Visited the Tate Modern while in London, always a stiumulating experience- and there's a good cafe too.
And yes I did see the Gilbert and George exhibition though now I wonder why I spent £9 to see one whole floor of the Tate devoted to the work of these two men. Two or three rooms would have been more than sufficient. Seems the public are voting with their feet too . This is not the blockbuster they had expected.
Do I really want to spend my Sunday afternoons staring at larger than lifesize images of giant penis' made of shit? and reading walls covered in graffitti?Anyway, I think it was mean of Gilbert and George to insist that the big slide is switched off during their exhibtion; only the smaller ones were in operation.
If art reflects the culture of its times then in a strange way the work of Gilbert and George holds a mirror up to our celebrity obsessed, consumer driven age. Yet in a curious way it all seemed to so..er…English and slightly old-fashioned. Oh well, back to Scotland…
