Cathy's Art Diary

Interesting exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery looking at contemporary art form Africa and Latin America. Who can resist a room being taken over by giants ants! I’ll admit it found it hard to stay in the room and the effect was creepy but close up the ants by Rafael Gomezbarros were quite sweet! I also liked a ball of bricks by Fredy Alzate. I wasn’t convinced by Oscar Murillo’s piles of rubbish with no titles. I found them just a bit lazy, give them a title and give me a clue what they are about! Similarly liked Dillon Marsh’s photographs of bushes on telegraph poles, but tell me more. Are they a natural phenomenon or has he made them? Reviews Independent Evening Standard    

Strange exhibition in the Project Space at Tate Modern. The leaflet said it “presents a response to the history of economic, political, military and foreign interventions in Central America” but I found there wasn’t enough explanation and it just left me confused and a little depressed. I did like film of the body builder by Humberto Velez but wasn’t sure how it fitted in. I loved a film of men dressed as building dancing to xylophone music but again had no idea what it meant. It was jolly but I am sure the unending xylophone music must have been driving the gallery assistant mad!