I can’t help this, you understand it’s like a wobbly tooth I
just can’t leave it alone, what am I talking about here? This is about our
fairly new local art gallery here in the corner of Kent. What corner? Well
right at the bottom on the far right or as far southeast as you can go in the
United Kingdom or England.
With a contemporary art gallery you would expect a fair
amount of jokes about packed lunches and fire extinguishers being taken for
exhibits, but this, well it’s a different type of kidney.
You see most art galleries have a permanent exhibition and
then have visiting exhibitions as an add on, but our gallery, Turner
Contemporary Margate only has visiting exhibitions. The last one “JWM Turner,
Adventures in Colour” was a cracker, about as good an exhibition as you would
get outside of London.
But now, at the moment, they are changing the main
exhibition and for visitors to the gallery who turn there isn’t much to see.
Now this combined with the whole business of visiting a contemporary art
gallery, well it produces an atmosphere which as I say, I have to keep going
back to experience.
There is the art crowd, bald, bearded, bespectacled, intent
– the gallery staff who have to do the explaining – and of course the people
who just turned up to say how emperors own clothed contemporary art is.
You will probably soon see the comments on tripadvisor, but
the fact remains that the exhibition times are well advertised on the gallery’s
website, so visitors who turn up at the wrong time only have themselves to
blame.
Anyway my attempts to express this in paint are not so good
as you can see from today’s.
I would like to produce something expressive like “Caïn
venant de tuer son frère Abel” by Henry Vidal, but obviously visitors to TC are
not Cain and presumably haven’t just killed their brothers, so something a bit
toned down,
Anyway I turned around and started painting the view of
Margate, but this all went wrong when I got to Arlington as you see.
It was the light which so inspired JWM Turner, it just got
in my eyes.
Oh actually easier here is the quote of the relevant bit
from that blog post.
“The next Turner exhibition there is called Liber Studorium
on the gallery’s website, vide
https://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/liber-studorium and starts on
the 28th January, this translates from the latin as – the stud book with the
edge.
To begin with I thought this would be an exhibition of
Turner’s erotica, see
http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/erotic-art-exhibition-at-turner.html
I had hoped that some of the Turners Ruskin allegedly burnt had appeared and
there would be a first and possibly only showing in Margate.
However it seems this is to be an exhibition of prints of
his work, and as his erotica – bonfire or no bonfire, never made it into being
engravings, I am beginning to wonder if the gallery really meant to write Liber
Studiorum which translates as – studies book.
Anyway it’s either a book of sharp studs or a book of
studies and as I am in the book business I will have to look into this
one.”
I was sad to note that this has now been changed to “Liber
Studiorum, which translates as – studies book.” So it will be all about the
introduction of the rocker, unfortunately not in Margate but in fine art
engraving where it produces halftone.
Or to put it another way mezzotinto engravings, here is one
from my shelf as I am anticipating spring.
At least the Turner is free entry! Are you saying that KCC tax payers and UK tax payers by way of the Arts council are not getting value for money? If the Turner had to charge an entry fee than maybe they would realise that they would soon go out of business if some of the exhibits were poor.
ReplyDeleteNot really cranforduk, at the moment it’s the middle of winter and there doesn’t seem much for me to post about, I do however go out painting on my days off and I suppose as most people don’t I think putting pictures of the pictures on the internet interests some people. The counter on the sidebar, which is something I don’t really believe and have no control over as it’s a blogger app says this blog gets around 1,000 visits a day so I sort of feel obliged to write something. “Do you like my nice or not so nice picture?” seems a bit. “Do you like my tight sweater?” sic Moloco. So I go for something that I think is humorous, sad ain’t it?
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