The Light Show

^{The Hayward Gallery is defiantly in my top 5 London galleries; it never fails to impress me especially with the wide varieties of exhibitions and great artists always giving me inspiration. The gallery, a striking concrete form created in the Brutalist style of architecture that Londoners either love or hate. Personally I think it looks like a strange alien dragon but hey that’s me.}

I had herd a lot about the “Light Show” which was on ^{30th of January 2013 – 6th of May 2013 so me and my boyfriend thought we would have a cute date to the exhibition just before valentines day.}

 

 ^{The Light Show features works by 22 artists showcasing artworks created from the 1960s to the present day from sculptures to projections.}

^{The simple title suggests just what it is, a different type of art that shines, glistens, sparkles, glows and radiates light around the pristine white walls of the Hayward Gallery. From neon bright lights, florescent mists, staggering strobes and amazing light water features.}

^{Overall I really enjoyed myself, but moving from room to room looking at different shades of artificial light installations scattered around the gallery space isn’t my favourite type of exhibition and herd few people say “ that one was a bit crap, lets see the next one”, I defiantly expected more just because I had herd so much about it before so it upped my expectations. Some of it could have been positions better for example Dan Flavin’s seminal 1960s arrangements of the neon tubes is placed pretty much in the walk way to the next instillation encouraging the viewer to walk straight past it.}

^{I also didn’t enjoy queuing up for 20 minutes to walk through a pitch black corridor into another room that was just very bright light projected to a screen at the front with benches to sit on, we sat there for a while thinking something else was going to happen or appear, but unfortunately was disappointed.}

 ^{I enjoyed Doug Wheeler’s all white instillation, where we had to put plastic shower cap type things over our shoes and cross a white floor towards a glowing misty light in the distance that appears to suggest, by the merest adjustment of tones, an immense of space.}

^{My favourite instillation was Olafur Eliasson's sensational night garden, which reminded me of when I went on a school trip to France. They took us to this amazing light show in a theatre where water was squirted out in different directions lights and strobes shone at it of all different colours similar to the amazing mesmerizing free light and musical show like no other in Las Vegas outside Bellagio Hotel which I have also had the privilege of viewing.}