BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1852@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20171117 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20180319 DTSTAMP:20171218T222046Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/tate-liverpool-john-piper/ SUMMARY:Tate Liverpool: Tate Liverpool: John Piper DESCRIPTION:\n\nSee John Piper’s work in a whole new light\, as we presen t a case for his role as a European\n\nJohn Piper\n\nTate Liverpool\n17 No vember 2017 – 18 March 2018 (press preview 16 November 2017)\n\n£10.0 0 / £8.00 (Includes entrance into Surrealism in Egypt: Art and Liberty 1 938 – 1948)\nTate Liverpool presents a major exhibition exploring the wo rk of the great British artist John Piper (1903–1992). Displaying more t han 40 works\, including paintings and collages\, it offers a new perspect ive on his powerfully sensitive depictions of his native land and cityscap es. The exhibition emphasises his relationship with major international ar tists\, revealing Piper’s pivotal influence on modern art in Britain fro m the 1930s onwards.\n\nWorking across an extraordinarily diverse range of artistic and cultural fields throughout his career\, Piper is renowned fo r his stained-glass window designs\, including his centrepiece commission for the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The exhibition marks the 50th an niversary of its consecration in 2017.\n\nPiper held profound affection fo r his native landscape\, expressed from the beginning of his career in wor ks quintessentially British in their subject matter and aesthetic. After b ecoming acquainted with Paris-based artists including Jean Arp and Georges Braque in the early 1930s\, his distinctive style evolved from representa tional art to embrace abstraction. The exhibition brings together painting s\, collages and reliefs that chart this transition. Works such as Beach with Starfish c.1933–4 present the familiar English seaside reimagined by the artist as a cubist-influenced paper collage.\n\nReflecting his role as champion of international abstract art in Britain\, promoted through h is role in the 7 &\; 5 Society and contributions to the pioneering abst ract art review Axis edited by his wife Myfanwy\, the exhibition features a small selection of works by major artists such as Alexander Calder (1898 –1976) and Jean Hélion (1904–1987) alongside those by Piper.\n\nYet t he exhibition also traces Piper’s deep understanding of and sensitivity to early native art forms including medieval stained glass windows and Ang lo-Saxon stone carving. The exhibition breaks new ground by displaying exa mples of these works\, including archaeological carving\, and bringing the m into dialogue with European modernism\, demonstrating how these were con nected and innovated in the work of John Piper.\n\nPiper is renowned for h is landscape and architectural compositions\, his practice extending into travel writing\, printmaking\, fabric design\, theatre sets and collaborat ions with choreographers and poets including Benjamin Britten and John Bet jeman. He was a major contributor to the artistic landscape of 20th-centur y Britain and left a profound imprint on British cultural life.\n\nJohn Pi per is curated by Darren Pih\, Exhibitions and Displays Curator with Tama r Hemmes\, Assistant Curator\, Tate Liverpool. It will be shown in paralle l with Surrealism in Egypt: Art and Liberty 1938 – 1948.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2017/02/john_piper_construction_1934_1967.jpg LOCATION:Tate Liverpool\, Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L3 4BB\, Liverpool\, Un ited Kingdom GEO:53.4003;-2.9927 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Albert Dock\, Liverpool\, L 3 4BB\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Tate Liverpo ol:geo:53.4003,-2.9927 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171029T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR