London - Current Exhibitions

Saw all this on Saturday the 29th. All photos my own. Spent the day running from gallery to gallery. And actually made it on time to the theatre that night - As You Like It at the Roundhouse, in which Katy Stephens was a brilliant Rosalind. Photos are mostly awful but a nice photo's not really the objective when you're being chased by security guards the whole time. The aim's more base, it's more like "quick take the fucking photo!"
Erik Van Lieshout at the Hayward Gallery:

The Erik Van Lieshout was just one video, maybe about half an hour long. Funny to watch. Again it's a shame the longer video I took isn't uploading, but this is a short one.  Can not wait for the British Art Show to start at the Southbank Centre on the 16th Feb.

View from the Saison Poetry Library:

 

What a pretty city we have eh? Even with a sky like that. We then moved along Southbank to the Tate Modern. I only photographed my favourites as I'd seen everything there before. Francis Bacon ahoy...I reckon this triptych is one of my favourites of Bacon's:

 

The Unilever Series: Ai-Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds. I find this so beautiful to consider. It sounds like part of an oriental fairy-tale, to fill a vast hall full of handmade porcelain sunflower seeds. Despite whatever else it means, and I think it means a lot, it looks to me like an expression of love. Anything this unbelievable can't help being inspiring.

Royal Academy of Arts was next on the list...We bought tickets to the Modern British Sculpture exhibition as well as the Art, Fashion, Identity exhibition but my camera ran out of battery by the time we reached the fashion exhibition :(. So, these are just of Modern British Sculpture. This exhibition hasn't recieved rave reviews and I can see why - it isn't particularly didactic or comprehensive...more one for the tourists. It's cheap thrills. But what thrills - the Damien Hirst installation is, unsurprisingly, hugely impressive. I kind of regret not eating one of those maltesers by Siobhan Hapaska.