Posts Tagged Under: tate modern

Saturday, February 23 2013

Review: Lichtenstein: A Retrospective @ Tate Modern / until Monday 27th May 2013

To see “Look Mickey” in person, Roy Lichtenstein’s breakthrough painting, is like looking at a lost relic – the root of all things Pop: his early, definitive style and satire already visible in his controlled brushstrokes, comic-book aesthetic and signature hand-painted Benday dots. This is a precursor to the most comprehensive exhibition of Lichtenstein’s work, spanning 13 rooms of the Tate Modern, which include his famed War and Romance works such as Whaam! And Oh, Jeff… I Love You, Too… But…. In spite of their notoriety, these works formed only four years of the artist’s expansive career, and in a wonderful conclusion to this thorough retrospective are presented his large-scale and lesser-known nudes and Chinese landscapes. Conceived towards the end of his life, Lichtenstein’s palette has paled, the tone is serene. There is a lack of speech-bubbles and the scale used is paramount to gently tease the viewer with a hint of quiet honesty that his earlier works exchange for their hugely influential commentary on mass reproduction and the mechanical age.

This remarkable and captivating retrospective is a masterful nod towards Lichtenstein’s oeuvre that changed art forever, showcasing his work contextually through the chronology of his life as well as allowing the viewer to understand the times and influences of his work. Notably the Art about Art room highlights Lichtenstein’s adherance to his formal training, his composition of line, form and colour, seen in his homage to Picasso’s Femme d’Alger and the reproduction of the Vatican’s Laocoön: within this idiom is embedded infinite creative potential to stylise anything. This is emotionalism pre-packaged in accordance with the masked outlines of his work (Plus and Minus VI) and the finite edges of the canvas as comic strip panels (Masterpiece): this is the legacy of one of the central figures of American Pop Art.

TIME AND PLACE

Daily from 10am – 6pm,
Friday and Saturday until 10pm

@ Tate Modern
Bankside, SE1 9TG

Tickets £14, concessions from £6.10 to £12.20, all available here

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Wednesday, February 20 2013

Lichtenstein: A Retrospective @ Tate Modern / Thursday 21st February – Monday 27th May 2013

TIME AND PLACE

Daily from 10am – 6pm,
Friday and Saturday until 10pm

Previews on Wednesday 20th February

@ Tate Modern
Bankside, SE1 9TG

Tickets £14, concessions from £6.10 to £12.20, all available here

Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) is one of the central figures of American Pop Art. In the early 1960s he pioneered a new style of painting, executed by hand but inspired by industrial printing processes. He became renowned for works based on comic strips and advertising imagery, coloured with his signature hand-painted Benday dots, as an ongoing examination of representation and originality in mass media culture. It will also highlight Lichtenstein’s engagement with art history, revealing his lesser-known responses to Futurism, Surrealism and German Expressionism. In the final years of his life, the artist went on to create a series of huge female nudes and sublime Chinese landscapes, neither of which have previously been shown within the wider context of his oeuvre.

This exhibition will showcase such key paintings as Drowning Girl 1963 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), shown above.
Advance booking is highly recommended.

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Monday, February 4 2013

Advance Booking of Lichtenstein: A Retrospective @ Tate Modern / Thursday 21st February – Monday 27th May 2013

TIME AND PLACE

Daily from 10am – 6pm,
Friday and Saturday until 10pm

@ Tate Modern
Bankside, SE1 9TG

Tickets £14, concessions from £6.10 to £12.20, all available here

Co-organised by The Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, this will be the first major Lichtenstein retrospective for twenty years, bringing together 125 of the artist’s most definitive paintings and sculptures. Built on new research and scholarship, the exhibition will reassess Lichtenstein’s work and his enduring legacy.

This exhibition will showcase such key paintings as Drowning Girl 1963 (Museum of Modern Art, New York), shown above.

Advance booking is highly recommended.

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Thursday, January 24 2013

A Bigger Splash Exhibition @ Tate Modern / until Monday 1st April 2013

TIME AND PLACE

10am-6pm Sunday – Thursday
Last admission: 5.15pm

10am-10pm Friday – Saturday
Last admission: 9.15pm

@ Tate Modern
Bankside, SE1 9TG

Tickets £10, concessions available

This exhibition will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting since 1950. Contrasting key paintings by Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, the exhibition considers two different approaches to the idea of the canvas as an arena in which to act: one gestural, the other one theatrical. The paintings of the Vienna Actionists or the Shooting Pictures of Niki de St Phalle will be re-presented within the performance context that they were made, and juxtaposed with works by artists such as Cindy Sherman or Jack Smith that used the face and body as a surface, often using make-up in work dealing with gender role-play. The exhibition proposes a new way of looking at the work of a number of younger artists whose approach to painting is energised by these diverse historical sources, drawing upon action painting, drag and the idea of the stage set.

On Monday 28th January / 6.45pm-7.45pm, self-defining Queer artist Tim “Timberlina,” will be constructing a performance tour of the exhibition, centred around exploring the exhibition for broader sensibilities and notions of Queer past and present. Tickets are £10 / £7 concessions, and include a free glass of wine.

