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This might get absolutely no responses but just thought I would share a nice experience and I’m very curious to hear if anyone else enjoys art exhibitions and for what reasons?
Having just taken @Suomi to the beautiful Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition at TATE Britain, I wondered if anyone else has had any standout art gallery moments recently? One of the things I don’t do as much as I used to is find new art exhibitions and randomly pop into things - and it gives me so much pleasure.
Has anyone else been to see this exhibition? Suomi asked me why I loved it so much and I think it’s because it’s in the same mood, palette and tempo as albums like Butterfly and Velvet Rope. It’s subdued in tone, very internal yet very expressive and quite singular in the artist’s explorations of identity, hints of queerness or otherness, and full of soft, warm and and sombre notes that are very enveloping and a bit like you’ve taken a lot of codeine.
Today I was also reminded very much of my very, very favourite artist, Paul Klee, because they both use the same hues of colour to communicate something like nostalgia - everything from pinks to blues and greens and browns share a grey or charcoal undertone, and the reds and yellows are very ochre. Again very Velvet Rope/Butterfly and it was nice to make those connections though this exhibition to find a golden line through some of my aesthetic and cultural preferences - including her ‘reading list’ of books that include some of my own favourites by James Baldwin and Oscar Wilde.
What are your favourite art gallery moments? X
Having just taken @Suomi to the beautiful Lynette Yiadom-Boakye exhibition at TATE Britain, I wondered if anyone else has had any standout art gallery moments recently? One of the things I don’t do as much as I used to is find new art exhibitions and randomly pop into things - and it gives me so much pleasure.
Has anyone else been to see this exhibition? Suomi asked me why I loved it so much and I think it’s because it’s in the same mood, palette and tempo as albums like Butterfly and Velvet Rope. It’s subdued in tone, very internal yet very expressive and quite singular in the artist’s explorations of identity, hints of queerness or otherness, and full of soft, warm and and sombre notes that are very enveloping and a bit like you’ve taken a lot of codeine.
Today I was also reminded very much of my very, very favourite artist, Paul Klee, because they both use the same hues of colour to communicate something like nostalgia - everything from pinks to blues and greens and browns share a grey or charcoal undertone, and the reds and yellows are very ochre. Again very Velvet Rope/Butterfly and it was nice to make those connections though this exhibition to find a golden line through some of my aesthetic and cultural preferences - including her ‘reading list’ of books that include some of my own favourites by James Baldwin and Oscar Wilde.
What are your favourite art gallery moments? X
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