Tate Modern Exhibitions

Tate Modern Exhibition

Nam June Paik made "Bakelite Robot" in 2002 is made from 9 radios to create a robot, reminiscent of hi earlier works in the 1960's, broadcasting sci-fi movie and vintage robot footage, creating a sense of disorientation,
Cildo Meirelese's "Babel" created in 2001 creating a tower constructed from over 800 radios all to different radios to create an incoherent mass of language. Due to the context of 2001 and the symbolism of a tower, I would have drawn linked to 9?11 and the media it would have encountered around the world.
Eduardo Paolozzi created "Tapestry" in 1966 wove a geometric pattern from bright, vibrant threads that are reminiscent of the 1960's, following the ideas of pop culture and the patterns of industrial Mass-produced fashions. There is a great contrast between the old-fashioned process of weaving and the modern concepts behind it.

Media Network

Louise Bourgeois created "Legs" in 2001 and is made out of red fabric, suspended from the ceiling. The Three legs seem to depict a family with red being synonymous with blood and anatomy; the suspension also suggests a sense of dreaming or the subconscious.
She also created and untitled piece in 1996 that incorporated soft fabric with a metal frame, using clothes from her mother and her childhood, hanging them with bones, suggesting ideas of memory, childhood and even death.
Bourgeois's most recent work was a piece from 2006 called "10 AM is when you come to me" is a set of red watercolour and gouache painted on music sheets with the artists hands and the hands of her assistant.

Artist Room: Louise Bourgeois

Objects And Materials

Pinot Gaillizo created 'Industrial Paint' in 1958, using a painting machine on 74 meters of canvas to remove the artists hand from the work, challenging the mass-production of art and capitalism, giving a contradicting piece that his work is in fact mass-produced but also unique.
'Simmering was created in 1970 by Sam Gilliam to use the canvas more tactically - rather than a place to put materials, to actually use the canvas as such. The piece hangs different with each re-installation, creating new lines and tones with the explosive use of wet-on-wet painting,
Sheela Gowda's 2009 piece "behold" deals with the superstition of tying hair to bumpers for good luck. The hair was collected from Indian temples as pilgrims cut their hair and took vows,hand weaving the hai using traditional methods, creating a sense of awe and emmersiveness.

This trip to tate modern was meant to make us consider our own practice, expanding on our own horizons and taking inspiration from artists in the exhibitions currently on show. I personally enjoyed he raw, fluid chaos of the Objects and Materials Exhibition, whilst finding Bourgeois' themes of the body are fascinating, particularly in her rather muted pallet- aside from the red. I also found the New Media Exhibition helped Contextually frame my work in the modern age we live in.