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  • I love it.

  • Oh, that's lovely to like the boats.

  • Oh, wow, The meat.

  • Real talk.

  • Do you think way?

  • Come on.

  • My favorite event of the summer is the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.

  • And I go with my dad on what it is is an exhibition from people that submit to the gallery on Hope that there will be chosen.

  • So basically, it's the most Democratic art exhibition, I think in the world.

  • So in the past, I've actually bought a print of people on the train.

  • I got another one called Hanging at the gallery.

  • So we're on our way to the Royal Academy to take a look at the preview of the review.

  • And I'm gonna meet a woman.

  • Edith, He's the curator.

  • And I might even try and sneak away or not working.

  • Got a fantastic picture of some carrots, Guidry yesterday, which I think is very interested in.

  • They have faces.

  • Can you explain how this came to be like when was the first time this exhibition took place?

  • So the summer exhibition is 251 years old.

  • Is old.

  • Is the academy like how many people submit work So this year it was 16,000 on the theme this year is art that describes our world today.

  • So first room, one of the things that jock wanted to do, which I think is a lot of fun, is do a menagerie.

  • You got these weird kind of hybrid dogs here who did that?

  • Its end.

  • That's Charles Avery.

  • It's like that Caterpillar movie or whatever it's called human sin to be.

  • I was very, very weird.

  • And then you get kind of Maur kind of recognizable forms here in this crazy tiger eyes made up of those little tea talk things T k covers, you know, the little wrappers.

  • What's going on in here?

  • So this is the biggest room on Jock McFadyen hung this room and he was very interested in looking at photography and painting together.

  • So normally we would separate out photography and painting.

  • So it's it's a painting.

  • Looks like a photo.

  • Yeah, on one of the great pieces in here, I think, Is this work by the vendors?

  • Oh, yeah, People know him is a filmmaker, but he's being a photographer since 19 sixties.

  • You got Vince Enders photograph you but Anselm Kiefer who has got to be one of the most famous artists in the world.

  • But then in amongst that within the exhibition, you've got work by artist that none of us have heard on their emerging on.

  • It's such an exciting opportunity to find those artists on maybe at the start of their career, start your collection.

  • Each galleries got a very different personality because different present hung it.

  • This room has been put together by Richard Wilson and Richard Wilson.

  • He's a sculptor like the drunkard that hiss that.

  • So, yeah, here's a drummer and we can hear this music as we enter into this room way all immigrants come true.

  • True, my kind of outfit that I love it.

  • I love that photo girl.

  • Isn't that great?

  • Gorgeous.

  • 254 I've got my book.

  • Look it up!

  • We can look it up in the book so there's 1600 works in the exhibition, so I you know I've tried, but I cannot commit everything to memory.

  • To 54 Zaza Zang Cool name.

  • £800 additional tend bad.

  • That's not that you just go to the desk, you just go all stay number like ordering.

  • As for the number and you pay a deposit, and then the artist will get in touch with you.

  • And at the end of the exhibition, you pick it up.

  • Anyone very interested in the work?

  • Really well known artist, but can't afford to buy a painting.

  • And prints are amazing.

  • And we got prints in here by Richard Long.

  • This is Gary Hugh.

  • Wow.

  • And this is Jim dying in a gym.

  • Great American painter.

  • Who wouldn't want this?

  • Jim Dine heart.

  • How much is that, Jim Dine, Holwell.

  • It's less you would imagine.

  • 837837 Who?

  • Yeah, 18,000.

  • Nearly 90.

  • But wouldn't it lift your heart?

  • Every time you see this, it would lift my also break my bank, but yeah.

  • No, no, no.

  • That's a great one on this YouTube channel.

  • All I do is look at with beasts.

  • Apparently community resource war for dinner.

  • And I'm looking an hour with the face and tits.

  • It's a nightmare.

  • I want to stand here.

  • Here's this.

  • This is John Davis.

  • Isn't that a great peace that makes so much sense to my walls?

  • That feels right.

  • No, I This room, I just There's something about the hang in this room.

  • It is so serene but interesting, because most of the exhibition is kind of exhausting.

  • But the time you've got round you know, 1500 works, this is actually the last space is just absolutely.

  • It just kind of Cam's you down a little bit.

  • And there's quite a lot of abstraction in here and things that are almost abstract this great life.

  • Lisa Milroy.

  • So this swimming costumes and you know the edge of the pool, love.

  • Oh, I'll be back.

  • Okay, well, thank you so much for talking to me and showing me around.

  • I'll leave you with the menagerie after the party is the after party before the summer preview.

  • It's the preview of the preview, So thanks for watching.

  • This is the Royal Academy Summer exhibition.

  • Don't forget to comment, subscribe.

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