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Tate Liverpool 2018 (semester 2)

jessica-watson-97
Apr 10, 2018
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During the Easter holidays I was able to travel to Liverpool and visit their museums and galleries. I have visited the Tate Liverpool before when I was in my first year of university. The exhibitions and shows have changed since then but the overall feel of the gallery has remained the same.

The gallery featured several different shows but the main show for me was 'Ken's Show; Exploring The Unseen' . This show featured work from an enormous amount of well established artists including Rothko, Turner, and Hodgkin. The ability to see all of these artists in one show was truly breath-taking. While touring the Tate, I was even able to hear the curator of the show, Ken Simmons, talk about how and why he placed certain pieces in certain places. He explained that the work couldn't just be placed where it looked best but also how the placement would affect the public. My favourite pieces from this show were Mark Rothko's 'Light Red Over Black'. He was initially was going to have the Rothko on an end wall but decided to have it in the centre. This was so it could command the room and be the first piece that the public saw. The attractive quality of the Rothko draws viewers into the exhibition space. I believe that doing this set the tone for the entire exhibition. It let us know that this was a place of calmness and was not going to be a show full of wild, chaotic art.