Raven Row + Tower Bridge + Design Museum AND...Prince Albert Memorial
Today, i’d like to also include that my friend of DJ-ing awesomeness Andy Bowers has joined in on the Fun of a gerard-led VA trip to london today. Chops to you, Andy, for taking it up on, what should have been, a day off in harlow town for you. Hope you really liked Your First Time in the City of London!
To start things off, we headed to the first-attempt-closed Raven Row Gallery, were a group show was going on. the gallery is well known to bringing in more sound art and video art, even on the line of galleries we’ve visited. the gallery has had it’s foundation from a much older house and this shows as you walk through the spaces.
Some exciting paper constructed works harbored in one main section of the gallery, while other spaces lended to installation + sound art pieces at collaged notes and talks together. One piece even fed a mic to the room, with a connecting speaker outside the gallery. this was also done vice-versa, as the exterior of the gallery could be heard within the gallery. upstairs, there were a series of video and sound pieces, with a few 2D pieces as well.
We then headed across the Tower Bridge, a very monumental part of london, discussing it’s history and variations throughout the years. The other side of the bridge held the Design museum, which kept a very interesting retrospective of design in various media. this space also featured some fantastic work by Javier Mariscal in a retrospective show called “Drawing Life”.
The Design museum’s main exhibit featured a Timeline along it’s walls, as well as featured designers and artists that are groundbreaking in the Design field (so glad Zaha Hadid was in this). Many different ideas were exhibited here, including the Rabbit-trashcan holder, where it’s ears would light up for entry of trash in the bin and a surveillance room of cameras that took digital stills for a photo-mosaic one complied (think CCTV commentary- sharp, man. sharp).
Mariscal’s wonders in his exhibit really astounded me. I really admire his versatility in what he did. So many different mediums ruled over the space, those including collage, installation, video, sound, painting, sculpture, just anything you can think of, Mariscal has done it. Characters, like Codi, were fluent throughout the exhibit as they were within Mariscal’s career. It was just such a dynamic exhibit and brilliant introduction to a designer’s collection that I will be looking into for sure!
After the design museum, we took a city bus to try (the second time) to see if we could get into the Graduating show of the Royal College of Art. Unfortunately, the place was just closing as we were approaching it. Gerard had a plan B (usually a surprise) in which going to the Prince Albert Memorial would be a good alternative.
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