This piece is a part of selection chosen by Cornelia Parker from the Government collection at Whitechapel Gallery. The title of the exhibition is "Richard of York gave Battle in Vain". She chosed the pieces and arranged them carrying in mind the colours of the rainbow. For me this was the first thing I noticed - that the works created a composition of colours. It made me look the exhibition as one piece - a whole, even though the works she selected were different in all ways concidering the era, style, subject etc. Only later I concentrated on the pieces seperately and found they were not only parts of the colour composition, but had their own say. But exhibition is not only about the rainbow. It is also a hint to political spectrum as the blue works are on the right and red on the left leving the rest in the middle.
The painting I chosed to examine is "Blue Tangle" by Kenneth Martin. I like that the painting because on the one hand it is supposed to be a tangle, confused twisted mass of something and you cant follow the lines to reach their destination, they just disappear into each other, but on the other hand the tangle has its composition, where all the twisted and seemingly chaotic lines have their own place where they perfectly fit This makes the Blue Tangle enjoyable to look, the fact that you can't follow or actually understand, but that the lines create a composition with more and less intense or clear areas. It is more like an abstract feeling and doesn't make me think about something else than the construction of the the tangle itself.
I think this exhibition is a bit different from her previous ones. She has done many more abstract installations like "Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View" or "Hanging Fire Suspected Arson"and also used usual objects to create mostly hanging- seemingly floating intsallations. Her other works include using objects owned by famous people, where she has created a new surruondings or for example used microscopic view like in "Marks made by Freud", where she made a macrophotograph of Freud's chair seat. I think the most obvious connection with her previous works lies in the use of something famous. In this exhibition she decided to use paintings that were already famous, but considering the way she presented them, she was able to make the exhibition herś not just collected works by other artists.
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