A Viset To London

Last Thursday, my college took the entire art department on a trip to London, to viset the Saatchi Gallery and The TATE Modern for the Gerhard Richter exhibition. the Saatchi was brilliant, i really enjoyed its curious ways, especialy the sculptures and many of the paintings.

Here are some of my favorate peices from the Saatchi Gallery....

Volker Hueller

Rauch Im Aug

2009
Watercolour, shellac

25 x 20 cm

 

Dirk Bell

Wolf Hamlet Madonna Elmex

2006
Mixed media on canvas

230 x 140 cm

 

André Butzer

Untitled

2007
Oil on canvas

340 x 260cm

 

Zhivago Duncan

Pretentious Crap

2010-2011
Wood, glass, mixed media

300 x 307 x 250 cm

Jeppe Hein

Mirror Wall (Video)

2010
Mirror foil, wooden frame substructure, vibration system

200 x 356 cm

Thomas Helbig

Jungfrau

2005
diverse materials

85 x 85 x 90 cm

Georg Herold

Untitled

2010
Batten, canvas, lacquer, thread and screws

120 x 420 x 165 cm

Thomas Kiesewetter

Matisse Blau

2010
Sheet metal, steel, lacquer

117.5 x 156 x 133 cm

Jutta Koether

Mède

1992
Oil on canvas

250 x 200 cm

 

Kirstine Roepstorff

All Possible Experiences (From the series "The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer")

2006
Mixed media collage

273 x 444cm

Markus Selg

Trauernde

2008
Plaster, straw, jute, metal, shellac

Artwork: 125 x 30 x 30 cm Plinth: 62 x 36 x 36 cm

Andro Wekua

Sunset (detail)

2008
Installation of 170 glazed ceramic panels, metal framework, steel scaffolding

500 x 800 x 82 cm

Thomas Zipp

Schwarze Ballons (1. down, 2. up, 3. S.K., 4a. tumb...tumb..., 4b.ABCE, 5. little U-light, 6. L.E.M., 7. O.E., 8. Elektrizitait)

2005
9 part installation

mixed media

Now.... onto The Tate...

WOW, what an experience theres SO much stuff there i'll never begin to be able to list, find or explain in any detail, so many wonderful paintings, especially the cubist exhibition (lots of Braque, Picasso, Gris), lots of installations and sculptures, i could spend months there, getting to know each and every piece.

The Gerhard Richter exhibition was phenomenal, i never apreciated his work having seen much of his work in books, magazines, websites and album covers (Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation) but in the flesh, his work is so powerfull, partly due to the scale which also lends the detail no photograph could.

so here are a few fantastic paintings of his...

Abstract Painting (726) 1990

Hedge 1982

Vienna

Abstraktes Bild (710)    1989