Tate Britain-Franz West
I visited the Tate Modern in London's Bankside during a trip home for the weekend. I wanted to ensure I made it to the Tate due to my extensive knowledge of the Tate Liverpool, I wanted to expand my horizons and visit other branches closer to home which hold more contemporary art available to the public. There was an exclusive exhibition of Franz West's large scale work which was extraordinary to witness first hand as it was extremely unusual and unexpected in a way.
Franz West was an artist born in Vienna, Austria in 1947 his main ambition was to change the look of art galleries and reject the white cube effect by disrupting the scene of the room with these abstract large scale pieces of work. In this particular exhibition you could see the collaborative qualities of the artists he had previously worked with during the span of his life as there was a large variety of artworks including vast amounts of sculptures, paintings, prints and photographs produced for those to interpret however they wished. I thought this was a key aspect that made this exhibition stand out to me as their was seating areas in front of many of the art pieces in order to encourage visitors to sit and interpret West's art in whichever way they feel fits.
Franz West passed away in 2012 so the design of the exhibition was partly produced by long term friend and fellow frequent collaborator Sarah Lucas, the gallery thought this was an important aspect to this particular exhibition as Sarah knew how West would have wanted the space to be presented. She knew how he personally interpreted his work in a curatorial form and used this advantage to create this artistic space for the public to view.
It was clear that the Tate Modern wanted to make this exhibition hands on and more accessible as they produced paper mâché replicas of his work for visitors to handle and move around as they pleased.
Situated outside of the Gallery there are several of his large scale sculptures on show to the public, these are peculiar pieces of many different shapes and sizes that hold the intent to shock and dazzle.
Overall, I really enjoyed this exhibition as it was extremely unusual and turned out to be something I had never properly witnessed before, it seemed to stimulate my mind as the colours were so bold and the designs were so out of the ordinary. Franz West was an important artist within contemporary art, thousands of new and aspiring artists have previously and still currently looked toward his work for guidance in regard tot heir own work.
Franz West passed away in 2012 so the design of the exhibition was partly produced by long term friend and fellow frequent collaborator Sarah Lucas, the gallery thought this was an important aspect to this particular exhibition as Sarah knew how West would have wanted the space to be presented. She knew how he personally interpreted his work in a curatorial form and used this advantage to create this artistic space for the public to view.
It was clear that the Tate Modern wanted to make this exhibition hands on and more accessible as they produced paper mâché replicas of his work for visitors to handle and move around as they pleased.
Situated outside of the Gallery there are several of his large scale sculptures on show to the public, these are peculiar pieces of many different shapes and sizes that hold the intent to shock and dazzle.
Overall, I really enjoyed this exhibition as it was extremely unusual and turned out to be something I had never properly witnessed before, it seemed to stimulate my mind as the colours were so bold and the designs were so out of the ordinary. Franz West was an important artist within contemporary art, thousands of new and aspiring artists have previously and still currently looked toward his work for guidance in regard tot heir own work.
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