tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post8867054004342454655..comments2023-07-03T09:22:01.637+01:00Comments on tasting rhubarb: ApparitionsJeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08690685768980280402noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-62672617622224645092010-05-26T16:13:35.290+01:002010-05-26T16:13:35.290+01:00The exhibition is obvioulsy part of the London Col...The exhibition is obvioulsy part of the London College of Communication's end of academic year shows and celebrations and will thus be temporary - I don't know how temporary. As I mentioned, this is not the first time they have exhibited huge banner prints on the same walls. I recall one set of huge monochrome close-up photos of mouths and hands entwined in kisses. I liked that, but really, although the vast, windowless concrete slab walls facing a pavement with bus-stops and many passers by might seem an excellent site for visual art, it takes exceptionally powerful work to make much impact in this vortex of hideously negative energy.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690685768980280402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-60566233792960083682010-05-26T14:21:21.982+01:002010-05-26T14:21:21.982+01:00I have to agree with Dick, a wonderful concept - a...I have to agree with Dick, a wonderful concept - and incidentally, a wonderful post. I aught at The Elephant an d Castle for a while many moon sago. It seems to have changed a lot - but probably not much.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-88105891168843720492010-05-26T13:06:53.609+01:002010-05-26T13:06:53.609+01:00Jean, you've perfectly described a soul-destro...Jean, you've perfectly described a soul-destroying part of London. I used to go there regularly when I took an (excellent) course at the London College of printing and just to step out of the E & C tube station was to be punched in the head by the shocking ugliness and anti-humanity of it, an example of everything that's bad about modern urban planning - planning?? Anyway, bravo to whoever thought of putting those marvellous giant photos up there, like a silent protest. I hope they stay there.Nataliehttp://www.nataliedarbeloff.com/blaugustine.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-50401949931238023022010-05-26T08:43:02.748+01:002010-05-26T08:43:02.748+01:00What a wonderful concept - the imprinting upon so ...What a wonderful concept - the imprinting upon so desolate and dehumanised a spot of huge, still, motionless human figures. Palimpsest indeed.Dickhttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3406446365589143789.post-32848177704501532752010-05-25T20:35:04.255+01:002010-05-25T20:35:04.255+01:00It does indeed look very impressive. How sad that ...It does indeed look very impressive. How sad that it is poorly publicised. I remember the bleakness of th E & C, like a kind of waiting room for hell, almost, a non-place, it always seemed to me, contrasting with its colourful name.<br /><br />'Palimpsest' did seem for a time a rather over-used word, though it is an attractive one, both in the way it looks and its meaning.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com