Tate Modern

In the Easter holidays I went to London and whilst I was there I decided to go to Tate Modern to see there collection displays. I was actually surprised on how much new artwork they had since I recently went, as I didn't think they would change the displays so soon.

I was really excited to see actual pieces of art of Rebecca Horn, as I've never seen any of her work in real life, but I used to do a lot of artist research about her whilst I was studying my foundation degree. Her work is very unusual and I love how she creates items to then take photographs with the item as well as her, as this is the thing I do in my practice. 

Annette Messager artwork was also there and these scary face like sculptures was very inspiring when it came to my practice as they was quite similar to the work I've been recently creating, so it gave me even more ideas for the future. 

Annette Message, The Pikes, 1992-3 

Nam June Paik, Bakelite Robot, 2002

I was also very surprised to see work by Nam June Paik who was an artist I researched last year in my foundation course. I find his artwork very interesting and modern. In level 5 this is the type of art I want to make as I want to experiment with video art.

Tate Modern was great but my favourite piece in the exhibition was Bill Viola piece Tiny Deaths. This was the first piece of Bill Viola I've seen and it was amazing because it was dramatic and spooked the people who went in and viewed it. I have recently been researching Bill Viola for inspiration for my work as I want to experiment with video art in the future and I love his work as it always gets a reaction from the viewer as I cant explain how scared and confused the viewers was of his work when I was there.