I visited this featured exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was great to see so many different artist works of postmodernism in one huge gallery space. As a viewer I felt blown away by the amount of different objects there were in this space, from flat 2D works such as posters to household objects, abstract sculptures, video and 3D simulations. The gallery space itself felt very postmodern, dark walls and dimmed lighting with neon signs leading the public from one room into the other. I think it’s really important to get the space itself right, to suit what is exhibited and V&A got it right spot on!
There were soo many works that I liked it was hard to just pick a few to write about. An amazing poster by Paul Scher ‘The best of Jazz’ was one of them, my liking of typography and passion for the constructivism posters has drawn me to this particular piece. I like the simplicity of it, use of only three colours to screen print and the way it has been mostly concentrated on the type positioning of this promotional music poster. Another piece of work I like was ‘Orchid’ by Robert Mapplethrope, which is a ceramic plate with a black and white Orchid photo print. The perfectly round and thin plate it so elegant and minimal, seems like less is more when it comes to this piece. I also like the way photography has been taken out of its original context and has been applied to tangible object.
Overall I thought the exhibition gave me the real feel of postmodernism and I saw a lot of works that were new to me. Where some works were great I felt like others were a little over the top and there was too much going on at once. I think in the future I would like to try using some sort of untraditional media to display my work, for example traditional printing method transferred on to a tangible object which would never be associated with printmaking.
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| "The Best of Jazz" Paula Scher 1979 |
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| "Orchid" Robert Mapplethorpe 1989 |