The Contemporary Art Gallery in Nottingham overlooks the tell-tale blue brick retaining walls of the former Great Central Railway, at the point that expresses bound for London Marylebone burst out of the tunnel mouth and straight onto the junction at Weekday Cross.
The Contemporary, itself, likes to surprise - even to shock - with its rapid turn-over of modern art. Some of it is bewildering and some amusing. Sometimes it is challenging and quite upsetting, and occasionally it seems banal beyond belief. It is always different - though not necessarily refreshingly so.
I’m always up for giving it a go, and I find little gems that take my attention from time to time, as was the case last week within an exhibition entitled Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus. This time, it was in the form of three London Underground posters designed by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in the 1920s.
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