Harrier/ Jaguar at the Tate Gallery (merged twice!)
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Move over Jackson Pollock
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Tate unveils fighter jet artwork
BBC News Monday, 28 June 2010
Two fighter jets that have seen active service have been turned into art in a new commission for Tate Britain.
Fiona Banner's work sees a Sea Harrier suspended vertically from floor to ceiling like a trussed bird.
In an adjoining gallery, a stripped and polished Jaguar jet plane lies belly-up on the floor.
Banner's past works include unedited descriptions of movies, including war films and pornographic tales.
The use of fighter jets recurs throughout her portfolio.
Harrier and Jaguar - commissioned for the Duveens Galleries - is her largest work to date. The two aircraft create a striking juxtaposition with the Tate's neo-classical surroundings.
Banner's fascination with fighter planes can be traced back to a moment in her childhood when she was walking in the Welsh hills with her father.
"It was so quiet and so beautiful and then suddenly out of nowhere came this Harrier jump jet and completely ripped up the sky and utterly changed the moment," she said.
"We were left with the words knocked out of us, wondering how something that was such a monster could be so beautiful."
Asked if she was a pacifist, Banner said: "The piece is more about our ambivalence to war and how on one level we loathe it and on another level we celebrate it."
The Sea Harrier, which is suspended from the ceiling by its tail, made its first flight in 1988. It was taken out of service after a crash-landing at Yeovilton in 2000.
Banner has hand-painted the aircraft's surface with feather markings.
The Sepecat Jaguar saw action in the Gulf in Operation Desert Storm in 1990-91.
At the time, one of the pilots painted the cartoon character Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles (from Viz comic) on the nose of the plane. The aircraft is last believed to have flown in 2006.
Banner has stripped the aircraft to reveal a mirrored, metallic surface.
"The Jaguar's polish is important because you see yourself reflected in it - you can't detach yourself from the object," she said.
Banner refused to say how much the two aircraft had cost to obtain.
In 1994, the artist created a "wordscape" in which she transcribed the Tom Cruise film Top Gun into a frame-by-frame written account.
Harrier and Jaguar runs until 3 January at Tate Britain.
BBC News Monday, 28 June 2010
Two fighter jets that have seen active service have been turned into art in a new commission for Tate Britain.
Fiona Banner's work sees a Sea Harrier suspended vertically from floor to ceiling like a trussed bird.
In an adjoining gallery, a stripped and polished Jaguar jet plane lies belly-up on the floor.
Banner's past works include unedited descriptions of movies, including war films and pornographic tales.
The use of fighter jets recurs throughout her portfolio.
Harrier and Jaguar - commissioned for the Duveens Galleries - is her largest work to date. The two aircraft create a striking juxtaposition with the Tate's neo-classical surroundings.
Banner's fascination with fighter planes can be traced back to a moment in her childhood when she was walking in the Welsh hills with her father.
"It was so quiet and so beautiful and then suddenly out of nowhere came this Harrier jump jet and completely ripped up the sky and utterly changed the moment," she said.
"We were left with the words knocked out of us, wondering how something that was such a monster could be so beautiful."
Asked if she was a pacifist, Banner said: "The piece is more about our ambivalence to war and how on one level we loathe it and on another level we celebrate it."
The Sea Harrier, which is suspended from the ceiling by its tail, made its first flight in 1988. It was taken out of service after a crash-landing at Yeovilton in 2000.
Banner has hand-painted the aircraft's surface with feather markings.
The Sepecat Jaguar saw action in the Gulf in Operation Desert Storm in 1990-91.
At the time, one of the pilots painted the cartoon character Buster Gonad and his Unfeasibly Large Testicles (from Viz comic) on the nose of the plane. The aircraft is last believed to have flown in 2006.
Banner has stripped the aircraft to reveal a mirrored, metallic surface.
"The Jaguar's polish is important because you see yourself reflected in it - you can't detach yourself from the object," she said.
Banner refused to say how much the two aircraft had cost to obtain.
In 1994, the artist created a "wordscape" in which she transcribed the Tom Cruise film Top Gun into a frame-by-frame written account.
