For anyone interested in the problems of representing catastrophe, it’s worth a trip to see the new exhibition at the Hayward Gallery called ‘The Painting of Modern Life’:
http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/. It features the likes of Warhol, Richter and Hockney exploring the relationship between photography and painting, and the first couple of rooms are particularly relevant to this course – with images of car crashes, race riots, explosions … and the Queen Mum’s funeral. The explanatory blurb also contains this revealing quote from Marlene Dumas: “Everything everyone holds against painting is true. It is an anachronism. It is outdated. It is obscene the way it turns any kind of horror into a type of beauty. Why do we still care to look at images? That’s why I continue to create them.”
Richard
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