Gerald Laing Exhibition

... and a bit of Brick Lane

September 2007

Chrissy and I often like to spend our weekend walking around London and checking out various art exhibitions.  This was one of those weekends.

Gerald Laing Exhibition

Gerald Laing was a famous british artist involved in the British Pop Art movement in the 1960s. 

Here is his website

http://www.geraldlaing.com/

Most of the paintings below are from his Iraq Paintings 2004 - 2005 series.

Colgate Girl

Only One Of Them Uses Colgate

Common Decency

American Gothic

They make a desert and call it democracy

Catechism

The New American Tourist

Repetition 2005

Chrissy and The New American Tourist

Truth or Consequences.  This painting is amazing as it is actually two images depending on your perspective.

E.g. Tavistock Square bus bombing and Tony Blair morphs into the bombing of Baghdad and George Bush.

Look Mickey

Homage to Joseph Albers

The Silent People Shall Weigh Your Gods And You

US on Top 2004

Apres Midi d'un Faune

Door in the exhibition space.

Capriccio 2005

The Great War Leader (Homage to Jean Paul Goude)

Tony

Chrissy's eye using digital zoom

Brick Lane

I love this graffiti.

Poster inside a shop of the old Brewery complex in Brick Lane

I do not want my taxes to pay for the new world odor.

Infernal rraffic. 

Banksy print for sale inside a shop.  £40 not £40k.

Phone cards and micro packets of tea, cleaners, etc.