Friday, August 19, 2016

In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy.



My search for cleverness continues..........
Me & Cath went into Manchester's Whitworth Gallery to see an exhibition called   In A Dream You Saw A Way To Survive And You Were Full Of Joy
To be honest, I knew little about it,but I just loved the title! It was an electic mix of curated  stuff.
I mean,Andy Warhol and Eric Gill in the same space !

The first Gill sculpture I,ve ever seen...it was the highlight for me.Brilliant.
I'm still not a big fan of The Whitworth.It brands itself as an International Gallery.Very well healed visitors....it could just as easily be in London or New York. I get no feel of Northernness or Manchesterness.Frankly ,it feels a bit up itself!
 All those comforable people coming to look at photos of homeless street sleepers, while outside the beggars of Manchester seem to multiply each time i visit the city.
https://zimnoch.smugmug.com/Dropbox/In-A-Dream-You-Saw-A-Way/

4 comments:

Martin said...

I have to work hard so that "comfortable people" don't ruin a gallery experience for me. I've found it helps if I regard them as exhibits.

tony said...

Indeed Martin. (a bit like "church") we try & conform to the ritual of the congregation .
We moderate our speech & gaze knowingly at the canvas or pot .......

It would be quite funny(tho I would have the balls myself to do it) to stand in front of another visitor & comment on their appearance.Pass judgement on their shoes or haircut!
"OOOh ! He looks a proper picture!" (in my best Les Dawson voice)

Martin said...

In the Whitechapel Gallery, 20 years ago, I was so fed up with the snobby company, I started to appraise a cleaner's trolley. Lots of chin stroking and free flowing aesthetic vocabulary, only to have it pointed out to me that the trolley was in fact an exhibit! Oh, how I laughed. :-/

tony said...

Funnily Enough...The Whitechapel was the first gallery i ever visited.1971 .Dali ,i think......God Knows What His Trolly Would Have Looked Like......

Phil

  Phil died early in the morning of Sunday 17th March at home with his Wife Iris by his side.