Gallery Visits 24/1/15

Gallery Visits 24/1/15

Went to the Green Park area to view allergies for the weekend 

Good thing about this area is that there are lots of small little galleries around next to the big Royal Academy of Art so theres plenty to see and a wide range of artwork and style to view. 

As i was approaching the RA, I noticed this. 

The Swastika Sign on the walls of the Tate 

This reminded me of the theme Appropriation and the presentation we had discussing this sign.  

This is a good thing, because of this TOP group exercise we have going, it allows me to use continuously think about it outside of university as well, this means i see more in the outside world.

TOP is more effective to my perspective in the outside world of art as well as my practice more than i know 

Throughout history it has been appropriated and altered in more ways than one 

This was the first Exhibition we saw at the RA 

PACE LONDON

Hiroshi Sugimoto "Still Life" 

This exhibition consists of 13 large format photographs from the artists ongoing series Diorama series executed between 1976 and 2012. 

It didn't have much to do with appropriation nor my stye of practice 

Looking at how people interact with the scale of photographs and where they stand to look at what subject n the photograph.

The Alan Cristea Gallery - Christane Baumgartner " Totentanz"

I saw a little of how i may present my paintings in this exhibition. See how its 5 x 3 

I imagined a presentational layout with my paintings similar to this 

Other smaller galleries i visited on the way, some sold paintings, 

I was looking carefully at the labels 

The reasons for this is because i was planning for our Off Site Exhibitions this term .

I want an exhibition where we will sell our work 

Therfore i was looking at the layouts of the label 

What was needed to be put on 

Castle Galleries - FOX presents the films of MARILYN. The diamond dust collection by Simon Claridge

I walked by and i noticed an exhibition on Marilyn. This linked into appropriation and part of the video that we were making for the symposium. 

Decided to have a look

He used a medium in which i rarely see 

I know that a rendition of Marilyn's song was 'Diamonds are a girls best friend" 

Could this be the reason the artist decided to use Diamond dust as a medium?

Diamond Dust was "Perhaps most famously used by Andy Warhol" 

"Ive always regarded myself as a portrait painter - it's where my passion lies - and for me the screen shots of Marilyn from her Fox movies are the ultimate portrait. It doesn't get any better." - Simon Claridge