After the market we started on a hunt for galleries in the east end of London. The first gallery we went to was The Approach where we saw work by Gary Webb and Key Largo. There were three sculptures titled Miami Poo Pipe, Dorset Knob and Tom's Music.
The second gallery we went to was the Nettie Horn Gallery where we saw a video by Oliver Pietsch, titled From Here to Eternity. Even though we didn't see the whole film montage video, you can tell the artist was showing various documentaries and films. The purpose to me at first was unclear and maybe because we didn't sit through the whole thing, but i later found it was exploring human emotions and psychological torments. This makes sense for the sort of clips we were viewing.
The third gallery we went to was Ibid Projects where we saw the exhibit "Exaggerate the Classics" by Rallou Panagiotou. This was probably one of my least favorite gallery shows. The gallery where the work was being shown seemed like a sketchy basement and i didn't feel safe walking around in there. This may have been apart of the environment that was wanted, but to me it just seemed a poor choice. There was some nice sculptures being shown but many of them to me were very odd and i wasn't sure how they were all relating to each other.
The fourth gallery we went to was White Cube Gallery where we saw "Lamentations 2010" by Rachel Kneebone.When i first walked in i was excited to see some more ceramic porcelain sculptures. I was surprised to see how graphic they were but thought it was an interesting interpretation of the trauma of death, loss and grief. I do wish there was some better craftsmanship in the making of these sculptures. there were some cracks that you could see formed during the firings of these works, which could have been a desired effect but then i feel like they should have been exaggerated more.
The fifth gallery we went to was Parasol Unit, where we saw "Burlesque in Which We've Thrown It On It's Head" by Nathan Cash Davidson. Davidson who is a painter had very unusual paintings of people like King Henry VIII, Eliza Bennett and other popular cultural characters. Many of these paintings used bright and bold colors. There was also many architectural elements you could see in these paintings. I thought these paintings were interesting but not really the type of paintings i usually enjoy looking at.
The sixth gallery we went to was the Victoria Miro where we saw "Collages from the Independent 1999-2004" by Tom Lubbock and "Exhibition 17" by Francesca Woodman.
Lubbock's paper collages were crafted very well with a great combination of text and images. I thought the content of the collages were hard to understand though and not as interesting as the craftsmanship of the collages themselves. The collages are created through unusual and open newspaper briefs about political and social events of our time.
Woodman's photography is just amazing to me, i think the way she used her body as the subject and object in her work is done so well; how it shows stages of transformation, deformation, alteration and effacement. I also love how she uses her body and the environment around her in her photographs. In her photographs you can find her hiding behind furniture, doors, windows and others objects. The way she is playing with shadows in these often rough environments is also very interesting.
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