Video Still. The Weeping Woman, Tate Liverpool, 2009 © Rineke Dijkstra Courtesy the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler
Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying
26 April – 30 August 2010
Tate Liverpool, Wolfson Gallery
Admission Free
In April 2010 Tate Liverpool is proud to unveil new commissions by acclaimed Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra. Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying features two Liverpool-based video works never seen before in the UK.
The works were borne out of the artist’s residence at Tate Liverpool during the European Capital of Culture 2008 exhibition The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space; a groundbreaking project inspired by ideas and proposals from people across the city. Through collaborating directly with Tate Liverpool’s audiences, Dijkstra’s residence saw her working with groups of school children from across the region, after being inspired by the ways that Tate Liverpool staff encourage children to interact with art. During The Fifth Floor a studio was built in the gallery and the artist documented school children interpreting Picasso’s iconic painting Weeping Woman (1937), currently on display as part of the free exhibition DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture.
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Aaron Douglas Aspiration 1936 © Estate of Aaron Douglas, Courtesy Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Liverpool artwork of the week 2010-6. ‘Aspiration’ (1936) by Aaron Douglas in ‘Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic’ at Tate Liverpool 29 January – 25 April 2010
This is the first picture in this excellent exhibition and one of my favourites.
The Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas can be seen as a foundational figure of Black Atlantic modernism. In his paintings, Douglas depicted African heritage as a source of pride, and modern African-American life as a focus for aspiration. He also created illustrations for the magazine The Crisis, embodying founding editor W.E.B. Du Bois’s idea that African-Americans lived in a state of double-consciousness: ‘It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others…’
Afro Modern at Tate Liverpool
Tate Liverpool| Current Exhibitions | Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic.
The new micro-site for the Afro Modern exhibition at Tate Liverpool is now running.
We had a look round yesterday and really enjoyed the show which opens today. Private View tonight for members and there are some launch events on Saturday afternoon.
I don’t think I’ve seen this CultureLabel.com before. It’s rather good but maybe not so good for my credit card.
Tate and CultureLabel.com are collaborating to launch the 2010 edition of RELEASE and, this year, the hunt is on for two outstanding product designs that will be produced and sold in Tate shops, through Tate Online and at CultureLabel.com.
This is your chance to get your work into Tate and let your imagination run wild. The winning entry from each category will receive a cash prize of £500 plus commission on sales from 6 months in.
The winning product could:
-Capture the experience of Tate visitors, be they young or old, from the UK or from across the globe.
-Capture the impact that Tate has had on the public’s experience of galleries and its influence on the arts
-Be inspired by the architecture of the buildings, such as the iconic Tate Modern, which is 10 years old in 2010
-Be inspired by any of Tate galleries, which include Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate St Ives, Tate Liverpool and also Tate Online
Product designs must fall into two price brackets – up to £10 and up to £100.
Full details
Merseyside’s Turner Prize winner launches new artist lecture series
Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey is to give the first of a new series of ‘Tate-Hope’ lectures in January 2010.
Mark, who was born in Birkenhead and went to school in Ellesmere Port, will speak about the influence that growing up in Merseyside has had on his work.
The talk will be held at Liverpool Hope’s Cornerstone campus in the city centre on January 14th. The day after the lecture, Mark will visit the university’s art department and talk to staff and students.
Christoph Grunenberg, Director of Tate Liverpool said: “We are delighted that Mark Leckey is re-launching this partnership that brings the best contemporary artists to Liverpool. Continue reading ‘Merseyside’s Turner Prize winner launches new artist lecture series’
Michael Landy H.2.N.Y. Metallic suicide 2006 Courtesy Thomas Dane Gallery, London © Michael Landy
Liverpool artwork of the week 2009-51. H.2.N.Y. Metallic suicide 2006 by Michael Landy in Joyous Machines at Tate Liverpool 2 October 2009 – 10 January 2010
The final artwork for 2009, I must have missed a week somewhere. This is one of the larger of several paintings by Landy responding to Jean Tinguely’s Joyous Machines and his Homage to New York suicidal sculpture. I think this was drawn with white oil stick onto black paper, others were done with gouache or correction fluid.
If you haven’t seen the exhibition yet why not go this weekend Sat/Sun 2-3 January 2010 as its only £1 to non-members (Normal full price is £6)
Landy co-curates Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, and devotes special attention to Tinguely’s rarely examined early career, tracing the development of Tinguely’s work from the late 1940s building up to his momentous Homage to New York. This, the most famous and influential of all ‘auto-destructive’ works of art, was a 27ft high self-destroying mechanism that came to life for 27 minutes before catching fire during a performance in the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, New York on 17 March 1960.
Michael Landy’s comprehensive research and responses to the work, including a new documentary film and a selection of his impressive series of drawings (he has made over 160 in total), will be presented alongside photographs, films and relics of the original event.
Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely
2 October 2009 – 10 January 2010
at Tate Liverpool
Jean Tinguely, Méta-Matic No. 10, 1959 Museum Tinguely, Basel, Photo: Christian Baur © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2009
New Year gets of to a fantastic start at Tate Liverpool.
Tate Liverpool is to hold its very first January sale. Join us on the 2 and 3 January2010 and take advantage of 2 fantastic offers:
1. All tickets for Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely reduced to just £1 (per person)
2. Enjoy a slice of delicious home made cake in Tate Liverpool’s Café for only £1 (whilst stocks last!)
Tate Liverpool will be open as normal during sale days and entrance to Mark Rothko’s moving Seagram Murals and the fantastic DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture – featuring the 133 works by artists including Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Yayoi Kusama and Gilbert & George and many more, is FREE.
To claim discounted tickets and to take advantage of our fantastic café offer, just turn up on the 2 or 3 of January.
Another nice, arty advent calendar. This one from the Tate. I don’t know why its says ‘Kids’, seems perfectly suitable for adults like me.
http://kids.tate.org.uk/calendar2009/
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