So this last week we have been fairly quiet thanks to some much needed rest. We have done a little bit of traveling to various places – including the “Mediterranean” of the UK.
One of the day trips I managed to do was one to the Banksy exhibition at the Bristol City Museum just out of Clifton, near that cool bridge built by Brunel.
Now I’m fairly open minded when it comes to exhibition and more importantly queuing – which seemed to be what the exhibition was about. We had to queue to actually get into a queue and subsequently by the time we actually made it into the queue, it was filled with the annoying family types who really shouldn’t have brought there children. Generally these people are the sorts who believe continual moving around in the queue is acceptable and a large amount of ice cream will make the children quiet; it doesn’t.
OK, so after 3 hours we made it into the exhibition and where greeted by the sight of a vans covered in a kinda ice cream
Which housed the information center and as I noticed the ‘info guys’ where on Twitter and Facebook.
Scattered around where various bastardisations of famous statues – this was kinda cool. They included that famous David statue.
Now I spoke earlier about the ‘annoying families’ who frequent these controversial art shows, now what really irritates me about artists like Banksy is the following which will turn up to a show of this calibre are middle class, middle aged people who will only see the work he has done on its face value. They are the ones who will phone the Police and seek to turn graffiti art into a endangered species, very similar in a metaphorical sense to a rat, as Banksy frequently references in his work, the rats, are a kinda underworld type character, who the ‘bourgeoisie’ seem to want to get rid of, the ‘freaks of society’.
Now I enjoyed the art especially the “Di Faced Tenner” which was fairly cool and pretty ironic.
If only Bristol Museum had made the investments of having a better queuing system as 3 hours is a long time to wait for an exhibition that can only really last for roughly an hour. Oh, and Gawping at this kind of art is not cool when your wearing a tucked in polo shirt and shorts whilst referring to it as ground breaking… What is ground breaking is that you where allowed to have the privilege.
