Not just over half a century ago, you could have walked into an art gallery and confidently placed a bet that the only thing moving would be the Mona Lisa’s eyes. However, as time progressed and urinals, lobster phones and blank canvases came to be considered as ‘art’, it seemed inevitable that a space [...]
‘What is that even supposed to be?’ mutters a little boy as he surveys the work with youthful scepticism. It’s a typical British Tuesday morning and I am standing in the Artist Rooms at Tate Modern surrounded by a gaggle of school boys. I cannot help but smile at their mixture of enthusiasm, wonder [...]
There are myriad ideas that could be explored under the heading ‘Visual art in the 21st Century’; to thoroughly discuss and do justice to such a theme one would surely need to spend far longer behind the keyboard than I have on this occasion. Nonetheless, I have, admittedly somewhat arbitrarily, selected a few sub-topics [...]
Last year, the winning project of the IK Prize, ‘Tate Sensorium’, was all about synaesthesia i.e. sense interaction. The visitors were asked to ‘experience’ paintings while receiving stimuli from other senses, from hearing to smell, to taste. This year, the prestigious prize was awarded to ‘Recognition’, which, one might say, is all about free [...]
