I saw two exhibitions today (New Years Eve) both about painting and the relationship with source imagery mediated through photography. It was good to see the ‘stuff’ of paint being used and celebrated (see last post about Hockney). The exhibitions were the Gerhardt Richter at the Tate Modern and then to the Whitechapel for the Wilhelm Sasnal. Both northern European and powered by political narrative. I hadn’t expected to, but also really enjoyed the Tacita Dean piece at the Tate.
The Rothko and the hot salt beef on rye in Brick Lane were good too.