14 October 2012
Edvard Munch uses colour in bold, joyous bands and loops. His compositions are less colourful in their subject matter! The scream was missing, but many of the 'other' favourites made it into the selection. Room after room of mysterious groups of people, huddled as if to hide something horrible. Faces look out from domestic scenes - you have walked in uninvited and surprised them. It's not all doom and gloom... His naive day-glo figures have a strange etherial quality, and he certainly knew how to capture drama, emotion and moments of sorrow. Good show as always form the team at Tate Modern. (Above - Self-portrait by a window 1940)
The yellow log 1911 - 1912
The Women on the bridge 1934 - 1940
Whilst at the Tate, we also enjoyed the recently opened William Klein + Daido Moriyama show. This is really worth a visit and was certainly very refreshing after wading through the work of Mr Munch!
You can explore modern urban life in New York and Tokyo through the photographs of William Klein and Daido Moriyama. This is the first exhibition to look at the relationship between the work of influential photographer and filmmaker Klein, and that of Moriyama, the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s.
William Klein - painted contact
Daido Moriyama - stray dog
And... to round off our trip to Tate Modern... How could we pass up an opportunity to go snoop around the newest and most talked about gallery space in town...? THE TANKS: ART IN ACTION - 15 weeks of performance art and live events.
The 3 huge concrete industrial cylinders previously held oil that fuelled the turbines of the former power station, but have lain empty since the building was decommissioned in 1981 and later converted into a gallery. Architects Herzog & de Meuron have created new spaces for art and performance... the resulting space is striking, disorientating and out of this world!
10 out of 10!