Modern Moral Matters.
Richard Hamilton at the Serpentine Gallery was one of the highlights of my weekend. I remember first coming across the artist in my first term at uni and can recollect possibly his most famous work ‘Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?’. The iconic 50’s collage features the zeitgest of the time in the early days of mass consumption: pin ups, comic books, electrical appliances, convenience food and cinema. In fact, he explored pop art in England a whole decade before Warhol.
The latest Serpentine show is Hamilton’s first solo exhibition for 18 years with old and new works still engaging with the politics of the times. From his most recent prints on Israel, to his protest work in Ireland and beyond to the 60’s. His art dealer Robert Fraser was famously arrested along with Mick Jagger in a well publicised drug bust, depicted in the ‘Swingeing London’ series of prints. Showing how the subject matter is represented by the media, the same image is reworked and multiplied using TV footage, photographs, paint, press cuttings and print creating a series of fragmented images.
The exhibition is on until the end of April and is well worth checking out - http://serpentinegallery.org/
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