Safe Sex I recently went to the surrealism exhi…
Safe Sex
I recently went to the surrealism exhibition at the Tate Modern, ‘Surrealism: Desire Unbound’ and was strangely taken aback.
Firstly I had forgotten quite how obsessed this aesthetic was with sex and sublimated desires. Works such as Magritte’s ‘The Rape’ and Hans Bellmer’s fetishistic dolls still contain the all shock and power of disgust that they held all those years ago. However, what I found more surprising was the way in which these works and their counter-establishment claims had now been quite thoroughly absorbed into the mainstream of the cultural canon. This acceptance was rammed home by the healthy list of corporate sponsors that help finance the show.
Apparently, Mr Saatchi is opening a new gallery space in the old GLC building on the South Bank… Whether or not this will rival the success of Tate Modern is to be seen. But either way it would seem Britain’s art world has never had it so good!
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Last Chance To See - Hogarth,Proesch and Passmore
- Turning Up Paid a visit to the old Tate Gallery…
- Bollocks We’re All Angry Looks like I’m going t…
- Out of Town part 1 Call me a nancy Southerner b…
- Gili Good Show
