Andrea and I went to Liverpool to see the rest of artworks which we haven’t seen form the last Liverpool trip. We arrived there at 9:30 in the morning. The first destination was Tate. The exhibition of Biennial was on the 4th floor of the gallery and it was free for entry. Then we walked around the Liverpool to visit other artworks and finally, we completed our arts studying trip at Walker Art Gallery. It was a very good day because we have seen a lot of amazing and interesting art pieces.
There are some artworks, which I like or I think they are interesting.
Europleasure International LTD, Touch and Go by Cristina Lucas
There was a short video exhibition in this unused old factory about people throwing stone to break the glasses of the building. The video is pretty interesting. People in the video become happy after they break the windows. It seems they have released their pressure by throwing stones to the Europleasure International LTD. The letters of Touch and Go are also showed by those broken windows.
Inside the buliding
The video was projected on a white board in the building.
1 Without by Wannes Goetschalckx
Not only a series of videos were displayed at Tate Liverpool, Wannes Goetshalckx was actually doing a performance moving boxes in a wood shelter at the same place. It was good to think about what missed?
In a year, the artist had taken an image of himself every hour. He have done five this kind of performance documenting himself. The changing of his appearance are clearly shown in the images.
I really the way how the artist to use a infra-red camera to make a video. The great contrast between the people's body temperature and the temperature of the environment was so sentimental to me when I was thinking about the government of China keeps building cities but never take care the residents.
Where are we from? Where will we go? by Li Weizhou
It is one of the five prizewinner pieces of John Moores Painting Prize China 2010, exhibited at Walker Art Gallery. I was really impressed by the simple painting of a long queue of people waiting for something in bus stop. It was probably because I am a China born Chinese and living in England, and the true is there are a lot of Chinese leave China, their home country to other states every year. Why they do not living their home country? The reason could be so many things.
It is also a very philosophical piece. Everyone has asked there questions, "where are we come from? We will we go?" at least one in their life. But no one knows the true answer. That is represented by a traditional Chinese painting but not a traditional composition. Especially the empty places of the painting, are very meaningful and connotative.
There were too much excellent artworks in the Liverpool Biennial Festival, I cannot mention them all in here. Moreover, I already forgot the titles and the artists' name of some art pieces which I like. Anyway, I am really looking forward to seeing the next Biennial Festival in 2012.
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