“la Caixa” collection of contemporary art: Selected by Enrique Vila-Matas
Innovative exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery using work from the “la Caixa”
contemporary art collection.
This is one in a
series of shows which will invite a writer to select works from an art
collection and produce a new piece of writing based on them. It’s an
interesting way of highlighting unusual and less well known collections.
This show just
had six pieces but included a Andreas Gursky of an archaeological dig at Thebes
and a Gerard Richter from a series of back views of his wife.
There was a
lovely video installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster which recreated a bare
room with a video against the end wall of a child sitting on the floor with
silhouettes of adults and trees appearing. It reminded me of a Bill Viola in
its slow delivery and haunting quality. My favourite piece was this painting by
Miquel Barcela called “A Fistful of Earth” a stunning desert or moon scape with
built up rocks.
I did sit and try
the start of the piece of writing which was entitled as a novel but seemed more
to be descriptive writing about the works. I wasn’t moved enough to buy it.
Closes on 28
April 2019
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