Liverpool Biennial

Today I visited the Liverpool Biennial art festival. As my uni project 'Journeys' has just begun, I felt that this was the ideal starting place to document this project. The exhibitions were located in a number of different buildings, one of the stand out exhibitions was in The Cunard Building by Nadia Kaabi-Linke named 'Parkverbot', (looted art). This firstly caught my eye as the lighting was so exquisite, it set off so many thought provoking emotions, giving a sense of loneliness and abandonment. Also the texture of the park bench really stood out to me as the light reflected from what at first I thought were nails, showing a contrast between sharp and soft, light and dark. However at a closer look I discovered that these were not nails but bird control spikes, which sparks the imagination as to why this artist created this piece and what their message is.

However this was not my favorite from the variety of exhibitions we had come across. We also visited the Tate gallery, which I felt was quite inspirational, I especially liked the range of sculptures on display. Throughout my time at the Tate I spent a lot of time drawing and sketching some of the sculptures, doing rough sketches, tonal work, continuous line and blind drawing. These different types of drawing created some interesting images. What I found so interesting about these sculptures is that if you stood at a range of angles the sculpture didn't look the same once.

So, the most stand-out piece for me was by an artist named Daniel Spoerri, who has created a piece called 'Prose Poems', he created this piece using collected objects found in drawers or table tops. His aim in this piece is to create visual discomfort to the viewer. From studying the exhibition I feel that it has brought to light the fact that anything can be made into something great. The view point of the piece is what really caught my eye and which I feel is the most interesting point from the piece. The view point confuses the viewer, which leads you to want to know more, I felt that I needed to study the piece further to know its story. From the exhibition I think that I have realised that colour is not everything, something does not have to be bold and vibrant to stand out. Personally I would approach my own work in a slightly different way, from researching Candy Jernigan I prefer a more clinical way of setting out my work.