Pop Life @ The Tate
Pop Life reviews really are half-half. Some are extatic. Others are scandalised with the shallowness of modern art, the eccentiric prices labelled by the artists (though they seem to forget the extraordinary production price for some of the work such as Murakami’s).
Forget it all. Go there for yourself. Enjoy the colourful bibbles of happiness. Enjoy seeing some real Warhol close. Travel through time with the Hirst pieces, golden butterflies, diamonds, sheep suspended in time and space (Have a look at his new paintings @ The Wallace Collection, free!). Lose your balance in the Keith Harring room. Dance with Kirsten Dunst, pretty funny in this Japanese style video clip. Check your make-up in Koonz’ shiny inflatable rabbit. Fall in love with Murakami’s crazy manga art.
Should an artist live for his passion only? Can’t he be a businessman too? To which point do you sell? Do you sell yourself if you put too much money in your pocket? The again who is the most absurd, the vendor or the buyer?
No, no, believe me. Push the philosophy aside. Be superficial. Enjoy the humour, the flashy colours, the esay side of those works. Add a little pop to your life. The show does bring a happy feeling and that’s treasurable enough these days!
Note to parents: 3 rooms are not accessible to under-18, the content being very pornographic. The rest was considered super cool by my 4 year old, who fell in love with the Warhol TVscreens and the Haribo colours of Murakami…
Pop Life
Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
£12
5 Responses to “Pop Life @ The Tate ”
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C´est la question de se laisser emporter par le pop art. Pas d´y mettre la philo ou le sens de critique.
J´ai adoré Coralie!
A plus
Elisa -
Je suis impressionnée par la rapidité de production de cet article
moins de 12h!!
tu m’as en tout cas donné envie d’aller voir cette expo psychédelique!! -
je suis passée en coup de vent à Londres le week-end dernier et j’ai vu qu’il y avait cette expo.. Too bad, je n’avais vraiment le temps de rien
Vivement mon prochain passage, pour une expo et un thé peut-être ?
Encore bravo pour ton blog, il est plein de peps ! J’adore ! -
Chocoralie says:
Elisa: tout a fait. Il faut parfois apprecier les choses pour ce qu’elles sont d’abord, pas pour les interpreter!
Celine: l’avantage de faire une nuit blanche… Mais la, pause jusqu’a jeudi soir.
Luciole: l’expo est la un bout de temps. Tu auras peut-etre le temps de la faire? Un the et un expo la prochaine fois? Avec grand plaisir!
[...] Hirst is a kind of modern philosopher. He plays with death as a theme, juggles with skulls whether splashed with colours or covered with diamonds, questions the fragility of life by crushing butterflies in his work or by creating rows of perfect circles. You’ll see a few examples @ the Pop Life exhibition @ the Tate [...]