Photographs can't do it justice - but the Anish Kapoor exhibition at newly-restored Pitzhanger Manor (Sir John Soane's country house in Ealing) is quite magical in an Alice in Wonderland kind of way.
It would be entrancing for children who can be trusted not to touch!
My daughter and I loved the Anish Kapoor exhibition and Pitzhanger, generally. Quite the contrast with Sir John Soane's Museum with all that clutter.( Can you imagine the poor servants trying to keep it clean and tidy?) Didn't need to worry about touching as daughter is 25, but you do want to touch them, just to work out the planes.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago, when they had that lovely tower of bubbles outside the RA , I turned to a man standing next to me and said, 'Oh, don't you long to touch it!' He said, 'Oh, please don't!' And it was only on the way home that the penny dropped and I realised it was Anish Kapoor! Just as well I hadn't!
ReplyDeleteThey've done a nice job on the restoration, haven't they? It looked very municipal before.
This looks exciting. I had never heard of this place. Has it been long under restoration?
ReplyDeleteIt's been closed for about three years, Lucille. They used to - occasionally - have very good exhibitions (and some awful rubbish, too!). But never well publicised, not even locally - you could walk right past and be none the wiser. On the bus route to Kew Gardens if that makes it more worth the trip!
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