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The Art Of The 60's Vanishes
September 06, 2004

So, Saturday we did the tourist thing [I even took pictures of London landmarks] and scooted round town trying to fit as much into one day as possible... Starting at the Tate...

I Didn't think much of Art In The 60's... Failing some works by Richard Hamilton, including "She" [left],

Frank Bowling and especially outstanding: Ian Stephenson's painting, 'Parachrome', which looks as if an aerial map of a great city has been showered with tiny pinpricks of colour [and was featured in the Antonioni movie "Blow Up"], a lot of the work was mediocre. Especially the sculptural pieces. I preffered the Real And Imagined Cities section and the photography more than most of the painting.

From the Tate we nipped upstream on the Tate riverbus to Tate Modern and continued on foot to the Design Museum. Unfortunately, we stopped en route for "refreshments" and by the time we got to the Design Museum we were too late to go into the Saul Bass exhibit... So we made our way to the Barbican.

The Elephant Vanishes is fantastic... part Gilliam, part Tomato and slick as you like. The subtitles, above the stage, were a bit high, but we were about 5th row, so that might not be an issue further back. The cast double as stage hands, choreographed to slide props around the stage when they are not speaking or move chairs to imitate the steps of an elephant. The way they interact with the technology onstage and live voices merge into pre-recorded ones was breathtaking. I can't wait for the next Complicite production. It was all over by 9.30, so we were home in time for the Man With The Golden Arm, with it's Saul Bass credits and Elmer Bernstein score and Frank Sinatra as the fantastically named Frankie Machine that is one cool, if slightly overlong, movie...

Sunday was less cultural, as we saw off Trev and Viv from their old home and awoke with almighty hangovers today! So, good luck in the new home at last... and congratulations to Nichola and Simon on the birth of baby Evan. Ahhh!

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