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It’s gallery monday again, which means I dragged Leanna up to London to sample the delights that it’s many exhibitions have. This week we went to the V&A to have a look at Cold War Modern: Design 1945 - 1970. I wanted to go see this because I like soviet design and this seemed like a good place to see it. I got to see some nice posters from that era such as a great french anti-communist poster which I wanted to get print of but at £16 a pop I chose not to. The exhibition itself was a combination of furniture made to survive in a post-nuclear climate and futuristic depictions of space. There were some spy gadgets which were quite intriguing (like a camera in a book, amazing it was disguised given the massive hole in the cover so it could be used) and loads of material on how the art world dealt with a nuclear threat. The thing I enjoyed was looking at the furniture, they had a flat pack idea from the early fifties, which would have put IKEA to shame and all the ‘womb’ chairs, I’ve never sat in one but I love the shape they have. Overall the exhibition wasn’t as exciting as the SATCHI visit due to it’s lack of interactivity but I got to see some architects models of futurist ‘living on the moon’ colonies so I was happy
The one down side of it all was the fact I couldn’t take my camera in so I can’t show you the art, which is a bummer. Another part of today that’s worth noting is the installation in the central garden. They have a digital art installation that reacts to music running in the centre of the pool there. Was quite fascinating to watch, though the fact it didn’t interact with audience let it down a bit.
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