Wednesday, November 7/2012
Lovely day for a walk and we wander along the south bank fro Waterloo Station to the Tate Modern. There is currently no installation in the great hall, but we go to an exhibit on the human figure. One huge painting, Sabra and Shatila, by Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi, portrays the 1982 massacre in camps in Beirut of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Christian Phalangists. It's horrific, not in its initial effect but as realisation of its import grows. A little reminiscent of Picasso's Guernica. Jean Genet also visited the same camps after the massacre and spoke of the "thick white smell of death."
Back to Indian Veg - this time with airplane sized bottles of wine, for which the restaurant cheerfully provides wine glasses.
Lovely day for a walk and we wander along the south bank fro Waterloo Station to the Tate Modern. There is currently no installation in the great hall, but we go to an exhibit on the human figure. One huge painting, Sabra and Shatila, by Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi, portrays the 1982 massacre in camps in Beirut of Palestinian refugees by Lebanese Christian Phalangists. It's horrific, not in its initial effect but as realisation of its import grows. A little reminiscent of Picasso's Guernica. Jean Genet also visited the same camps after the massacre and spoke of the "thick white smell of death."
Back to Indian Veg - this time with airplane sized bottles of wine, for which the restaurant cheerfully provides wine glasses.
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