an afternoon in london - so the wonderful Carol Fletcher
gallery carrollfletcher.com has a stunning
show by Franco and Eva Mattes 0100101110101101.org
its all darkness and the world is going to hell in a handcart with them holding
a mirror to our corporate greed filled faces but in a very calm way! - i love
their work - you have to admire the full on madness of their engagement with
our digital selves - manipulating our behaviour in the space - yes - best video
- men using tape to attach a fish to their belly and then watering them - or
maybe the one about the bucket salute! Onto the Tate and the private opening
for Tate members - well - the building looks space age otherness from the
outside but inside the rooms are oddly pokey above the 4th floor - stairs too
fiddly - lifts too small - nowhere to charge a laptop or phone and - the most
odd design 'decision' I have ever seen in my life - the majority of the windows
are covered by the bricks you can see from the outside. but the art was good - and what a huge view from the new platform - intriguing to see Rebecca Horn's actual textile pieces rather than just the images - a huge show of work that
explores the performative and another exploring ideas around space and
architecture has some excellent curatorial choices. as ever it is a joy to see
anything by Louise Bourgeois (except maybe the spiders) but there were some astonishing
textile limbs on display. then onto see a selection of the year 1 Chelsea fine
art students work in the
safe house gallery in Peckham - bob, darius, julia, kez, laila,
louis, lucia, mel, richard and qianqian - new exciting work - if you want to
see more check out bobbicknell-knight.com -
young people are excellent.
