Gardens, Tunnels, Postmodernism - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions
16 September, 2011
by: Tom Jeffreys
Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.
From Tuesday 23rd September
From Garden City to Green City @ Garden Museum
The Garden Museum presents an exploration of the green city movement that sprung up in Victorian times and continues in various guises to this day. From a time when Brixton and Waterloo were rural idylls right up to today when guerilla gardeners plant flowers in cracks in the road and Dalston is an unlikely hub for green creativity, the exhibition charts the zig-zag of history through books, art, photography, maps, diagrams and films.
From Thursday 22nd September
Mindful @ Old Vic Tunnels
To launch Mind's new creative therapies fund, Stuart Semple has curated a exhibition that's taking place this September in the atmospheric Old Vic Tunnels under Waterloo Station. On show are works by some of the biggest names in contemporary art – like Tracey Emin and the Chapman Brothers – as well as some of my personal favourites, like Tessa Farmer and Sebastian Horsley, who tragically died last year. Plus, there's also a programme of evening events, including comedy, performance and cinema.
From Saturday 24th September
Postmodernism – Style and Subversion @ V&A
It may well be that we still live in postmodern times, but – at least if the V&A is to be believed – the era of Postmodernism, as aesthetic movement, is long gone. This major exhibition charts the rise and fall of Postmodernism as the dominant aesthetic of the 1970s and '80s, across art, architecture, fashion and music. Characterised by clashes of colour and form, multiple reference points, irony and a desire to collapse boundaries hitherto understood to be inpregnable, Postmodernism was everywhere and, in many ways, still is.
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