Mark Wallinger curates 'The Russian Linesman' at The Hayward.

This was my first visit to the Hayward Gallery, strange, considering. I don't much appreciate the architecture of the outside, or the stench when you walk up or down the stairwells. But the inside was much better than expected! Its postmodern, box rooms are a great space, giving enough area for separate mediums of work. 'The Russian Linesman' was much more my style, as opposed to the Annette Messenger exhibition. Her's was fun, a bit eerie in places, disturbing in others. The collection of dead birds dressed in knitted clothes to represent aged people, was strange. This ran alongside an undertone of childlike humor, e.g swapping heads of stuffed toys.
The Mark Wallinger exhibition included a collection of chosen pieces from history following the theme of the title; 'Frontiers, Borders and thresholds.' The interactivity of the exhibition was really engaging; little binocculars through walls to see photographs, a reconstructed corridor.
While we were here, we were set a projects by our visiting tutor Christian......... to redesign the exhibition poster, using our reactions and experience to the collection.
My main feelings from the day was that it was a random collection of works throughout history, all brought together under one title, so instead of people being able to interpret each piece how they want, it is all here because of Wallingers associating each with 'boundaries.'
The pieces range in location from all over the world, enabling us to experience pieces of alternative cultures/styles/contexts.
My most memorable part of the exhibition were the installations and statues, the 'tardis,' the reconstructed corridor, the films. I also read on the Daily Telegraph website about Wallinger constructing a 'white horse, taller than The Statue of Liberty,' to be placed in Ebbsfleet International. (www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/4638431/Mark-Wallinger-The-Russian-Linesman-at-the-Hayward-Gallery-review.html)
I wanted to mimic this as my poster design, constructing a white horse in New York. I was interested in another quote I found about the exhibition, "a ragbag of a show, jumble of artworks, artefacts and bric-a-brac." This interpretation would be suitable in the form of a montage, so i decided to use a mixture of photographs, hand illustrations and digital text to convey my reactions to the exhibition.