Sunday, December 16 2012

A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance @ Tate Modern / until 1st April 2013

TIME AND PLACE:

Open: Check the website
Sunday – Thursday 0:00 – 18:00
Friday – Saturday 10:00–22.00

@ Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Entry: £10 book

www.tate.org.uk

This exhibition will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting since 1950. Contrasting key paintings by Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, the exhibition considers two different approaches to the idea of the canvas as an arena in which to act: one gestural, the other one theatrical. The paintings of the Vienna Actionists or the Shooting Pictures of Niki de St Phalle will be re-presented within the performance context that they were made, and juxtaposed with works by artists such as Cindy Sherman or Jack Smith that used the face and body as a surface, often using make-up in work dealing with gender role-play. The exhibition proposes a new way of looking at the work of a number of younger artists whose approach to painting is energised by these diverse historical sources, drawing upon action painting, drag and the idea of the stage set.

Friday, June 1 2012

London Festival of Photography @ Various venues / 1st June – 30th June 2012

TIME AND PLACE:

1st June – 30th June

@ Various venues:
Museum of London,
British Library,
British Museum,
Tate Modern and the V&A
+ more

Entry: £Free (16 exhibitions)
(Two paid-for exhibitions)

www.lfph.org

This year, the festival has chosen King’s Cross as its hub and benefits from long-term partnerships with such establishments as the British Library, St Pancras International, the Guardian Gallery and King’s Cross Station.

Encompassing street, documentary and conceptual photography, the festival includes 18 exhibitions and 30 satellite events including workshops, talks and screenings.

Exhibitions will vary in style and format, presenting a comprehensive mixture of disciplines with work from both established and emerging photographers. Content will be curated around the theme, Inside Out: Reflections on the Public and the Private.

Download a map of all the festival exhibitions.
Join LFPH on Facebook.

Here are some of the exhibitions you can visit for FREE:
Inside Out: London Festival of Photography Prize: Fitzrovia Community Centre, 1 to 30 June
Contemporary London Street Photography: King’s Cross Station, 1 June to 15 August
Money in Bamako and London: British Museum, 1 to 30 June
Beneath the Surface – Steve Bloom: Guardian Gallery, 1 to 28 June

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Tuesday, May 1 2012

Damien Hirst @ Tate Modern / until Sunday 9th September 2012

TIME AND PLACE:

Open: 10:00 – 17:45 daily, open until 21:00 every Friday

@ Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Entry: £15.50

www.tate.org.uk
www.damienhirst.com

The exhibition will be the largest survey of Hirst’s work to be shown in the UK to date.

Key works from the artist’s most important series will be displayed together with one of Hirst’s most iconic works, the ‘Natural History’ piece, ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ (1991). These include a collection of the ‘Medicine Cabinets’ exhibited at Hirst’s Goldsmiths degree show in 1989 and the seminal fly vitrine, ‘A Thousand Years’ (1990) – considered by the artist to be amongst his most significant pieces.

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Saturday, March 24 2012

Stööki x Kusama x Louis Vuitton @ TATE Modern / Saturday 24th March 2012

TIME AND PLACE:

Doors: 1pm -6pm

@ Tate Modern
Bankside
London, SE1 9TG

Entry: £Free

Stööki curates a one-off event entitled KUSAMA-RISE as part of the infinite Yayoi Kusama exhibition.

Stööki is an independent jewellery & apparel label that launched last year May, presenting themed collections through interactive art and immersive events. Stööki has been selected by the TATE Modern and Louis Vuitton, to host a workshop as part of an immersive day of activities. This includes transforming the TATE Modern’s Turbine hall, into a UV themed, Silent Disco. Interactive art installations that rely on the use of social media, live performances and artist led workshops.

Your invitation awaits you – www.stooki.co.uk

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Friday, February 10 2012

Yayoi Kusama @ Tate Modern / until 5th June 2012

TIME AND PLACE:

Open:
10:00 – 18:00 Sunday – Thursday
10:00 – 22:00 Friday – Saturday

@ Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

Entry: from £10 book

www.tate.org.uk

The nine decades of Yayoi Kusama’s life have taken her from rural Japan to the New York art scene to contemporary Tokyo, in a career in which she has continuously innovated and re-invented her style. Well-known for her repeating dot patterns, her art encompasses an astonishing variety of media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, film, performance and immersive installation.

In an attempt to share her experiences, she creates installations that immerse the viewer in her obsessively charged vision of endless dots and nets or infinitely mirrored space.

This is a varied, spectacular exhibition of a truly unique artist. There has never been an exhibition of this size of her work in the UK and this is an unmissable opportunity for both Kusama fans and those new to her work.

This is going to be one of our favourite exhibitions of the summer. Make sure you visit first.

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Tuesday, October 25 2011

Trashing Performance @ Toynbee Studios, Tate Modern and Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club / Tuesday 25th – Sunday 30th October 2011

TIME AND PLACE:

Open: various

@ Toynbee Studios (Shoreditch)
Tate Modern and Bethnal Green
Working Men’s Club

Entry: various book

www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk
www.thisisliveart.co.uk

An International Public Programme with irreverent artists, activists and thinkers working at the edges of taste and respectability. Starring stars from the worlds of live art, performance, cabaret, academia and beyond. You’ll never see these people in the same room again.

Featuring shows, talks, films and workshops.

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