Year 10 GCSE Art & Design students draw from bunk beds to shelter from the rain
On 3rd December Year 10 GCSE Art & Design students visited Tate Modern, where they experienced Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s Turbine Hall installation; TH.2058 and explored the Idea and Objects and the Material Gestures Collections.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s Turbine Hall installation TH.2058 looks 50 years into the future, as inhabitants of London take shelter in the Turbine hall from never ending rain mixed with a collection of homage’s to artists who have exhibited in the past in the Turbine Hall.
The students wondered the installation, crawling under giant sculptures of flowers and spiders and climbing into bunk beds to draw what they could see! There was plenty discussion whether what they were experiencing, particularly the bunk beds, was art or not and whether it was important whether the artist made all the pieces themselves or employed assistants.
Next the students visited the two collections, paying particular attention to the works of Paul McCarthy, Sophie Calle, Martin Creed and Marlene Dumas. Many students found McCarthy’s work shocking and ‘rude’, Creed’s work clever but pretentious, Dumas’s work beautiful and Calle’s work fascinating. There were also comments made by students at the end of the trip that despite enjoying their visit, they preferred the Brit School’s Strand Visual Arts & Design Year 13 show, which was quite a compliment to Year 13, (well done!).
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s Turbine Hall installation TH.2058 looks 50 years into the future, as inhabitants of London take shelter in the Turbine hall from never ending rain mixed with a collection of homage’s to artists who have exhibited in the past in the Turbine Hall.
The students wondered the installation, crawling under giant sculptures of flowers and spiders and climbing into bunk beds to draw what they could see! There was plenty discussion whether what they were experiencing, particularly the bunk beds, was art or not and whether it was important whether the artist made all the pieces themselves or employed assistants.
Next the students visited the two collections, paying particular attention to the works of Paul McCarthy, Sophie Calle, Martin Creed and Marlene Dumas. Many students found McCarthy’s work shocking and ‘rude’, Creed’s work clever but pretentious, Dumas’s work beautiful and Calle’s work fascinating. There were also comments made by students at the end of the trip that despite enjoying their visit, they preferred the Brit School’s Strand Visual Arts & Design Year 13 show, which was quite a compliment to Year 13, (well done!).
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