until 14 Jul 19
Though not as rich and brutal as the Tate Liverpool exhibition last year, this is still a most interesting free exhibit of German interwar troublesome paintings accompanied by coherent contextually rich captions. Though, also preserved in a safe bottle of family viewing and political self righteousness. Images that would had been shaking are now by default accepted as ‘the right side of history’. Perhaps a comment on contemporary fascist narratives, contemporary wording and contemporary conflicts inter-state and intra-state might be interesting and fundamental in waking us up from our historical soporific view of the past.
We are still blind to the current shellshocked soldier, the current widow, the current prostitute out of destitution, the abducted raped bride, the 5p on the pavement that we never thought we’d bother pick up and now we excitedly do. We do not see the man following young mothers out of trams shouting ‘you are in England, you should speak fucking English’ as happened to my friend last week. Cause these are paintings safely pinned on walls and safely protected by their captions and preserved by time. You leave the exhibition upset, maybe; but definitely feeling you are not one of them. The ones from the past we spit on now. Not one of them. But no-one ever thinks they are.
more info:
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/magic-realism
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