Museum Visit: Vitality and Verve @ LBMA- Part Dos

"Untitled" by Meggs
“Untitled” by Meggs

As you walk up the stairs to the second floor of LBMA (@lbmaorg) to continue your tour of “Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape“, the first piece you will encounter is an untitled installation by Meggs (@houseofmeggs) of a familiar gun range target character bursting out the wall as if he had just shot a bullet through it.  If you look closely at the wall in person, you can see where Meggs plastered the wall to create this effect.  If you walk behind this wall, you will meet the gunman in full view, except now you will notice that he is in fact NOT holding a gun, but rather a spray can.  This is a huge distinction that I did not catch the first time I visited.

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