This is the first major retrospective of Malevich’s art in thirty years, and the first one ever in the UK. It brings together over 100 works from collections in his native Russia and all across Europe and the US and gives a really comprehensive sense of his artistic achievement and development, allowing a good assessment […]
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Malevich: Revolutionary of Russian art @ Tate Modern
Posted by Simon on August 8, 2014
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/malevich-revolutionary-of-russian-art-tate-modern/
Franz West @ Tate Modern
Franz West (1947-2012) is best known for his unconventional objects and sculptures, installations and furniture work, which often require an involvement of the audience. This is a big exhibition, taking up no fewer than ten rooms at Tate Modern and the overwhelming impression you get is that West relished amateurishness, the cack-handed, graceless elevation of […]
Posted by Simon on May 21, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/franz-west-tate-modern/
Dorothea Tanning @ Tate Modern
This is the first large-scale exhibition of Dorothea Tanning’s work to be held in the UK for 25 years. It brings together 100 pieces from her seven-decade-long career (she lived to be an astonishing 101 years old, 1910 – 2012) across a range of media, including oil paintings, pencil drawings, ‘soft’ sculptures, lithographs, a massive […]
Posted by Simon on March 24, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/03/24/dorothea-tanning-tate-modern/
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1962)
Sleep apart, the only time a prisoner lives for himself is ten minutes in the morning at breakfast, five minutes over dinner and five at supper. (p.17) It is the start of 1951 (p.36), some prisoners are discussing what will happen now that China has joined the Korean War, will there be a world war? […]
Posted by Simon on February 25, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich-alexander-solzhenitsyn/
The C C Land Exhibition: Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory @ Tate Modern
This is the first major UK exhibition of Pierre Bonnard’s work in 20 years. It brings together over 100 paintings, sketches and drawings, photos and some rare film footage of the great man, many being loans from galleries abroad so that, for fans, this is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to revel in Bonnard’s strange, entrancing art, […]
Posted by Simon on February 5, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/pierre-bonnard-the-colour-of-memory-tate-modern/
Christmas slugs @ Tate Britain
Monster Chetwynd is the pseudonym of Alalia Chetwynd, born in 1973, a British artist known for reworkings of iconic moments from cultural history in improvised performances. In 2012, she was nominated for the Turner Prize. In the past she has gone under the names of Spartacus Chetwynd and Marvin Gaye Chetwynd. (This immediately reminded me of […]
Posted by Simon on December 25, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/12/25/christmas-slugs-tate-britain/
Turner prize 2018 @ Tate Britain
The Turner Prize has been running since 1984. It is awarded annually to an artist born or based in Britain. Each year four artists are shortlisted by a jury for an outstanding exhibition or public presentation of their work in the previous year. This year, for the first time since its inception, all four finalists […]
Posted by Simon on December 22, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/12/22/turner-prize-2018-tate-britain/
