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A Portrait of the Artists as Young Men: Gilbert & George
A Portrait of the Artists as Young Men
London 1967: two sculpture students meet at St. Martin’s School of Art. From then on, they decide to join their lives and their art in a unique, indissoluble entity. During the subsequent forty years, calling themselves simply Gilbert & George, the two artists investigate the complexity of the human condition.
Six Bombs Pictures
Gilbert & George. Major exhibition
CASTELLO DI RIVOLI
The exhibition is curated by Jan Debbaut and Ben Borthwick, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern.
16 October 2007 to 13 January 2008
Maman Bourgeois at Tate Modern
Louise Bourgeois is one of the world’s most respected sculptors. Over a long career she has worked through most of the twentieth century’s avant-garde artistic movements from abstraction to realism, yet has always remained uniquely individual, powerfully inventive, and often at the forefront of contemporary art. This major survey, in the artist’s 95th year, provides an unprecedented opportunity to reassess her work, which is characterised by its obsessive subject matter and experimental approach to materials and techniques.
Louise Bourgeois, TEMPER TANTRUM, 2000
Pink fabric
Beginning with her earliest drawings, prints and paintings, the show features over 200 works in materials as diverse as latex, bronze, marble, and mirrors, as well as her most recent works using fabric. It’s also another chance to see Bourgeois’s monumental spider sculpture Maman 1999, which was shown in the Turbine Hall when the gallery opened in 2000.
This exhibition explores Bourgeois’s core themes of femininity, sexuality and isolation, and demonstrates that even in her 90s she continues to defy convention.
Until 20 January 2008 at Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Turner Prize – A Retrospective 1984-2006
This is the definitive Turner Prize exhibition, featuring works by all the winning artists since it began in 1984. From Anish Kapoor to Damien Hirst, and Gilbert & George to Grayson Perry, it presents a snapshot of British art from the last 24 years.
Turner Prize – A Retrospective 1984-2006
@ Tate Britain, London, Until 6 January 2008
Gilbert & George: “We don’t want to be dead yet”
An impossible marriage of the epic and the humble: Alex Katz One Flight Up
Alex Katz, Orange Interior, 1968, Silkscreen
Alex Katz One Flight Up
Renowned post-war American painter Alex Katz is instantly recognisable: large scale, pared down and cropped, displaying what Roberta Smith calls his “unique, unorthodox brand of modernism!, which he uses to render scenes from modern life: cocktail parties, beaches, barbeques, as well as landscape, cityscapes and portraits.
White Shirt 1995-96, 9 paintings; oil on canvas
Representative exhibition at the new 600 square metre Timothy Taylor Gallery, in London, features a notable early and rare sculpture One Flight Up, from 1968, in which cut-out heads of Manhattan!s populous party scene are pegged onto one single vast chest-high table. The exhibition will also include the Man in White Shirt series from 1995-1996, Walking on the Beach, 2002 and the recent Winter Landscape, 2006.
A contemporary of Jasper Johns and Elsworth Kelly, Alex Katz became active in the New York art scene in the 1950s> His fluid works combine his admiration for the heroic grandeur of Pollock or Newman, and his interest in the everyday details of life as an attempt to lead the viewer to see the painting in a less local way, or as Robert Rosenblum calls it, “an impossible marriage of the grand and the small, of the epic and the humble”.
Alex Katz -One Flight Up
Timothy Taylor Gallery
15 Carlos Place London W1K 2EX
