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Works in Progress Documenting the rubble of London, guided by the Film and Video Umbrella commissioned city walks. http://ourmutualfriends.com/ A slow death and a fast birth.

Graham Hudson
Film & Video Umbrella: Our Mutual Friend

The one and only constant in the city, is the constant change. Permanence is a ruse as architecture is always a perpetual motion. The city is planned and unplanned, the post-modern and the budget patch-up, the ground is dug over for both fiber optic cables and Victorian water pipes. Shoring holds up walls, scaffold is a virus. The bollard, th

e high-vis, the reality of the broken pavement and scared landscape. For Film & Video Umbrella’s Our Mutual Friend Graham Hudson follows the routes of the 6 FVU Dickensian walk, documenting the ruptures and repairs to London. The walks are:

1. Southwark & City
2. Angel to Holborn
3. Soho & Covent Garden
4. City and Clerkenwell
5. Lincolns Inn and Temple
6. Marylebone & Bloomsbury

Graham Hudson invited photography contributions to the project from:
Léonie Cronin, Shelly Theodore, Cadi Froehlich, Gin Dunscombe, Emily Bruton and Sue Stephens.

01/06/2023

"Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
— Rainer Maria Rilke

31/01/2023

Édouard Manet was born in 1832.

A Bar at the Folies-Bergère is one of the masterpieces and was Manet’s last major painting, completed a year before he died.

🍺 The Folies-Bergère had rapidly become one of the most popular music halls and places of entertainment in Paris. Manet frequented it with friends and made sketches on site. However, the final work was painted entirely in his studio, where a barmaid named Suzon came to pose. She is the painting’s still centre. Her enigmatic expression is unsettling, especially as she appears to be interacting with a male customer who is shown in the mirror.

💐 Ignoring normal perspective, Manet has shifted their reflection to the right. The bottles on the left are similarly misaligned in the mirror. This play of reflections emphasises the disorientating atmosphere of the bustling Folies-Bergère. In A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Manet created a complex, absorbing composition and one of the iconic paintings of modern life.

You can see this painting on display in our LVMH Great Room on the 3rd Floor of The Courtauld Gallery, and explore it on Google Arts and Culture.

courtauld.ac.uk/highlights/a-bar-at-the-folies-bergere/

Édouard Manet, 1832 – 1883, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882, The Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust) © The Courtauld.

06/02/2019
08/12/2012
W1 ( Bloomsbury & Fitzrovia ) Graham Hudson
05/12/2012

W1 ( Bloomsbury & Fitzrovia ) Graham Hudson

London Macros_ W1, W1, N1, WC1, SE1, W1, EC1
01/12/2012

London Macros_ W1, W1, N1, WC1, SE1, W1, EC1

29/11/2012
Frith St, W1, London
15/11/2012

Frith St, W1, London

From Dover St. to Soho Sq. (via Piccadilly and Dean St.)
12/11/2012

From Dover St. to Soho Sq. (via Piccadilly and Dean St.)

09/11/2012
Works: Refurbishing of grade 1 listed: St.Andrew Undershaft Church. Construction of: The Leadenhall Building. Streetwork...
06/11/2012

Works: Refurbishing of grade 1 listed: St.Andrew Undershaft Church. Construction of: The Leadenhall Building. Streetworks at Royal Exchange Buildings

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