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| Hayward Gallery |
I was tremendously excited by the prospect of this exhibition - but confess that I was a little bit disappointed. The pieces I most enjoyed were the simpler and (relatively) low key works, notably by Dan Flavin, David Batchelor and Bill Culbert; the first two simply beautiful and the latter wittily intriguing. Too much of the show felt like a procession from one fair ground spectacle to the next. Nevertheless, many of the pieces are genuinely spectacular, notably Carlos Crus-Diez's Chromosaturation, Cerith Wyn Evans, S=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E and Olafur Eliasson's Model for a Timeless Garden: the latter, a series of fountains 'frozen' by strobe lights is beautiful, but painful on the eyes!
I have, in the past, seen some wonderful James Turrell installations - but, though I put in the time for this one, the hoped for optical magic didn't happen for me.
A show well worth seeing but not quite the aesthetic sensation it might have been.
Read reviews by Adrian Searle and Laura Cumming.
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Dan Flavin,
untitled (to the "innovator" of Wheeling Peachblow), 1968
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| David Batchelor, Magic Hour, 2004-7 |
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| Bill Culbert, Bulb Box Reflection II, 1975 |
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| Carlos Cruz-Diez, Chromosaturation, 1985-2008 |
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| Cerith Wyn, S=U=P=E=R=S=T=R=U=C=T=U=R=E (‘Trace me back to some loud, shallow, chill, underlying motive’s overspill…’), 2010 (Francois Morellet, Lamentable, 2006 - in background.) |
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| Olafur Eliasson, Model for a Timeless Garden, 2010 (detail) |
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