Went and had a snoop around White Cube in Mason's Yard which is located in the centre of London near Jermyn street not far from the Royal Academy in between Piccadilly Circus and Green Park and near Fortnum and Mason so again we are talking about an expensive area. It's really accessible based in a courtyard. Mason's Yard used to be the home to the Indica Gallery where John Lennon and Yoko Ono met, not far in 13 Mason Yard was the Scotch a major hang out for music events. Jimi Hendrix played there when he first came to London, they have now changed the name of the venue. It's very different to how it used to be in the 1960's in the times where there was buzz in the air and a lot of things where happening. I mean the White Cube in Mason's Yard looks again sleek and stylish and it adds more contemporary art to the area but lacks in the 1960's party experimental element. Sadly it's all about business this days with many galleries. Anyway I saw the exhibition of the German artist Magnus Plessen. All the paintings are made on canvas using bright colours he used the same colour range and style in all the paintings. The bright colours added a playfulness to the work a theatrical element to the fragmented figures. The paintings look like collages: he turns the canvas 90 or 180 degrees as a way of getting away from an individual view point to create multiple and simultaneous viewpoints of flat surface. I felt that the paintings worked better in the downstairs room as the room was wider to accommodate his large paintings then the upstairs one where they felt a bit cramped.
Went and had a snoop around White Cube in Mason's Yard which is located in the centre of London near Jermyn street not far from the Royal Academy in between Piccadilly Circus and Green Park and near Fortnum and Mason so again we are talking about an expensive area. It's really accessible based in a courtyard. Mason's Yard used to be the home to the Indica Gallery where John Lennon and Yoko Ono met, not far in 13 Mason Yard was the Scotch a major hang out for music events. Jimi Hendrix played there when he first came to London, they have now changed the name of the venue. It's very different to how it used to be in the 1960's in the times where there was buzz in the air and a lot of things where happening. I mean the White Cube in Mason's Yard looks again sleek and stylish and it adds more contemporary art to the area but lacks in the 1960's party experimental element. Sadly it's all about business this days with many galleries. Anyway I saw the exhibition of the German artist Magnus Plessen. All the paintings are made on canvas using bright colours he used the same colour range and style in all the paintings. The bright colours added a playfulness to the work a theatrical element to the fragmented figures. The paintings look like collages: he turns the canvas 90 or 180 degrees as a way of getting away from an individual view point to create multiple and simultaneous viewpoints of flat surface. I felt that the paintings worked better in the downstairs room as the room was wider to accommodate his large paintings then the upstairs one where they felt a bit cramped.
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