his own work in conjunction with other pieces from the Tate collection. An endeavour that approached narrative in a very interesting way -I think.

Nikos Georgopoulos,
London,
July 12

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