Tate Exhibitions – November 2008
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 catalogue
Runa Islam
First Day of Spring 2005
courtesy Jay Jopling / White Cube (London) © The artist
Exhibition
Turner Prize 2008
Tate Britain
Until 18 January 2009
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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Turner Prize 2008 shop
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.
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 catalogue and gifts
Cildo Meireles
Eureka / Blindhotland 1970–5
Tate © Cildo Meireles
Exhibition
Cildo Meireles
Tate Modern
Until 11 January 2009
Cildo Meireles is one of the leaders of 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. His objects and atmospheric installations from the late 1960s
onwards never fail to surprise, ranging in scale from tiny works to vast
installations covering 225m square. This major retrospective presents a
powerful and intriguing tour of his most memorable works.
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Cildo Meireles book
Supported by the Cildo Meireles Exhibition Supporters Group
With additional support from Galerie Lelong, New York; Galeria Luisa Strina
and The Henry Moore Foundation
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
TH.2058 2008
© Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Photo: Tate Photography
Exhibition
The Unilever Series: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Tate Modern
Until 13 April 2009
Free entry
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 books and posters
The Unilever Series: an annual art commission sponsored by Unilever
Spinoza in Las Vegas
NEWS
UBS Openings: Saturday Live Sturtevant: Spinoza in Las Vegas
Saturday 1 November 2008, 19.00
Sunday 2 November 2008, 15.00
Set in the fantasy world of Las Vegas, with its slot machines, dancing girls
and strip lights, this live work stages the adventures
Tate Modern premieres Spinoza in Las Vegas, a new theatre piece by American
artist Sturtevant, best-known for provocatively re-making works by artists
such as Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp.
The performance is followed by a lecture by artist and director Sturtevant
on Sunday 2 November.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
Opening up art
Tate Modern Collection with UBS
Late at Tate Britain
© Matt Stuart
NEWS
Late at Tate Britain
Friday 7 November 18.00 – 22.00
Discover the spaces and places of Tate Britain you didn’t know existed.
Visit the Tate Stores, explore the studios of Tate Conservation and take an
alternative tour of the Tate Collection. Don’t miss a free screening of
Losing Her, a short film shot in Tate Britain.
See Francis Bacon and the Turner Prize 2008 for half-price.
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David Altmejd
The Giant 2 2007
courtesy Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New
York © The artist
Exhibition
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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Heimo Zobernig, Installation view Neue Galerie, Graz 1993, © Archive HZ
Exhibition
Heimo Zobernig and the Tate
Collection
Tate St Ives
Until 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 at Tate St
Ives and the Tate Collection. Alongside his own works, the exhibition brings
together art from the 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.
All current Tate exhibitions
Tate Calendar
Visiting Tate
Credit for top image:
Runa Islam
First Day of Spring 2005
courtesy Jay Jopling / White Cube (London) © The artist
Inne:
- Political and Poetic Installations by Cildo Meireles on View at Tate Gallery in London
- Artists Included in Turner Prize Shortlist to Show Their Work at Tate Britain
- Tate St. Ives Presents Heimo Zobernig and the Tate Collection
- Tate Contemporary Bulletin October/November 2008
- Lucian Freud’s Portrait of Francis Bacon Sells for 5.4 Million Pounds at Christie’s
