Chapman Family Collection (Detail)
As part of their exhibition Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain, the Tate Gallery has created the ‘Classified’ Flickr group, where group members can contribute up to 5 images of the objects they collect. The results are quite fascinating, from swing tags to old doll’s heads, coins, photographs found in antique shops, Vimobots, found handwritten notes, lottery tickets, and many more. To see them, have a look at our Flickr photostream on the sidebar.
“Classified” exhibits works from the Tate’s contemporary art collection, and explores the role of the gallery in collecting, classifying and displaying objects. It includes works such as Mark Dion’s Tate Thames Dig, Damien Hirst’s Pharmacy and Jake and Dinos Chapman’s The Chapman Family Collection, and it is an interesting exploration of the act of collecting. You can see the exhibition at Tate Britain in London until August 23. MB
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