Next gallery was at the Tate Modern, here i saw two exhibitions and they both linked into my work in terms of their concept.
Firstly, I saw Marlene Dumas - The Image as Burden. Which consisted of vast amounts of paintings; all of peoples faces or the human form. Throughout the exhibition it is clear that the paintings are always human, often vulnerable, violent, suffering or dead. Getting the viewer to think about the subject of the paintings as well as who is the person in the painting and why? It is clear that she is a very talented painter, pieces that stood out to me include the portraits of Princess Diana and Amy Winehouse; captured in time never to change - even though they are both dead in present day.
This reminded me of my own mortality - even those with extreme wealth and knowledge of life still died, it happens to everyone. It also mad eke remember the news coverage of their deaths, they caused a universal mourning across the country, which always came across as strange to me as death is almost like a taboo that no one speaks about, so that no one gets upset, yet when these two died - everyone was speaking about it!
The last exhibition I went to see was called Conflict, Time and Photography by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. It contains works from artists and photographers from the mid-nineteenth century to present day. All of them looked at moments of conflict from different perspectives to consider the effects on the people and the places that survive through horrible events. This exhibition looks backwards, first images of straight after the events they depict, then made days later, then weeks, then months, and finally years after the event occurred. Its almost like a timeline of how a place has recovered and slowly you can see the evolution of that place. Its amazing to see a place in total devastation, in ruins, almost as though there is no possible chance of recovery turn into a beautiful land full of life through the years.
For me, the exhibition reminded me of the passing of time. Things/people die and are destroyed, only to be reborn again and rebuild themselves. This is the beauty of human life and nature; things will constantly die, just to be reborn again.
Firstly, I saw Marlene Dumas - The Image as Burden. Which consisted of vast amounts of paintings; all of peoples faces or the human form. Throughout the exhibition it is clear that the paintings are always human, often vulnerable, violent, suffering or dead. Getting the viewer to think about the subject of the paintings as well as who is the person in the painting and why? It is clear that she is a very talented painter, pieces that stood out to me include the portraits of Princess Diana and Amy Winehouse; captured in time never to change - even though they are both dead in present day.
This reminded me of my own mortality - even those with extreme wealth and knowledge of life still died, it happens to everyone. It also mad eke remember the news coverage of their deaths, they caused a universal mourning across the country, which always came across as strange to me as death is almost like a taboo that no one speaks about, so that no one gets upset, yet when these two died - everyone was speaking about it!
The last exhibition I went to see was called Conflict, Time and Photography by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. It contains works from artists and photographers from the mid-nineteenth century to present day. All of them looked at moments of conflict from different perspectives to consider the effects on the people and the places that survive through horrible events. This exhibition looks backwards, first images of straight after the events they depict, then made days later, then weeks, then months, and finally years after the event occurred. Its almost like a timeline of how a place has recovered and slowly you can see the evolution of that place. Its amazing to see a place in total devastation, in ruins, almost as though there is no possible chance of recovery turn into a beautiful land full of life through the years.
For me, the exhibition reminded me of the passing of time. Things/people die and are destroyed, only to be reborn again and rebuild themselves. This is the beauty of human life and nature; things will constantly die, just to be reborn again.