Turner Contemporary

Pretty lucky living in Kent when things like this come around...
Went to the new Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate this week (first week it was open). It also coincides with my self directed project I am completing at the moment, where I have mentioned Turner and how he found light extremely important.

“Turner Contemporary’s purpose is to stretch the boundaries of current visual arts practice, to make the exhibitions sufficiently varied and to bridge the gap between the historical and contemporary.” Victoria Pomery, Director, Turner Contemporary

http://www.turnercontemporary.org/ - link to the gallery's site, if ya fancy looking...

I love contemporary art (as I'm sure most my lecturers know, as I focus a lot of my essays on the subject) so I was really excited about seeing what was there practically on my door step. And don't get me wrong I loved the artwork, I just feel it was a bit sparse... there seemed to be a lot of 
S    P   A   C   E which is of course a very modern thing to do, but I believe there was too much. I understand that one of the main focus' was to capture as much light as possible, however I feel their attempt to do this is not obvious, unless however you already knew their intentions. 
Also gold type on a red background for some of the descriptions... I mean really?! Kind of hard to read and I'm only 20...

Plus you had to really look for the descriptions of each display (which are kind of vital to understand the work when it comes to most contemporary pieces of art). Therefore if you're not that interested in art would you really go looking for it? And considering it's in Margate... is the artwork then wasted?

However on a more positive note, it was amazing having contemporary work so close to home and I hope they continue putting new pieces in there :)