My Tate Experience

I decided to go and visit my friend who lives in London to her birthday in June this year. 
At the very same weekend Tate's art museum got it's reopening. 

As an art lover, not a critic, I wondered what I might experience once there. 

London as a town gives me kicks no matter how good or bad the weather might be. The energy just flows throughout my body and I feel like I have a new life. 




As most museas in London, there is no such thing as an entrance fee, but it is kindly expected to leave an offer of £4 that I think it is more than fare. 

I thought of going to Grand Opening in the evening of 16th of June, but my experience in Italy with queuing for hours discouraged me out of such event. 

I decided to go the day after instead and dedicated the whole day for the visit. For my surprise there were no queues either. How is it possible to have no queues in an art museum? What ever reason english have for such comfort we should learn from them.

As a visiter to many museas, some artwork weren't new to me, like those of Picasso, probably seen as a copy in Paris, in Malaga, or in Barcellona. 

My favourite remain the couscous table or Untitled (Ghardaia) from 2009 of Kader Attia: I love food, and I like couscous and art, so I found inspirational his work that kind of tickled all my senses. Besides of the  contemporary art work, this artist is capable in different ways: His way of seeing art sometimes also from a critical point of view by composing them with a harmony, such as Tawaaf from 2009; a circle made of cans that looks like a fountain.  Reconstruction of 2016 express his ideology of rebuilding and the concept of repair. 





The photos of Sirkka Liisa Konttinen  looked so familiar to me that first I thought they were from our family album. Her shots are from 1970s when I was just a kid in an age of preschool. They remind me of my childhood in Finland. I think my younger sisters were kept in a carriage with such huge wheels. And just like these kids, we had the most peculiar places to gather and play in. 





Underneath some  snapshots from the collection of those I liked the most: the background belongs to German artist Gerhard Richter and it is called Strip from 2011. 

What comes to the museum itself, I found spaces open and large. Two buildings connected with a bridge at the 4th floor and in ground floor. An elevator that carries people up to the top roof to admire the view over London and the River Thames. 

I sensed peacefulness and enjoyed the art fulfillingly. 

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Tour of Sardinia part 1: Sardinian style murals

Sardinia is an Italian Island next to Corsica, in the mediterranean sea.
This island has very special story of inquisitors around the whole mediterranean area ever since the aboriginals lived the island, before and during the Nuraghi period.

photo by author with the app Collagelt

I was on my way to visit Bosa when crossed this beautiful little town called Tinnura: Village of farmers and artisans.

Tinnura is an open air Museo with wall paintings in almost every house. These wall paintings got started as a form of protest for the local authority and later turned in to a street art with modern subjects. 
The mural art demonstrates how the life follows in these villages.  
The town hosts also various art work of famous local artists.
At Tinnura I found several artisan boutiques that sell straw items, such as vase or plates. 
These items are made by a hay that grows next to the street and is collect by hand, such as the elaboration of the objects. These are decorated with sun, or stars and coloured yellow, red and green next to the natural colour of the hay. 

Bosa is a small town along the only navigable river in Sardinia called Temo.

photo by author

Bosa used to be settled already at the period of prehistory, and it has several Domus de Janas as archeological founding  While in the bronze period as well as the Nuraghi period  it looks like there weren't much of a settlement in Bosa. As the whole island of Sardinia, also Bosa was occupied by Aragon after the fall of the family of Malaspina. 

The remains of Castle in the top of the hill gives a suggestive view over the bay of the Sardinian Sea. 

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Bosa is a beautiful little town where time seems to have stopped with its narrow streets and olive tree gardens. The down town walking street offers places to sit down, eat or just drink some coffee.
 While to the castle there are stairs to climb or a road to walk in. 

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Bosa offers several hotel B&B and rooms to let. Nice restaurants where to eat and drink. 

Feel free to leave your comment of your Mural experience.