Tate Exhibitions Bulletin – October 2008
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Exhibitions
October 2008
Late at Tate October
Rothko
Francis Bacon
Turner Prize 2008
Cildo Meireles
The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Liverpool Biennial: International Festival: MADE UP
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
1000 Artworks To See Before You Die
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Francis Bacon
Study of a Dog 1952
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NEWS
Late at Tate October
Tate Britain
Friday 3 October, 18.00 – 22.00
Inspired by the Francis Bacon retrospective, Late at Tate Britain transforms
the gallery with music, film, games and discussion. Explore the influences
and interests of this iconic painter; take a spin on the roulette wheel in
the casino, hear live sound design and music from Condiment Junkie and take
part in all-angles animation with Nexus Productions. Don’t miss a screening
of Essentials: Modernity and see the Francis Bacon exhibition for half
price.
With thanks to the Independent Cinema Office
Mark Rothko
Red on Maroon 1959
Tate © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko RS, NY and DACS,
London 2007
Exhibition
Rothko
Tate Modern
Until 1 February 2009
Tate Modern presents a stunning exhibition by one of the world’s most
respected and well-known artists, Mark Rothko. Tate Modern’s iconic ‘Rothko
Room’ paintings are reunited with works from Japan and the US in the first
significant exhibition of Rothko’s work in the UK for 20 years. The artist’s
beautiful paintings, composed of luminous, soft-edged rectangles and
saturated colour, are among the most enduring and mysterious created by an
artist in modern times.
To get to Tate Modern, start here. Visit here for door-to-door directions
and a free downloadable map.
Sponsored by Fujitsu Services
With additional support from Access Industries
With a donation from The Dedalus Foundation, New York
Media Partner: The Times
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Rothko shop
Francis Bacon
Triptych – August 1972 1972
Tate © Estate of Francis Bacon. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2008
Exhibition
Francis Bacon
Tate Britain
Until 4 January 2009
Book your tickets now for this astonishing exhibition of Bacon’s greatest
works. Bacon is one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century and
this unmissable show brings together the best and most important paintings
from throughout his turbulent life. Bacon is world-famous for his twisted
images of people and animals, often splattered with paint, displaying raw
emotion and considered to be some of the most powerful images in art.
Sponsored by Bank of America
Media Partner: The Observer
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Francis Bacon shop
Goshka Macuga
Objects in Relation 2007
Mask by Henry Moore reproduced by permission of The Henry Moore Foundation
courtesy Kate MacGarry, London © The artist. Photo: Sam Drake, Tate
Photography
Exhibition
Turner Prize 2008
Tate Britain
30 September – 18 January
Turner Prize 2008 opens this week and the four artists who have been
shortlisted are:
Runa Islam, known for her carefully choreographed films that are both
analytical and emotionally charged
Mark Leckey, who uses sculpture film sound and performance to communicate
his fascination with contemporary culture
Goshka Macuga, whose form of ‘cultural archaeology’ uses work by artists
past and present in new dramatic environments
Cathy Wilkes, who uses arrangements of commonplace objects and materials in
her sculptures explore issues of femininity
See the exhibition before the winner is announced on 1 December.
Media Partner: The Guardian
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Turner Prize 2008 shop
Cildo Meireles
Eureka / Blindhotland 1970–5
Tate © Cildo Meireles
Exhibition
Cildo Meireles
Tate Modern
14 October – 11 January
Cildo Meireles’s atmospheric installations never fail to surprise. As one of
the leaders in the international development of Conceptual art, this
Brazilian artist has made some of the most politically telling,
aesthetically seductive and philosophically intriguing works in recent art.
Ranging in scale from a tiny works to a vast installations, this exhibition
includes his celebrated Insertions into Ideological Circuits 1970, by which
he devised a method to disseminate messages of protest under the military
dictatorship in Brazil. This is Meireles’s first major retrospective in the
UK and it presents a powerful and fascinating tour of his most memorable
works.
Supported by the Cildo Meireles Exhibition Supporters Group
with additional support from The Henry Moore Foundation
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Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Séance de shadow II (bleu) 1998
Installation view “Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, P. Parreno, P. Huyghe “, ARC
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1998)
Tate © Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, courtesy Esther Schipper, Berlin
Exhibition
The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Tate Modern
14 October – 13 April
Admission free
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is the latest artist to create a commission for
The Unilever Series in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Widely regarded as on of
France’s leading contemporary artists, Gonzalez-Foerster creates highly
evocative and atmospheric art. Using light, sound, photography, film and
everyday objects, she constructs ‘environments’ in which the viewer is
invited to participate. Her work is inspired by literature, cinema and
science fiction and this is her first public commission in the UK.
The Unilever Series: an annual art commission sponsored by Unilever
© Tate
Exhibition
Liverpool Biennial: International Festival: MADE UP
Tate Liverpool
20 September – 30 November
Tate Liverpool takes part in the UK’s largest festival of contemporary art.
With leading international artists making new work in response to the theme
‘made up’, The Liverpool Biennial is a highlight of the city’s year as
European Capital of Culture. Involving galleries across Liverpool and new
commissions in surprising places, artists take historical or everyday
happenings as their starting point and through the creative process we are
taken on a journey towards the unreal that will leave you questioning what
is made up and what is reality.
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Heimo Zobernig. Ohne Title 1993-5, © The artist
Exhibition
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
Tate St Ives
4 October 2008 – 11 January 2009
Tate St Ives presents the first UK exhibition by Austrian artist Heimo
Zobernig. One of the most significant artists working in Europe today, the
display includes important works from the last 25 years, as well as new
works which intervene with both the architecture of the galleries of Tate St
Ives and the Tate Collection. Alongside his own works, the exhibition will
bring together art from Tate Collection as selected by the artist, including
works by Pablo Picasso, Carl Andre, Henry Moore, Oskar Kokoschka, Marcel
Duchamp and Kurt Schwitters.
Supported by the Henry Moore Foundation, Tate St Ives Members and Tate
Members with additional support from the Austrian Cultural Forum London.
NEWS
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Tate Calendar
Visiting Tate
Inne:
- Tate Exhibitions – November 2008
- The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Opens at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
- Tate Contemporary Bulletin October/November 2008
- Artists Included in Turner Prize Shortlist to Show Their Work at Tate Britain
- Political and Poetic Installations by Cildo Meireles on View at Tate Gallery in London
