I went to see some shows recently - Gerard Richter at TATE Modern and Wilhelm Sasnal at The Whitechapel Galley. I thought that they were both really good, but i prefer Gerard Richter.
This is mainly because of his photorealist paintings. I thought that they were amazing as they didi not seem to be paintings at all. I also thought that the layout that the exhibition had was good, as in the same room there were different styles of works by him, so it was easier to intake the show.
But the wilhelm Sasnal show was good as well, i really liked the colours that he used in his works - they are mostly pastel and quite subtle.
At the Whitechapel gallery there also was a work by Rothko that i really liked as well. The colours of his works are amazing, but the feeling that you get when you look at the painting is something different. I think that Rothko's paintings are quite agressive in a way that you really feel diminished looking at them or, at least, that is my feeling.
Another work that i really liked in the gallery was an installation using lights and mirrors by Josiah McElheny. It was really beautiful and soothing, as you walked past the mirrors that would show you some shapes that would come alive as the coloured projectors hit them. Also i thought that this work goes really well alongside the lecture that we had the other week - "Conceptualism and Context". I thought that in a sense, The work was conceptualist as it was made so, the experience would be different for every person and it depended on the way you look at the work as well.
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