Visions of War Above and Below
Nice exhibition
at the Imperial War Museum contrasting images of war from above and
underground.
Closes on 25 September 2015
The theme was a
little contrived but it was a reason to show some great images. It also gave a
chance to draw in more up to date images and not just to use First and Second
World War pictures.
I loved the
Richard Carline which greeted you as the first work. It showed Damascus from
the air and combined a detailed image with wonderful zig zag fields with wisps
of clouds moving across it. I liked
Paule Vezelay’s picture of a barrage balloon in which she say surrealist
shapes.
I loved a hang of
Francis Dodd and Ravillious pictures of inside submarines together as both
artists included a lozenge shaped window one looking in and one out.
Modern works
included pictures of drones as birds a good video installation at the end by
Bashar Alhroub, a view of a market he had moved as a child in Palestine which
was now cover with mesh to keep out things being thrown in from a nearby Jewish
settlement. He had filmed the mesh from below as he walked round and this was
projected onto the ceiling.
Closes on 25 September 2015
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