As a prequel to the new brief "chaos kicking off in January I decided to take the "visual communication" group up to Tate Britain to view one of its new exhbition entitled "art under attack". This is the first exhibition that has even displayed "iconoclasm" in British history documenting a selection of public artworks and the attacks on them. The exhibition was broken up into 3 individual topis: Religion, Politics and Aesthetics, each discussing the events, what sparked them and the artwork that was targeted.
The exhibition started from 1536-40 all the way through to 2000's with contemporary works from Kate Davis, John Stezaker, Chapman brothers and others. The exhibition was an opportunity to really gain inspiration from the wider sources, displaying to the group that you should be inspired by more than contemporary graphic design work, and that having a greater level of contextual knowledge allows a wider scope for creative response.
I thoroughly enjoyed the exhibition with its real vast and expansive range of work on show in the form of photography, installation, print and video. Its interesting discussing the work exhibited with what I would cal the "Google" generation and uncovering that image breaking and deconstruction in art etc has been active for centuries "Banksy wasn't the first i'm afraid". The team have now been set up with a challenge of sourcing a piece of artwork over the Xmas holidays that they "dislike" and will embrace a 1day brief to attack this piece in response to chaos.
Despite being told off by security for taking photographs please find below a selection of images "the ones I got away with". the exhibition ends in the 1st week of January so if you are off over the Xmas break I would recommend going and witnessing this showcase of damaged artwork.
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