Art: Horrors frontman Faris Badwan gives us a tour of Tate's Paul Klee show

Date
28 January 2014

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To be totally honest, I didn’t expect to enjoy this film when I started watching it. There’s a long and inglorious tradition of “celebrities” being shoehorned into seemingly random contexts to the point it all starts to resemble an Alan Partridge programme pitch (“Youth Hostelling With Chris Eubank”). But as it turned out I was engrossed for the full four minutes of The Horrors frontman Faris Badwan showing us around Tate Modern’s Paul Klee exhibition. Firstly because Faris studied illustration at Central Saint Martins in the early 2000s and speaks with passion and intelligence about Klee’s work. And secondly the film links to his own artistic endeavours, so we aren’t just told that Klee influenced his pictures but are actually shown how.

This is a real gem of the TateShots series and if Klee floats your boat as it does Faris’, then the video with curator Matthew Gale is also well worth a watch.

Paul Klee – Making Visible runs until 9 March at Tate Modern.

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TateShots: Faris Badwan on Paul Klee

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TateShots: Faris Badwan on Paul Klee

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TateShots: Faris Badwan on Paul Klee

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TateShots: Faris Badwan on Paul Klee

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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