Nottingham Contemporary – the fourth exhibition

The fourth exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary has started and runs through until 3rd October. I blogged about the last exhibiton here. That was back in June.

Sunday mornings are a good time to go – but again it was very quiet – we were two of four in the Cafe.

There are two exhibitions running – a rather good Gert & Uwe Tobias and a fairly sombre Diane Arbus photographic collection. As a keen photographer I was impressed that there was a great collection of such photographs – but I had failed to grasp the solemnity of Arbus’ style. One of my favourite pictures – the boy with the grenade is shown here. It is quite disarming!

But I really liked the Gert & Uwe. Their use of colour on large scale works is really good. I wasn’t sure about some of the pottery pieces – they looked too much like to sort of CSE pottery stuff from my old school (CSE’s remember them?). But the major works were impressive – puzzling but impressive. It must be quite unusual for twins to produce work collaboratively. And on a typewriter too (remember them?).

So Nottingham Contemporary pull it off again – we get coverage in the Guardian and it’s still quite a cool place. From the inside….

We just need to keep telling people to make sure that it gets the visitors it deserves. It does deserve to survive and thrive.