![]() Clearly illustrating the shift from easily recognisable painterly images to strong simplified statements, reducing topics to their very essence using bold colours, geometric shapes, repetition and manmade fabrics. ‘Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art uses work from the ACE collection augmented by National Museums Liverpool collection to ‘survey’ a seismic change in art at the time. With repeated twists of the lens, the kaleidoscope offers multiple perspectives in two or three dimensions’ according to the brochure and this is exactly what both exhibitions do. ‘To look through the simple cylindrical form of a kaleidoscope is to find a complex sequence of colour shape and form. This brings us nicely onto the Kaleidoscope exhibition. ![]() Like a Kaleidoscope, this approach presents each topic anew and encourages the viewer to look again. Look out for the dog in a traditional 18 th Century hunting painting, or the drum in a scene of decadence or the opulent pottery in a display case in the centre of the room. These figures are seemingly scattered randomly throughout the whole art gallery, but if you look closely you will see Himid has cleverly placed each one next to an established artwork from centuries before, highlighting links and asking questions of the viewer. On every back is a four-line poem highlighting their African name, their generic European name and a positive statement about who they were. Each life size figure represents an African slave who was taken from their homeland and sold to the highest bidder hundreds of miles away.Įach figure holds an item referencing their own expertise prior to being enslaved. The latter is of great fascination to me as 20 of her works are featured from the original 100 which make up the whole installation. Whilst I was originally expecting to review ‘Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art’ I am happy to be introduced to the displays of ‘Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money’ by Turner Prize winning artist Lubaina Himid as well. ![]() As they complement each other so well it seems appropriate to look at them together. Review Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence In 1960s British ArtĪrriving at the Gallery I am greeted by Arts Council Collection Project Curator Beth Lewis, who explains there are currently two exhibitions on display at the Walker Art Gallery that draw on the Arts Council England (ACE) national collection.
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