Art

The Gutai movement

A few weeks ago I entered a room at the Tate Modern which housed reliefs (3D paintings if you will) from the 1950s from across the world. While one wasn’t allowed to touch, these reliefs oozed texture, you could feel them just by looking at them, a thrill for the senses. There were a few …

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Arty farty

I was speaking, not too long ago, to a lady at work. She said to me “I don’t get it, I prefer history museums”, after I had rambled on about the Space Shifters exhibition I had recently been to at the Hayward Gallery. There was awkward silence. I tried to explain why understanding modern art …

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