A friend of mine at St Martins took me to Shoreditch for my birthday. He had bought me tickets to a concert for an arts punk pop band from Brooklyn, and on route, visited a couple of galleries.
Honestly, I can't remember the first, but it was the opening night, so free Belgium beer and oil paintings..
Onwards we went to iniva to see a fine art exhibition inspired by an Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore:
Tagore's Univeral Allegories is an exhibition inspired by the life and work of Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941). It features individual responses from artists Anna Boghiguian and Goshka Macuga to Tagore's legacy, and suggests how his work and ideas still resonate for practitioners today. While shown in separate galleries, these two installations were conceived in relation to one another, with each artist engaged in the discussion and development of the other's work. Through these works perhaps it is possib to consider how Tagore's approach to art and literature as well as subjects including ecology, education, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, can be reviewed in relation to the contemporary world
In all honesty, I didn't get the exhibition. I just liked the vintage dairy pages and old family portraits.
ANNA BOGHIGUIAN AND GOSHKA MACUGA
TAGORE'S UNIVERSAL ALLEGORIES // CURATED BY GRANT WATSON
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