"Forever Changes"
Apr. 21st, 2008 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningOn my way from a meeting in Glasgow last week, I took shelter from the rain in the very grand space of the Gallery of Modern Art. This wasn’t chance, though: I had seen a photograph in the Independent of a new installation by Jim Lambie, and I knew I wanted to see it. Hiding from the rain was just fortuitous.
I have seen Jim Lambie’s work before – the installation Zubop in Washington (this is visible to friends only), and Zubop again in Edinburgh.
The installation in Glasgow was new: “Forever Changes” – actually, a combination of several installations and artworks.
I loved it.
I loved it all.
The floor was wonderful.
The stacks of vinyl LPs were wonderful – stuck in cement. (In case you didn’t click on the links above, the title of the work, Forever Changes, comes from an LP by Love. I looked for it amongst the petrified LPs, but I couldn’t see it.)
The chairs and handbags were wonderful.
But most of all, it just made such a good use of the whole space.
Unfortunately, my photographs aren’t half as good as the one I later found on the BBC Scotland website: it won't let me show it in this post, so please click on this link to see it.
And here is the picture from the Independent that inspired me to get in get out of the rain in the first place:
Neither of these two pictures are credited – so apologies to the photographers, whoever they may be.
I have seen Jim Lambie’s work before – the installation Zubop in Washington (this is visible to friends only), and Zubop again in Edinburgh.
The installation in Glasgow was new: “Forever Changes” – actually, a combination of several installations and artworks.
I loved it.
I loved it all.
The floor was wonderful.
The stacks of vinyl LPs were wonderful – stuck in cement. (In case you didn’t click on the links above, the title of the work, Forever Changes, comes from an LP by Love. I looked for it amongst the petrified LPs, but I couldn’t see it.)
The chairs and handbags were wonderful.
But most of all, it just made such a good use of the whole space.
Unfortunately, my photographs aren’t half as good as the one I later found on the BBC Scotland website: it won't let me show it in this post, so please click on this link to see it.
And here is the picture from the Independent that inspired me to get in get out of the rain in the first place:
Neither of these two pictures are credited – so apologies to the photographers, whoever they may be.