Mayor of London (A shortlist exhibition programme in London)

  I went to London with a friend on 18/2/2017. Actually, we just wanted to travel around London, however, when we went near the National gallery, I asked my friend if we could go into the gallery and see if there has any exhibition. Luckily that there was a limited time exhibition about playing with different objects. I took a catalogue from the exhibition, I didn't stay there for a long time because I returned in the same day so the time was really rush that's why I took a catalogue so that I can see all details afterward. The name of the exhibition was called " Fourth Plinth Commission Shortlist Exhibition", it held from 20 January until 26 March 2017. According to the catalogue, since 1999, Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth has been the home to world-class contemporary art. After sitting empty for 150 years, the plinth hosted three commissions by the Royal Society of Art. Building on this success, the Mayor of London set up the Fourth Plinth Commission, presenting works by some artists such as Mark Wallinger, Marc Quinn, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Katharina Fritsch.

  I really like this one because it was really funny, the name of this work was called "Higher" which designed by Damian Ortega, just used a toy car and the put a lot of things on it. I thought it would be very difficult to do that because if it is not balance, the things would fall down. However, in this artwork, we can see everything is very stable. Therefore, I think it was really funny. Actually, I looked at this because I want to play with different kind of objects in my graphic design journey as I always just worked with computer or digitally. Hence, it would be great to play with objects, stay away from computer.

                                        

  After I looked at this small exhibition, I went to the other part of the gallery, I saw some really famous paintings such as the " Two Tax-Gatherers".

  The description of this painting mentioned that the man on the left is writing out a list of taxes on items such as wine, beer and fish. Such tax officials were commonly allowed to retain in a percentage of the money they collected, and were criticised for their greed. The picture is probably intended as a warning against avarice. It was shocked me that as there are many meaning hided from this painting, I guess most people would just guess the man on the left is just writing something. Therefore, if I didn't look at the description, I won't know exactly the meaning of the painting.

                                       

  After that, we went to a Korea culture society building in London and then saw a lot of DVD's cover. Due to the fact that I want to work as the Kpop album cover designer, I went to there and see different cover designs.