Harrier and Jaguar runs until 3 January at Tate Britain.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
Pollock would have set light to the string and allowed the picture to evolve through free-will and gravity.
Balls! I was in London at the weekend with some time to kill and I remember thinking that I'd save myself the bother of going to the Tate Modern by just looking at the junk dropped in some of the back streets. 
Did got to St Clement Danes though which I would highly recommend to any fellow Pruners with a spare hour or so
Did got to St Clement Danes though which I would highly recommend to any fellow Pruners with a spare hour or so
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Wouldn't a gallery display of nose art have been nice?
Hang the masterpieces later in the IWM or Hendon!
Utterly impossible, but it's nice to daydream.
With an eye to the future, how well do composites polish up?
Hang the masterpieces later in the IWM or Hendon!
Utterly impossible, but it's nice to daydream.
With an eye to the future, how well do composites polish up?
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Surely the art was in the creation of the beautiful aeroplanes in the first place. All this "artist" has done is tart them up a bit. Why couldn't she just leave them alone?
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I'm sure she's a lovely person and better for the jets to end up in a museum than as razor blades, but....
"The two aircraft create a striking juxtaposition with the Tate's neo-classical surroundings."
" "The piece is more about our ambivalence to war and how on one level we loathe it and on another level we celebrate it."
... what a load of pretentious old bo11ox.....
"The two aircraft create a striking juxtaposition with the Tate's neo-classical surroundings."
" "The piece is more about our ambivalence to war and how on one level we loathe it and on another level we celebrate it."
... what a load of pretentious old bo11ox.....
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After my last visit to the Tate, I came away with the distinct impression that the artists were laughing their socks off at the ****wits who were "oowh-ing and ahh-ing" over their displayed "art". (And I understand the British taxpayer forks out very large sums of money to these "artists".)
There was one exhibit that consisted of randomly arranged rocks, and another, of equally randomly arranged styrofoam blocks, and as for some of the "paintings"... (!) a two year old child could do better at playgroup. (Maybe that's where they come from.)
The whole place needs some youngster to walk into its halls and say, in a very loud voice: "But the Emperor is stark bollicky naked!"
There was one exhibit that consisted of randomly arranged rocks, and another, of equally randomly arranged styrofoam blocks, and as for some of the "paintings"... (!) a two year old child could do better at playgroup. (Maybe that's where they come from.)
The whole place needs some youngster to walk into its halls and say, in a very loud voice: "But the Emperor is stark bollicky naked!"
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Nose art? My chum Bonzo has the original nose art from his Dad's Lancaster, framed, on his lounge wall. His father was the Wop/Ag and painted it in the first place. The Captain's name was Wolfson, so the subject was a werewolf with the caption "Man by day, Beast by night".
Gets me every time I see it. That painting was at Peenemunde....
Gets me every time I see it. That painting was at Peenemunde....
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More money than sense
I washed and polished my car this weekend, so could I exhibit it in tate Modern, then sell it for millions to some art lover?
The last modern masterpiece I saw in TM was a big crack in the floor. At least, I think it was art, or maybe the place is about to fall down.
As we say in Norfolk: "A loda ol squit!"
Truely, the Emperor has lost his trousers.....
The last modern masterpiece I saw in TM was a big crack in the floor. At least, I think it was art, or maybe the place is about to fall down.
As we say in Norfolk: "A loda ol squit!"
Truely, the Emperor has lost his trousers.....
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"Bonzo has the original nose art from his Dad's Lancaster, framed, on his lounge wall"
Molemot - any chance of posting a piccie on here? I'd love to see it!
Molemot - any chance of posting a piccie on here? I'd love to see it!
Any connection to this thread a few months ago? The Jag at the Tate is XZ118, not sure about the Shar.
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ier-ze695.html
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...ier-ze695.html
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Harrier/ Jaguar at the Tate Gallery (merged twice!)
This may be of some interest to some of you Tate Britain| Current Exhibitions | Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010
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If you look at the thread Move over Jackson Pollock!
Certainly your's is more explicit!
Certainly your's is more explicit!
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Interesting display at tate modern