Exhibiton and gallery visits

I have decided to include my 3 favourite gallery visits/exhibitions from a trip on the 12th November 2013, these include 'Home Truths: Motherhood and Identity' and 'Jacques Henri Latigue:Bibi' from The Photographers Gallery, 'Saints Alive' at the National Gallery and 'Black Beauty' at the ICA.
I have taken photographs of the pages in my sketchbook relating to each exhibition as I have also drawn some aspects of some of the exhibitions and wanted to include them.

 

The Photographers Gallery

This image shows images from the two gallery's within the Photographers Gallery, my favourite of the two was 'Jacques Henri Latigue: Bibi'. What I liked most about it was how much I felt you could connect with his work, I also liked the different aspects he included, for example his stereoscopic images and  where you had to look through binocular type holes to reveal a photo as can be seen on the bottom left hand side of my sketchbook.
The other area within this gallery was that of 'Motherhood and Identity' which explores the representations of motherhood through a selection of different images by various artists. I found this exhibition to be quite moving, particularly once you have read about what the idea is behind the photos. On first look at them I thought that some photographs were quite strange and somewhat disturbing, however I now feel that I know the true depth and meaning for some of the series.

 

Saints Alive by Michael Landy

I found this exhibition very interesting as I had not heard of these Saint stories before, therefore I feel that I have learnt something from it. I also enjoyed being able to interact with it as you were able push the buttons that made the structures of the different Saints move. I think that this aspect of the exhibition made it more interesting as it shows mechanical structures and it was interactive.

 Lutz Bacher-'Black Beauty'

I also enjoyed visiting this exhibition as there was numerous installations to look at. The first one you see is what looks like black sand but it is actually coal slag, with a cracked mirror against the wall and a sculpture in the middle. This is accompanied by a sound work of Puck from William Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'. There was also a second installation that consisted of black AstroTurf going along the wall which was on the same level.
Bacher's work continued with two more installations, both in separate rooms, one consisted of a horse cut out with two lights that casted shadows on the surrounding walls. The other I found to be quite random as it displayed various objects such as a camel and dinosaur.
My favourite aspects of this exhibition was how unique it was, I also liked the area with the coal slag and that of the horse creating shadows as I liked how different it was.