In numerous watercolours and prints he recorded the variety and beauty of the coastline and celebrated the nation’s maritime industries and naval heritage. But some of his most evocative images of the sea were rapidly-executed studies in watercolour which would not have been considered sufficiently finished for exhibition or sale. Turner: The Sea brings together major maritime paintings with a range of rarely seen studies.
This Tate Britain display has been organised as part of Sea Britain and Sea Liverpool 2005, a year-long festival of nationwide events that explores every aspect of Britain and Liverpool’s rich maritime history Nov 12th - May 1st 2006
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky - Apr 11th - Aug 13th 2006
Celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky’s birth, this exhibition brings the work of this acclaimed, yet relatively unknown, artist to a much wider audience than ever before. Fleeing the Nazis in 1938 she left Vienna with her mother, finally settling in England where she lived and worked in a community of gifted exiled artists
Kenneth Noland:
The Stripe Paintings
May 13th - Aug 28th 2006.
The exhibition concentrates on the horizontal striped paintings, widely acknowledged as Noland's most conceptually-evolved works. Ranging from the intimate to the large-scale panoramic, the exhibition will present seven paintings, and includes several of his major large-scale works.
Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think Me.
May 19th - Aug 28th 2006.
Forty years after his first solo exhibition, Tate Liverpool presents the largest exhibition in Europe of the American artist Bruce Nauman since 1998. Regarded as one of the most influential artists working today, Nauman has been a significant inspiration for many artists over several decades. Focusing upon his frustration with the human condition by examining forms of human behaviour,
biennial - Sept 16 - Nov 26 2006 Tate Liverpool showcases the work of fifteen of today’s most exciting international artists, most of whom have made new work especially for the exhibition. Urban regeneration, personal and geographical histories, memories and traces of other times and places are some of the themes explored, along with a story of when the fish first met the chip.
Installed in the Albert Dock, the mysterious sequential splashes of Brian Tolle’s Waylay activates the site and reminds us of its past and present significance to the city. Monica Bonvicini presents a spectacular installation made of glass and light whose scale and violence powerfully confront the imposing architecture of the Gallery. Julianne Swartz has given the entire building a personality and has enabled it to speak to us as we navigate its spaces.
Patrick Caulfield - Collection Display.
This display brings together paintings and prints from the Tate Collection to celebrate the work of Patrick Caulfield, who emerged during the 1960s and died in 2005. Until Feb 4th 2007
Henry Moore Natural Form - April 8th 2006 - Feb 4th 2007
Twenty years after the death of Henry Moore, one of Britain's most celebrated artists.
The display focuses on Moore's most abstract sculptures and drawings and their relationship to natural form. Moore had an acute eye for the sculptural qualities of objects such as bones, shells and stones, and kept a large number in his studio as inspiration for his work.
Jake and Dinos Chapman: Bad Art for Bad People Dec 15 2006 - Mar 4 2007
Admission £5, Concessions £4
Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Jake and Dinos Chapman are among the most significant and renowned of the generation of British artists which emerged during the 1990s. Since then, they have created a rich and provocative body of work through which they address often controversial issues and undermine the accepted view of art as morally and spiritually redemptive.
Their work deals with themes such as the instability of moral and ideological belief systems including concepts of good and evil; the interrelation of death and desire; the assumed innocence and asexuality of children; and the transgressive, and frequently grotesque, realities of bodily existence as manifested in plastic surgery, genetic manipulation and cloning.
The exhibition constitutes the first full-scale survey of the Chapmans’ art and is a unique opportunity to see important works from all phases of their career including Great Deeds Against the Dead 1994, recent work not displayed before in Britain such as Hell Sixty-Five Million Years BC 2004/5 and a new work made especially for the exhibition.
Tate08 Series: John Armleder - Dec 14 2006 to March 2007
Admission free.
Supported by Tate08 Partners
Tate Liverpool is delighted to present a new project with the Swiss artist, and international traveller, John Armleder. Known in the UK for works made elsewhere, the artist’s manifold actions, works and appearances across the globe over the last forty years have assumed near-mythical status.
Refusing to be bound by such conventional notions as genre, medium, material, style or taste, the Swiss draughtsman, performance artist, painter, sculptor, critic, curator and expeditionary is consistent only in his willingness to take creative risks.
Contemporary Art from China : Tate Liverpool March 30 - June 10 2007
The exhibition will present an overview of work made in China since 2000, including new commissions by established artists, and an in-depth survey of work by an emergent generation of young artists.
Shanghai-based artist, critic and curator Xu Zhen and Simon Groom, Head of Exhibitions at Tate Liverpool, have spent several years researching the artists and works for the exhibition, which will feature work by about twenty artists, and will include several large-scale installations, and several new commissions.
Peter Blake: A Retrospective. Jun 29 - Sep 23 2007
A major retrospective exhibition of paintings and drawings by Peter Blake, the largest since his Tate Gallery exhibition in 1983.
A highly influential and original artist, Blake is often described as the godfather of British Pop art.
The exhibition will survey his rich and diverse career and include familiar icons such as On the Balcony 1955-57, Self-Portrait with Badges 1961 and The Beatles 1963-68 alongside rarely seen works. It will conclude with the Marcel Duchamp World Tour, a project which has occupied the artist for the last decade.
Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde
To coincide with Liverpool’s 800th anniversary celebrations, this major exhibition investigates how the city has influenced and inspired a diverse range of important post-war artists. Centre of the Creative Universe, which takes its title from a statement by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, explores how artists have contributed to an external view of Liverpool in people’s imaginations, and reveals, as well as challenges, myths of the creative scene in the city over the past four decades.
Feb 20 - Sep 9 2007
