Photographers Gallery
Jacques Henri Lartigue
Bibi

http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/

Aura Satz
Colour Opponent Process
and Harry Meadley
Level 1

at Paradise Row

http://www.paradiserow.com/

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Michael Landy's Saints alive

Saints alive was an interactive exhibition, almost like a little theme park inside the more serious, quiet, valuable collection in the National Gallery. The sculptures were big, loud and reminded characters from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, their faces dramatic, colours cartoonlike and the construction playful. The saints were self destructive and ironical, but also creative and fun.

Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Michael Landy: Saints Alive at London's National Gallery - video preview

Tacita Dean at Frith Street Gallery

I felt that there is a sort mystical quality to her film created by the repetition, sense of time and symbol of spiral. It is interesting how 35 mm film can be so different from digital. I believe I could actually see the chemical process of light and how it is changing. It is smooth and sharp at the same time and because of its qualities gives a feeling of reality.


Tacita Dean: JG Ballard, Robert Smithson and me - video preview

Exhibition visit
Drawing : Sculpture
at Drawing Room

Sculptures by Knut Henrik Henriksen

http://drawingroom.org.uk/exhibitions/drawing-sculpture

Trying to motivate myself to write 2 essays. I didn't manage to write the first one on time so I failed. I don't feel too bad about it. The second essay is harder and I can't fail, because then my Erasmus plans would not work out. It is very much like me to leave everything to the last moment and then just go crazy running around and trying to get everything done. I guess there is something weirdly enjoyable in getting in this very concentrated state of mind. Mate will help. Any time. And I managed to write and make everything for Erasmus just with 2 days, don't know what I was doing before, I guess I just forgot about it. Very unprofessional.  First essay almost done. Second one...
It is full moon

Ars longa, vita brevis

Art is long, life is short.

It is March again, second year in London. I have just turned 21. The magic age of becoming legally a grown up in all ways... It does not really change much unless I would take this little excuse to change everything. And I should. It is my duty.

Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite at the British Museum

The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone: Spazio di Luce

As I entered the gallery I came across with that I first thought was a hole hollowed tree, coloured gold from the inside standing on its cropped leg-looking branches.  Amazed  I walked around  the huge tree admiring it from various angles. Done my circle I got back and peeked inside hollow tree full of golden light reflecting from all sides.

Inspired by Voynich manuscript

Camden Town

Modern British Sculpture at Robert Bowman Modern

Charlotte Mayer "Crow" (1976)

Lynn Chadwick Second maquette for Teddy Boy & Girl (1956)

Dame Elizabeth Frink RA "Rolling over horse" (1976)

Bernard Meadows Maquette for large standing armed figure (1962)

Song Dong: Waste Not

Waste Not is not an exhibition to just walk trough. Looking at this enormous amount of collected things involuntarily make us think about the story behind specific objects that have drawn our attention. These objects are not cleaned as we are used to looking at collected objects in museums, but many of them are arranged in rows or neatly put beside each other. This all emphasizes the feeling of holding on to something, memory, grief and the presence of death.

The amazing Dale Chihuly at Halcyon Gallery

National Gallery-Sainsbury wing

Detailes noticed in various paintings.

Unknown Swabian artist "Portrait of a woman of the Hofer Family"- a fly on her headdress, might be a symbol of mortality

Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio "Tobias and the angel"- a ghost looking see trough dog by the feet of the angel, looking back at something, maybe at the fish, the dog might be the work of young Leonardo da Vinci

Piero di Cosimo "A Satyr mourning over a Nymph- a dog also mourning by the feet of the Nymph looking even more sad than the Satyr

Rogier van der Weyden "The Magdalen reading"- an eye catching white jar beside Magdalen, her jar of ointment indicating who she is

Cosimo Tura "Saint Jerome"- an owl on the tree branch in the right corner, it looks surprized like it didn't understand what Saint Jerome is doing.

National Portrait Gallery

I found the gallery very inspiring, because I am myself interested in people and making portraits Seeing so many different approaches and styles from so many artists helped me to think about my own works and how to improve and develop them.

"Self Portrait" by Patrick Heron. I love the way he uses seemingly random lines and abstract shapes, creating, building it up almost in subconscious, very concentrated state of mind. I also I think he is very good at colour,the right kind of contrasts to my eyes everything just fits. In a way the painting seems a lot like drawing, nothing is blended some areas are covered, but there are large areas showing canvas, that gives the painting a very airy and fresh look.

Julian Otto Trevelyan's "Self portrait" I find this one gripping for completely other reasons. I like the way how he seems almost to come out of the painting staring us with its mesmerizing colourful. He seems very concentrated and serious like waiting for something.

"Edward John Burra" by John Banting. I find this painting very memorable. At first I didn't think to write it down , but I couldn't forget the uneasy feeling and went back to explore it further. The man in the panting seems to be in some kind of closed claustrophobic room. I was interested what is that paper under his elbow and then i noticed that he is holding a dagger or a knife under the table. I also realized this might be why he has a cigarette between his lips and not fingers, he needs his hands for something else.

Barry Cooke's " Eduard James ('TED') Hughes Such and unusual use of oilpaints, he has almost created an impression of watercolour. I love the green hazy fish eyes and the fact that the painting was painted during a fishing trip. The backround also looks very much like water. I like how he has played with colours, especially the red nose.

Richard Hamilton by Tino Tedaldi I like the confidence of Hamilton, when showing a set of sugarteeth and his electric toothbrush and at the same time he has a he is posing a cigarette in his mouth for the picture. I also like this photograph because of Hamilton's interesting features and I thought of wanting to draw him.