art and about

Been to see a few art shows recently.. there is so much on offer in London. Millie took me to a very exclusive word of mouth exhibition by innovative performance company PUnchdrunk entitled 'tunnel 228' - they have teamed up with the Old Vic (Kevin Spacey is the Creative Director at the mo) and created an underground mixture of art and live performance in the tunnels under Waterloo station. Going underground was very spooky and there were rooms that were completely pitch black but you just walked into them and then discovered some artwork; there was a pvc forest, water whirlpools in a perfect glass sphere, hooded human figures littered throughout the space setting a very dark motif. It was bloody freezing in the tunnel and you had to adorn a flu mask because of the industrial nature of the site - dust and shit.


Today I dropped into the Royal Academy of Arts to see the collection of Kuniyoshi's work - an amazing Japanese artist who existed in the mid-nineteenth-century doing colour woodblock printing. The work was amazing not only for the composition and detail from the artist but the craftsmanship of the block-cutters who could transfer such fine and intricate lines onto the paper. The Warriors fighting fantastical sea creatures were just amazing.