Tate Contemporary Bulletin October/November 2008
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Turner Prize 2008
The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Liverpool Biennial: International Festival: MADE UP
The Status of Difference: Entangled Modernities
Art Now: Nashashibi/Skaer
Level 2 Gallery: Latifa Echakhch
Tate Britain Duveens Commission: Martin Creed
Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 3: Travels
The Curwen Studio: Paula Rego, Stanley Jones and Alan Powers in Conversation
Turner Prize 2008 >
Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries, Until 18 January
This year, the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize
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 to explore issues of femininity
See the exhibition before the winner is announced on 1 December.
Media Partner: The Guardian
Supported by the Tate Patrons
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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
The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: TH.2058 >
Until 13 April
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is the latest artist to create a commission for
The Unilever Series in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. For this new commission,
the French artist presents a vision of a post-apocalyptic world 50 years
into the future. Filling the vast space with recreations of sculptures by
artists including Louise Bourgeois and Claes Oldenburg, massive LED screens
playing edited extracts from science-fiction and experimental films and 200
bunk-beds scattered with books, Gonzalez-Foerster imagines a world where the
inhabitants of London take shelter in the Turbine Hall from a never-ending
rain.
The Unilever Series: an annual art commission sponsored by Unilever
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Séance de shadow II (bleu)1998
Tate © Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, courtesy Esther Schipper, Berlin
Liverpool Biennial: International Festival:
MADE UP >
Tate Liverpool, Until 30 November
Tate Liverpool is taking part in the UK’s largest festival of contemporary
art. This year, leading international artists have made new work responding
to the theme of ‘made up’. The Liverpool Biennial is one of the highlights
of the city’s year as European Capital of Culture, and it involves galleries
across Liverpool as well as many new commissions in surprising places.
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David Altmejd
The Giant 2 2007
courtesy Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New
York © The artist
The Status of Difference: Entangled Modernities
Wednesday 12 November, 18.30-20.00
Tate Britain, Auditorium
£7 (£5 concessions), booking recommended
Price includes drinks afterwards
How do cross-cultural perspectives modify the standard picture of
twentieth-century art? Writer and critic Kobena Mercer discusses this, and
presents ‘difference’ as a question of mutual entanglements among numerous
modernisms.
This discussion forms part of The Status of Difference, a major new series
from Tate Britain’s Cross-Cultural Programme. This year-long series presents
leading thinkers and practitioners as they discuss their visions about the
relevance of cultural difference in the visual arts landscape.
Part of The Status of Difference >
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Just what was it that made yesterday’s homes so different, so appealing?
1992
Tate © Richard Hamilton 2008. All rights reserved, DACS
Art Now: Nashashibi/Skaer >
Tate Britain, Opens 8 November, Until 4 January 2009
Alongside their individual art practices, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer
have been making collaborative works since 2005. Their two films Ambassador
2005 and Flash in the Metropolitan 2006 focus on the act of looking and the
transformative potential of film. Nashashibi and Skaer will be creating a
new installation for the Art Now space.
Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer
Pygmalion Workshop 2008
Installation view Neue Nationalgalerie Commissioned by Berlin Biennale
© courtesy the artists, doggerfish, Edinburgh and Store, London
Level 2 Gallery: Latifa Echakhch >
Tate Modern, Level 2 Gallery, Until 23 November
Latifa Echakhch creates sculptures and installations that explore the visual
and architectural codes of identity. She makes allusions to Islamic
geometric patterns and minimalism, colourfield painting, radical politics
and the bureaucracy of residency visas, examining how even the most banal
objects can be infused with cultural assumptions.
With thanks to the Institut Français for their support of this exhibition.
The Level 2 Gallery programme has been made possible with the generous
support of Catherine Petitgas
Latifa Echakhch
Erratum 2004
© The artist
Tate Britain Duveens Commission: Martin
Creed >
Tate Britain, Duveen Galleries, Until 16 November
Don’t miss the last few weeks of this fantastic exhibition. Work No. 850
centres on a simple idea: that a person will run as fast as they can every
thirty seconds through the gallery. Each run is followed by an equivalent
pause, like a musical rest, during which the grand Neoclassical gallery is
empty. This work celebrates physicality and the human spirit and Creed has
instructed the runners to sprint as if their lives depended on it.
Supported by Sotheby’s
Martin Creed
Work No. 850 2008
Tate Triennial 2009 Prologue 3: Travels >
Saturday 18 October
The third in the series of four Prologues leading up to the opening of the
Tate Triennial exhibition in February 2009, explores the theme of travel and
contemporary art.
For the first time in the history of mankind, there are no terrae
incognitae, no unknown lands. Satellite images have filled in the last voids
on the world map and this situation challenges today’s art. Artists organise
expeditions to the Antartic or the Amazon, searching for the unseen or the
unknown among the most hostile or remote areas on the globe.
This afternoon-long event includes screenings, talks and discussions by
artists Carsten Höller, John Smith and Zoran Naskovski.
Look out for details on Prologue 4: Borders happening in January 2009
John Smith: Hotel Diaries >
Saturday 18 October 2008, 14.00-15.30
Tate Britain, Clore Auditorium and Clore Foyer
Free. Seated on a first-come, first-served basis. Limited capacity.
Carsten Höller: Kinshasa Rumba Brazzaville >
Saturday 18 October 2008, 16.30-18.00, followed by drinks till 19.00
Tate Britain, Auditorium
£8 (£6 concessions), booking required
Price includes drinks afterwards
Book online
Zoran Naskovski: Death in Dallas >
Saturday 18 October 2008, 14.00-18.00
Tate Britain, Duffield Room
Free. Limited capacity.
Tate Triennial 2009 supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
John Smith Frozen War 2001 from the video series Hotel Diaries 2001-7
© courtesy the artist 2008
The Curwen Studio: Paula Rego, Stanley Jones and Alan Powers in Conversation
>
Wednesday 29 October, 18.30-20.00
Tate Britain, Auditorium
£7 (£5 concessions)
Price includes drinks afterwards
Since 1958 the Curwen Studio has enabled artists to explore the medium of
lithography. To coincide with the display in the Goodison Room celebrating
the Studio’s fiftieth anniversary, artist Paula Rego, Studio Co-Founder
Stanley Jones and Alan Powers, author of Art and Print: The Curwen Story,
reflect on the significant role and influence of the Studio.
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Howard Hodgkin
Untitled 1971
Tate © Howard Hodgkin
Other Links
There are many more events happening at all four Tate galleries. There is
also a searchable calendar, a central events & education directory and you
can buy tickets online for most London events.
Please follow the links below to find out more about events and courses,
schools events, family events, community and youth events.
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Credit for top image:Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer
Pygmalion Workshop 2008
Installation view Neue Nationalgalerie Commissioned by Berlin Biennale ©
courtesy the artists, doggerfish, Edinburgh and Store, London
Inne:
- Tate Exhibitions – November 2008
- The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Opens at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall
- Artists Included in Turner Prize Shortlist to Show Their Work at Tate Britain
- Virgin Name Train After Tate Liverpool in Honour of its 20th Anniversary
- Tate08 Series: William Blake – The River of Life
