Star
rating – 4/10
The Whitworth
is one of my favourite art galleries – I love the building, the setting, the area,
and usually I love the exhibitions. This one should have really inspired –
marrying the themes of global artistic material displays with arguably the home
of the Industrial Revolution – Cottonopolis. But it doesn’t really take off.
There are some
interesting pieces, like the beautifully vibrant colours of Lubaina Himid, but
in truth some of the exhibits are drab, and the curation is uncharacteristically
uninspiring. Maybe they just excelled themselves with ‘Dark Matters’, or maybe
they didn’t stray far enough away from the textiles which form part of the normal
bill of fayre here. Still, I’ll be back for the next one – here’s hoping.
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