I went to the Tate Britain last week to see the Turner Prize exhibition, I actually really enjoyed this exhibition. I loved all of the work from these artists, and found it really hard to choose my winner of the Turner Prize. I really liked Dexter Dalwoods work, the bright colours of his work stunned me. I overheard a man saying that Dalwood took drugs which made him see different colours which is why his work is so colourful. I know you shouldn’t take drugs and I never will, but its made his work really interesting I think. One of my favourite pieces of Dalwoods work is Burroughs in Tangies- 2005, I just really like the composition of this piece and I love the colours used. A very strong body of work I thought.
The next Artist was a group called The Otolith Group, this is the one body of work that I didn’t really get because, I got confused by all the TV's showing films, and I didn’t really get the story. It was a dark piece and I'm quite colourful I think so this piece wasn’t for me unfortunately! Oh well!
Angela De La Cruz was the next artist I saw and her work I thought was really interesting as her work starts of as paintings and then she uses violence to distort the image- crudely broken, ripped or folded in on themselves, placed in corners. This pieces of work I found really interesting to look at, the idea of working with mass and weight is really interesting. I really liked the piece Deflated 1X- 2010, again I loved the colour of her pieces and there is a sense of fun in her work.
The last artist was Susan Philipsz and her work was an aural piece, her three speakers and she was singing a song called
Out of the four artists for the Turner Prize, I really don’t know who will win and I cant really decide either. I have to say I'm really torn. I love the colour of Dalwoods work, I didn’t really understand The Otolith Groups work, De La Cruz's work I really enjoyed because of the colour and use of different materials, but then I really liked Philipsz work as its really different and I got the message portraying. So I have to say I think Susan Philipsz work should win.
I really enjoyed this exhibition! Then when I came out of the exhibition I had a text from my Dad asking me to lunch! YUMMY and a really good day!!!
Then that night I texted my brother at 2am and asked if he wanted to go to the V&A's exhibition Shadow Catchers, because he's doing photography at A-Level so thought it would be useful! So he came up to
The exhibition was really different to what I expected and I actually really enjoyed it. It was work about creating a photograph by creating a photogram.
The first artist I saw was Pierre Cordier, and I didn’t really like this work, it was different and I didn’t actually like it. He used the simplest form of chemigram which involves the application of photographic developer and fixer to gelatine- silver photographic paper, using chemicals like watercolour. He creates dark areas, while fixer creates lighter tones.
The second artist was Gary Fabian Miller, his work I actually really liked. His process started in 1992 when he turned to making abstract images in a dark room using only glass vessels filled with liquid, or cut-paper forms to cast shadows and filter light. His work involved colour which I thought was nice to see. One of the pieces I really liked was called Breathing in the Beechwood, homeland,
Susan Derges I thought her process was really interesting, in 1990 she used the photographic paper in rivers and using moon and flashlight to create the exposure which I thought was a really interesting process and I really liked the work she produced. One piece I really liked was called
The last artist we saw was Adam Fuss, and he was my brothers favourite artist of the exhibition. His work concerns the discovery of the unseen: it works with time and energy and not with material form. There was a piece called Untitled but it was a snakes tail and the photogram was just amazing, it looked like a snakes shed skin, was great.
I really enjoyed this exhibition it was really interesting but also I enjoyed it as I wasn’t on my own for once in an exhibition I was with my brother which made it even better!!!! YAY!!!!!!!
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